Revision history for Getopt::Pad

0.06    2026-10-07
        - Add processValue to option and arg specs: a coderef called
          with the level's result object and each value it was set to,
          whose return value replaces it, e.g. to wrap a path in an
          object
        - Add the date and duration types: natural language parsed by
          DateTime::Format::Natural (now a recommended module) into
          DateTime and DateTime::Duration objects, in the zone of the
          new timezone key (default: local)
        - New example for the date and duration types
        - Spec errors about an option or arg of a command name the
          command, and an unknown option type names the option or arg
        - An odd number of GetOptions arguments is a spec error
          (GetOptions expects key/value pairs) instead of Perl's own
          signature message
        - An uncaught spec error always exits with status 255, whatever
          $! held
        - croak is no longer a reserved reader name
        - registerType and registerFormat load a module file only for a
          class that is not defined yet, so a class defined in the
          script without NAMES gets the NAMES message
        - The help output lists every name of an option, the primary
          name first, as typed: --owner, -o. Help and command line
          errors write a single-letter name with one dash (-v)
        - The help output and --create-default-config show defaults as
          the spec wrote them for every type, so a custom type's
          coerced value no longer leaks into them. The presentsAsGiven
          type method is gone again
        - Args show [has to exist] and [created if missing] in the help
        - An empty list or mapping default shows no Default line
        - An objectlist index with a leading zero (00.host) is an error,
          and a large index no longer allocates a list up to it before
          the gap below it is reported
        - A float value too large for a Perl number (1e999) is rejected
          as not finite instead of reading as Inf
        - An int value outside Perl's integer range is rejected as too
          large instead of reading as a rounded float or Inf
        - Add bigint to int options and args: the reader returns a
          Math::BigInt, so integers of any size are kept exactly. JSON
          config files hand large integers over unrounded
        - mustExist is checked only on the path a parse settles on: a
          default missing on the user's machine is no longer a spec
          error, and is a user error only when the parse uses it
        - A path of the wrong kind is reported as 'PATH' is not a file
          (or directory) instead of as missing
        - createPathIfMissing creates nothing until every value of
          every selected level passed its checks
        - Add the verify type method for checks that depend on the
          machine; it runs on the values of every selected level before
          any prepare
        - --create-default-config leaves out options whose default is
          undef, so the file it writes loads back
        - An empty config file, or a YAML file with only comments, sets
          nothing instead of being an error
        - JSON true and false reach non-boolean options as plain 1 and
          0, as from YAML, not as JSON::PP::Boolean objects
        - Errors in the structure of a config file are shown with the
          help of the command the user ran, like every other error
        - Command line words are decoded from UTF-8 like config file
          values, unless decoded already (perl -CA) or not valid UTF-8.
          The help, error messages and completion candidates are printed
          as UTF-8 unless the handle has an encoding layer. Non-ASCII
          strings in a spec need use utf8 to match
        - The bash completion script works with bash 3.2, the system
          bash of macOS

0.05    2026-10-05
        - Require Object::Pad 0.818: class methods with a signature fail
          on older versions (GitHub issue #1)

0.04    2026-09-26
        - Config files set the options of every command level: the
          commands key of a level's section holds one section per
          command, nested like the commands. Every section is validated
          on every run, the values only on the levels the command line
          selects. The autoload chain merges option by option per level
        - --create-default-config writes the defaults of every level
        - Add inherit to option specs: on a level with commands, the
          option is also accepted after the command word on every level
          below and read from the declaring level. Given on several
          levels, it combines as if repeated on one
        - --config and --create-default-config are inherited, so they
          work after the command word. No level may declare an option
          of either name when the spec has a config block
        - With a config block, a level with commands may not have a
          group named commands
        - Rewrite the documentation. Getopt::Pad is a complete reference
          with a list of all messages. Getopt::Pad::Tutorial and
          Getopt::Pad::Cookbook are new. The contracts for custom types
          and config formats are documented in Getopt::Pad::Type and
          Getopt::Pad::Config::Format
        - New examples for value shapes, config files and value checks

0.03    2026-09-24
        - Add hash options: with hash => 1 an option takes --name key=value
          pairs and its reader returns a hashref. Every value passes the
          usual checks. Help shows the key=value syntax and completion
          fills in the value behind the typed key
        - Absent multiple options and slurpy args now read as an empty
          arrayref, an absent hash option as an empty hashref
        - Add csv => 1 for multiple options: every given value is split
          at commas, the items are trimmed and an empty item is rejected
        - Add typehint to option and arg specs: the tag rendered after
          the help text in place of the type's own label
        - Add objectlist options: with objectlist => 1 an option takes
          --name INDEX.FIELD=VALUE words and its reader returns a list of
          hashrefs. The indices must form 0..n-1
        - Add createPathIfMissing to the file and dir types: the path is
          created, parents included, once the parse settles on it
        - --create-default-config writes LF line endings on every platform
          and refuses a symlink target on Windows as well, where O_EXCL
          follows a dangling link
        - Tests pass on Windows

0.02    2026-09-23
        - Fix the release target packing build artefacts (blib/) into the
          tarball, which stopped PAUSE from indexing 0.01
        - Declare all modules in the META "provides" map
        - Add the missing $VERSION to Getopt::Pad::Type::Url

0.01    2026-09-23
        - Initial development release: typed options, positional args,
          nested subcommands, config files, generated help
        - Shell completion for bash and zsh via --create-completions;
          a valid coderef now returns the allowed list, lazyValid holds
          the predicate form