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CLI-Framework-0.03
River stage one • 4 direct dependents • 4 total dependents

Changes for version 0.03 - 2009-09-20

  • Corrected broken dependencies (Exception::Class)
  • Documentation improvements
    • refined existing documentation
    • added Tutorial
  • Concept of "session" replaced with the "cache" (which can hold data shared between separate components of a CLIF application)
  • Now supporting custom error handling capability (new handle_exception() hook)
  • Built-in command CLI::Framework::Command::Menu improved for better formatting
  • New features
    • inline declaration of CLIF subclasses (both Application and Command classes) is now supported (one file can contain everything)
    • new built-in command CLI::Framework::Command::Alias
  • ATTENTION: interface has changed! Most noteworthy changes follow...
  • REPLACED CLI::Framework::Application::is_valid_command() WITH is_valid_command_pkg() AND is_valid_command_name()
  • REMOVED CLI::Framework::Application::command_search_path() (no longer needed with the new command registration strategy)
  • CHANGED CLI::Framework::Application::get_registered_command_names() TO registered_command_names()
  • REMOVED CLI::Framework::Command::get_registered_command_names()
  • CHANGED CLI::Framework::Command::get_registered_command() TO registered_command_object()
  • CHANGED CLI::Framework::Command::get_registered_subcommand() TO registered_subcommand_object()
  • REMOVED CLI::Framework::Command::register_command()
  • ADDED CLI::Framework::Command::package_is_registered()
  • CHANGED CLI::Framework::Application::is_interactive() TO get_interactivity_mode()
  • CHANGED CLI::Framework::Command::Meta::app() changed TO get_app()
  • REPLACED CLI::Framework::Application::valid_commands() WITH CLI::Framework::Application::command_map() (a hash mapping command names to package names)
  • CLI::Framework::Application::run() now accepts param 'initialize'

Documentation

CLI::Framework::Tutorial
"HOWTO" develop CLIF applications using best practices

Modules

CLI::Framework::Application
Build standardized, flexible, testable command-line applications
CLI::Framework::Command
CLIF Command superclass
CLI::Framework::Command::Alias
CLIF built-in command to display the command aliases that are in effect for the running application and its commands
CLI::Framework::Command::Console
CLIF built-in command supporting interactive mode
CLI::Framework::Command::Dump
CLIF built-in command to show the internal state of a running application
CLI::Framework::Command::Help
CLIF built-in command to print application or command-specific usage messages
CLI::Framework::Command::List
CLIF built-in command to print a list of commands available to the running application
CLI::Framework::Command::Menu
CLIF built-in command to show a command menu including the commands that are available to the running application
CLI::Framework::Command::Meta
Represent "metacommands" (app-aware commands)
CLI::Framework::Command::Tree
CLIF built-in command to display a tree representation of the commands that are currently registered with the running application
CLI::Framework::Exceptions
Exceptions used by CLIF

Provides

CLI::Framework::Cache
in lib/CLI/Framework/Application.pm

Examples

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