NAME

MooseX::App::Meta::Role::Class::Base - Meta class role for application base class

DESCRIPTION

This meta class role will automatically be applied to the application base class. This documentation is only of interest if you intend to write plugins for MooseX-App.

ACCESSORS

app_messageclass

Message class for generating error messages. Defaults to MooseX::App::Message::Block. The default can be overwritten by altering the _build_app_messageclass method. Defaults to MooseX::App::Message::Block

app_namespace

Usually MooseX::App will take the package name of the base class as the namespace for commands. This namespace can be changed.

app_base

Usually MooseX::App will take the name of the calling wrapper script to construct the programm name in various help messages. This name can be changed via the app_base accessor. Defaults to the base name of $0

app_fuzzy

Boolean flag that controlls if command names and attributes should be matched exactly or fuzzy. Defaults to true.

app_command_name

Coderef attribute that controlls how package names are translated to command names and attributes. Defaults to &MooseX::App::Utils::class_to_command

app_commands

Hashref with command to command class map.

app_strict

Boolean flag that controls if an application with superfluous/unknown positional parameters should terminate with an error message or not. If disabled all extra parameters will be copied to the extra_argv command class attribute.

app_prefer_commandline

By default, arguments passed to new_with_command and new_with_options have a higher priority than the command line options. This boolean flag will give the command line an higher priority.

METHODS

command_register

$self->command_register($command_moniker,$command_class);

Registers an additional command

command_get

my $command_class = $self->command_register($command_moniker);

Returns a command class for the given command moniker

command_class_to_command

my $command_moniker = $meta->command_class_to_command($command_class);

Returns the command moniker for the given command class.

command_message

my $message = $meta->command_message( 
   header  => $header, 
   type    => 'error', 
   body    => $message
);

Generates a message object (using the class from app_messageclass)

command_usage_attributes

my @attributes = $meta->command_usage_attributes($metaclass);

Returns a list of attributes/command options for the given meta class.

command_usage_command

my @messages = $meta->command_usage_command($command_metaclass);

Returns a list of messages containing the documentation for a given command meta class.

command_usage_description

my $message = $meta->command_usage_description($command_metaclass);

Returns a messages with the basic command description.

command_usage_global

my @messages = $meta->command_usage_global();

Returns a list of messages containing the documentation for the application.

command_usage_header

my $message = $meta->command_usage_header();
my $message = $meta->command_usage_header($command_meta_class);

Returns a message containing the basic usage documentation

command_find

my @commands = $meta->command_find($user_command_input);

Returns a list of command names matching the user input

command_candidates

my $commands = $meta->command_candidates($user_command_input);

Returns either a single command or an arrayref of possibly matching commands.

command_proto

my ($result,$errors) = $meta->command_proto($command_meta_class);

Returns all parsed options (as hashref) and erros (as arrayref) for the proto command. Is a wrapper around command_parse_options.

command_args

my ($options,$errors) = $self->command_args($command_meta_class);

Returns all parsed options (as hashref) and erros (as arrayref) for the main command. Is a wrapper around command_parse_options.

command_parse_options

my ($options,$errors) = $self->command_parse_options(\@attribute_metaclasses);

Tries to parse the selected attributes from @ARGV.

command_check_attribute

my ($error) = $self->command_check_attribute($attribute_meta_class,$value);

Checks if a value is valid for the given attribute. Returns a message object if a validation error occurs.

command_type_constraint_description

my ($description) = $self->command_type_constraint_description($type_constraint);

Returns a human-readable type constraint description.

command_process_attributes

my @attributes = $self->command_process_attributes($metaclass,[qw(option proto)]);
my @attributes = $self->command_process_attributes($metaclass,'parameter');

Returns a list of all attributes with the given type

command_usage_options

my $usage = $self->command_usage_options($metaclass,$headline);

Returns the options usage as a message object

command_usage_parameters

my $usage = $self->command_usage_parameters($metaclass,$headline);

Returns the positional parameters usage as a message object