NAME

MooseX::Getopt::Usage - Extend MooseX::Getopt with usage message and man page generated from attribute meta and POD.

VERSION

Version 0.12_01

SYNOPSIS

## In your class
package My::App;
use Moose;

with 'MooseX::Getopt::Usage',
     'MooseX::Getopt::Usage::Role::Man';

has verbose => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Bool', default => 0,
    documentation => qq{Say lots about what we are doing} );

has gumption => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', default => 23,
    documentation => qq{How much gumption to apply} );

# ... rest of class

## In your script
#!/usr/bin/perl
use My::App;
my $app = My::App->new_with_options;

Can now get help,

$ synopsis.pl -?
Usage:
    synopsis.pl [OPTIONS]

Options:
     --man             - Bool. Display man page
     --help -? --usage - Bool. Display the usage message and exit
     --verbose         - Bool. Say lots about what we are doing
     --gumption        - Int. Default=23. How much gumption to apply

trap errors with usage,

$ synopsis.pl --elbowgrease --gumption=Lots
Unknown option: elbowgrease
Value "Lots" invalid for option gumption (number expected)
Usage:
    synopsis.pl [OPTIONS]

Options:
     --man             - Bool. Display man page
     --help -? --usage - Bool. Display the usage message and exit
     --verbose         - Bool. Say lots about what we are doing
     --gumption        - Int. Default=23. How much gumption to apply

and get a man page:

$ synopsis.pl --man

DESCRIPTION

Perl Moose Role that extends MooseX::Getopt to provide usage printing and man page generation that inspects your classes meta information to build a (coloured) usage message including that meta information.

If STDOUT is a tty usage message is colourised. Setting the env var ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED will disable colour even on a tty.

The message is formatted to the width of the terminal when STDOUT is a tty, to a width of 72 characters otherwise.

Errors in command line option parsing will be displayed along with the usage, causing the program to exit with a non-zero status code when new_with_options is used.

The usage message can be extended and controlled by including sections selected from the modules POD, with the default to automatically generate SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS sections.

By also using the MooseX::Getopt::Usage::Role::Man role a --man option is added to your class that will display the man page generated from your modules POD documentation. This POD will include the generated SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS sections if they are selected.

This is all much inspired (and partly implemented) by the excellent Pod::Usage module, but with added Moose meta goodness.

ATTRIBUTES

help_flag

Indicates if any of -?, --help, or --usage where given in the command line args.

man

Added when using MooseX::Getopt::Usage::Role::Man. The --man option on the command line. If true after class construction program will exit displaying the man generated from the POD.

METHODS

new_with_options( %params )

The normal MooseX::Getopt entry point, over ridden here to add our own usage handling. If help_flag (-?, --help or --usage) is given in the options will display the usage message and exit.

If MooseX::Getopt::Usage::Role::Man (or man method exists that returns true) exits displaying the man page.

Traps errors from the command line processing, displaying them along with the usage message. Will also trap type constraint fails and missing required attribute errors from your classes constructor.

getopt_usage( %args )

Generate the usage message and return or output to stdout and exit. Used by new_with_options. Without exit arg returns the usage string, with an exit arg prints the usage to stdout and exits with the given exit code.

print $self->getopt_usage if $self->help_flag;

$self->getopt_usage( exit => 10, err => "Their all dead, Dave" );

$self->getopt_usage( man => 1 );

Options are printed required first, then optional. These two sections get a heading unless headings arg or config is false. Note that required attributes of your class that have a default or builder will be considered optional options.

%args can have any of the options from "CONFIGURATION", plus the following.

exit: If an exit arg is given and defined then this method will exit the program with that exit code after displaying usage to STDOUT.
err | error: Error message string to display before the usage. Will get the error highlight.
man: Display the man page instead of the usage message.

getopt_usage_config

Return a hash (ie a list) of config to override the defaults. Default returns empty list. See "CONFIGURATION" for details.

CONFIGURATION

The configuration used is the defaults, followed by the return from "getopt_usage_config", followed by any args passed direct to "getopt_usage". The easiest way to configure the usage message is to override "getopt_usage_config" in your class. e.g. to use a more compact layout.

use Moose;
with 'MooseX::Getopt::Usage';

sub getopt_usage_config {
   return (
       format   => "Usage: %c [OPTIONS]",
       headings => 0,
   );
}

Available config is:

format

String to format the usage/synopsis section of the usage message. %c is substituted for the command name. Use %% for a literal %.

If not set it will check the POD for "format_sections", using the POD selected if it is found. That defaults to the SYNOPSIS section, so the easy way to add your own usage section is to add a SYNOPSIS to your POD.

If no POD is found a default string of "%c [OPTIONS]" is used.

Note that when selecting POD the headings are removed.

format_sections

Pod sections to select for the usage format option. Default is SYNOPSIS. Value is an array ref of "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Select strings.

attr_sort

Sub ref used to sort the attributes and hence the order they appear in the usage message. Default is the order the attributes are defined.

NB: the sort terms ($a and $b) are passed as the first two arguments, do not use $a and $b (you will get warnings). The arguments will be Moose::Meta::Attributes. e.g. to sort by name alphabetically:

attr_sort => sub { $_[0]->name cmp $_[1]->name }

headings

Whether to add headings to the generated usage message. Headings will come from the sections selected. Default is true.

colors

Hash ref mapping highlight names to colours, given as strings to pass to Term::ANSIColor. Default looks like this:

colours   => {
    flag          => ['yellow'],
    heading       => ['bold'],
    command       => ['green'],
    type          => ['magenta'],
    default_value => ['cyan'],
    error         => ['red']
}

usage_sections

When generating a usage message the POD sections to select. Default is SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS sections (which will be auto generated from meta if they don't exist). Value is an array ref of "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Select strings.

Headings will be displayed, titled cased with a colon on the end. Use the "headings" option to hide the headings. Order displayed will be the same as the POD.

You can use this to expand the usage message. e.g. you might also want the DESCRIPTION and EXAMPLE from your POD in the usage message:

usage_sections => ['SYNOPSIS|USAGE|DESCRIPTION|EXAMPLES']

man_sections

When generating a man page the POD sections to select. Default is everything except ATTRIBUTES and METHODS (as we will generate an OPTIONS section instead of ATTRIBUTES and METHODS isn't relevant to command line users). Value is an array ref of "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Select strings.

Use an empty array to include all POD sections.

man_sections => [],

e.g. to exclude TODO, keeping the default excludes you could do:

man_sections => ["!ATTRIBUTES|METHODS","!TODO"],

or maybe you only want the NAME and DESCRIPTION (along with the generated SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS):

man_sections => ["NAME|DESCRIPTION"],

use_color

Whether to use color in the usage message. One of 'auto', 'never', 'always' or 'env'. Auto will use color if the output is a tty, otherwise not. 'env' looks at the ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED environment variable (see Term::ANSIColor). Note that the env is also read in auto mode.

unexpand

Set $Text::Wrap::unexpand, see "OVERRIDES" in Text::Wrap.

tabstop

Set $Text::Wrap::tabstop, see "OVERRIDES" in Text::Wrap.

POD GENERATION

Both the usage message and man page are generated by selecting sections (headings) from your modules POD documentation. It will auto generate both SYNOPSIS (usage) and OPTIONS sections if they do not exist, which means you still get a nice usage message (and basic man page) with no POD.

The SYNOPSIS, if not present, will just contain the default "format" message and is inserted after NAME or at the start of the POD. If present it is used as is, still getting %c etc substituted.

OPTIONS will generate a list of the options by examining your classes attributes. The section is inserted after DESCRIPTION or at the end of the file. If an OPTIONS section already exists the list of options will be appended to it, allowing you to add some extra documentation above the options.

All section selecting options are applied after POD generation so can be used to hide as well as include generated sections.

EXAMPLES

Expanding the usage message.

This adds the DESCRIPTION from the POD to the usage and changes the usage message to show it takes files.

Put this is a file called descusage.pl and make it executable.

#!/usr/bin/perl
package Foo;

use Moose;
with 'MooseX::Getopt::Usage';
with 'MooseX::Getopt::Usage::Role::Man';

sub getopt_usage_config {
    return ( usage_sections => ["SYNOPSIS|OPTIONS|DESCRIPTION"] );
}

=pod

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 %c [OPTIONS] FILES 

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Does amazing things with FILES.

=cut

package main;
Foo->new_with_options;

Then call to get usage:

$ descusage.pl -h
Usage:
     descusage.pl [OPTIONS] FILES

Description:
    Does amazing things with FILES.

Options:
     --help -? --usage - Bool. Display the usage message and exit
     --man             - Bool. Display man page

Not that the OPTIONS section gets automatically generated for us but we still need to select it in the usage_sections option if we want to see it.

Adding Options

Put this is a file called hello.pl and make it executable.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
package Hello;
use Modern::Perl;
use Moose;

with 'MooseX::Getopt::Usage';
with 'MooseX::Getopt::Usage::Role::Man';

has verbose => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Bool',
    documentation => qq{Say lots about what we do} );

has greet => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', default => "World",
    documentation => qq{Who to say hello to.} );

has times => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', required => 1,
    documentation => qq{How many times to say hello} );

sub run {
    my $self = shift;
    say "Printing message..." if $self->verbose;
    say "Hello " . $self->greet for (1..$self->times);
}

package main;
Hello->new_with_options->run;

Then call with any of these to get usage output.

$ ./hello.pl -?
$ ./hello.pl --help
$ ./hello.pl --usage

Which will look a bit like this, only in colour.

Usage:
    hello.pl [OPTIONS]

Options:
     Required:
         --times           - Int. How many times to say hello
     Optional:
         --help -? --usage - Bool. Display the usage message and exit
         --verbose         - Bool. Say lots about what we do
         --greet           - Str. Default=World. Who to say hello to.

BUGS

All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. Please report any bugs or feature requests via the github page at:

http://github.com/markpitchless/moosex-getopt-usage

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc MooseX::Getopt::Usage

The source code and other information is hosted on github: