NAME

Command::Do - Simple Command-Line Interfaces

VERSION

version 0.120004

SYNOPSIS

in lib/YourCmd.pm

package YourCmd;

use Command::Do;

field name => {
    alias   => 'n',
    filters => ['trim', 'strip', 'titlecase'],
    default => 'Gorgeous'
};

command compliment => sub {
    my ($self, $options, $args) = @_;
    if ($self->validate('name')) {
        printf "You sure have a nice name, %s\n", $self->name;
    }
};

command sub {
    my ($self, $options, $args) = @_;
    print "Usage: $0 compliment --name=NAME\n";
};

in yourcmd:

use YourCmd;
YourCmd->new->execute;

and, finally, on the command line:

$ yourcmd
Usage: ./yourcmd compliment --name=NAME

$ yourcmd compliment
You sure have a nice name, Gorgeous

$ yourcmd compliment --name=handsome
You sure have a nice name, Handsome

$ yourcmd compliment -n=beautiful
You sure have a nice name, Beautiful

DESCRIPTION

Command::Do is a simple toolkit for building simple yet sophisticated command-line applications. It includes very little magic, executes quickly, and is useful when creating, validating, executing, and organizing command-line applications and actions. Command::Do inherits most of its functionality from Validation::Class which allows you to focus on and describe your command-line arguments and how they should be validated. Command::Do also uses Smart::Options for parsing command-line options. Command::Do is very unassuming as thus flexible. It does not impose a particular application configuration and its dependencies are trivial and easily fat-packed. Command::Do does not render usage-text or auto-validate arguments, it simply provides you with the tools to do so wrapped-up in a nice DSL.

The name Command::Do is meant to convey the idea, command-and-do, i.e., write a command and do something! It is also a play on the word commando which is defined as a soldier specially trained to carry out raids; In English, the term commando usually means a person in an elite light infantry and/or special operations unit, specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting, rappelling and similar techniques, to conduct and effect attacks ... which is how I like to think about the command-line scripts I author.

METHODS

command

The command method is used to register a coderef by name which may be automatically invoked by the execute method if it's name matching the first argument to the execute method. The command method ca be passed a coderef, or a name and coderef. The coderef, when executed will be passed an instance of the current class, a hashref of command-line options, and an arrayref of extra command-line arguments.

command name => sub {
    my ($self, $options, $arguments) = @_;
};

execute

The execute method is used to process the command-line request by parsing the options and arguments and finding a matching action/routine and executing it. The execute method can take a list of options/arguments but by default uses @ARGV.

my $self = YourCmd->new;
$self->execute;

AUTHOR

Al Newkirk anewkirk@ana.io

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Al Newkirk.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.