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package App::Rad::Help;
use Attribute::Handlers;
use strict;
use warnings;

our $VERSION = '0.03';

sub load {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;
    $c->register('help', \&help, 'show syntax and available commands');
}

# shows specific help commands
# TODO: context specific help, 
# such as "myapp.pl help command"
sub help {
    my $c = shift;
    return usage() . "\n\n" . helpstr($c);
}

sub usage {
    return "Usage: $0 command [arguments]";
}

sub helpstr {
    my $c = shift;
    
    my $string = "Available Commands:\n";

    # get length of largest command name
    my $len = 0;
    foreach ( sort $c->commands() ) {
        $len = length($_) if (length($_) > $len);
    }

    # format help string
    foreach ( sort $c->commands() ) {
        $string .= sprintf "    %-*s\t%s\n", $len, $_, 
                           defined ($c->{'_commands'}->{$_}->{'help'})
                           ? $c->{'_commands'}->{$_}->{'help'}
                           : ''
                           ;
                ;
    }
    return $string;
}
    

{
my %help_attr = ();
sub UNIVERSAL::Help :ATTR(CODE) {
     my ($package, $symbol, $ref, $attr, $data, $phase, $filename, $linenum) = @_;

    if ($package eq 'main') {
        # If data is a single word, it is received as an array ref. Don't ask.
        $data = join(' ', @$data) if ref($data) eq 'ARRAY';
        $help_attr{ *{$symbol}{NAME} } = $data;
    }
}

sub register_help {
    my ($self, $c, $cmd, $helptext) = @_;

    if ((not defined $helptext) && (defined $help_attr{$cmd})) {
        $helptext = $help_attr{$cmd};
    }

    # we do $helptext // undef as it would issue a warning otherwise
    $c->{'_commands'}->{$cmd}->{'help'} = defined $helptext
                                        ? $helptext
                                        : undef
                                        ;
}

}
42;
__END__

=head1 NAME

App::Rad::Help - 'help' command extension for App::Rad

=head1 VERSION

Version 0.02

=head1 SYNOPSIS

you can add inline help for your App::Rad commands via C<< $c->register() >> or C<< $c->register_commands() >>:

    use App::Rad;
    App::Rad->run();
    
    sub setup {
        my $c = shift;
        
        $c->register_commands( {
                foo => 'expand your foo!',
                bar => 'have a drink! arguments: --drink=DRINK',
            });
            
        $c->register('baz', \&baz, 'do your thing');
    }
    
you can also do it with the attribute 'Help' in your subs

    sub my_command :Help(this is my command) {
        ...
    }
    
    sub another_cmd
    :Help(yet another command)
    {
        ...
    }
    

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is an internal module for App::Rad and should not be used separately (unless, perhaps, you want to use one of its methods to customize your own 'help' command). Please refer to L<< App::Rad >> for further documentation.


=head1 INTERNAL METHODS

=head2 load

Loads the module into App::Rad

=head2 help

Show help text

=head2 register_help

Associates help text with command

=head2 usage

Prints usage string. Default is "Usage: $0 command [arguments]", where $0 is your program's name.

=head2 helpstr

Prints a help string with all available commands and their help description.

=head1 DEPENDENCIES

=over 4

=item * Attribute::Handlers, which is core as of Perl 5.8.

=back


=head1 AUTHOR

Breno G. de Oliveira, C<< <garu at cpan.org> >>


=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The attribute handling was *much* easened because of the nice C<< Attribute::Handlers >> module. So many thanks to Damian Conway, Rafael Garcia-Suarez and Steffen Mueller.


=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008 Breno G. de Oliveira C<< <garu at cpan.org> >>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself. See L<perlartistic>.



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