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GFUJI / MouseX-Getopt-0.36 / README.md

SYNOPSIS

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

with 'MouseX::Getopt';

has 'out' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
has 'in'  => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1);

# ... rest of the class here

## in your script
#!/usr/bin/perl

use My::App;

my $app = My::App->new_with_options();
# ... rest of the script here

## on the command line
% perl my_app_script.pl -in file.input -out file.dump

DESCRIPTION

This is a role which provides an alternate constructor for creating objects using parameters passed in from the command line.

This module attempts to DWIM as much as possible with the command line params by introspecting your class's attributes. It will use the name of your attribute as the command line option, and if there is a type constraint defined, it will configure Getopt::Long to handle the option accordingly.

You can use the trait MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait or the attribute metaclass MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute to get non-default commandline option names and aliases.

You can use the trait MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait::NoGetopt or the attribute metaclass MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::NoGetopt to have MouseX::Getopt ignore your attribute in the commandline options.

By default, attributes which start with an underscore are not given commandline argument support, unless the attribute's metaclass is set to MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute. If you don't want your accessors to have the leading underscore in their name, you can do this:

# for read/write attributes
has '_foo' => (accessor => 'foo', ...);

# or for read-only attributes
has '_bar' => (reader => 'bar', ...);

This will mean that Getopt will not handle a --foo param, but your code can still call the foo method.

If your class also uses a configfile-loading role based on MouseX::ConfigFromFile, such as MouseX::SimpleConfig, MouseX::Getopt's new_with_options will load the configfile specified by the --configfile option (or the default you've given for the configfile attribute) for you.

Options specified in multiple places follow the following precedence order: commandline overrides configfile, which overrides explicit new_with_options parameters.

Supported Type Constraints

Custom Type Constraints

It is possible to create custom type constraint to option spec mappings if you need them. The process is fairly simple (but a little verbose maybe). First you create a custom subtype, like so:

subtype 'ArrayOfInts'
    => as 'ArrayRef'
    => where { scalar (grep { looks_like_number($_) } @$_)  };

Then you register the mapping, like so:

MouseX::Getopt::OptionTypeMap->add_option_type_to_map(
    'ArrayOfInts' => '=i@'
);

Now any attribute declarations using this type constraint will get the custom option spec. So that, this:

has 'nums' => (
    is      => 'ro',
    isa     => 'ArrayOfInts',
    default => sub { [0] }
);

Will translate to the following on the command line:

% my_script.pl --nums 5 --nums 88 --nums 199

This example is fairly trivial, but more complex validations are easily possible with a little creativity. The trick is balancing the type constraint validations with the Getopt::Long validations.

Better examples are certainly welcome :)

Inferred Type Constraints

If you define a custom subtype which is a subtype of one of the standard "Supported Type Constraints" above, and do not explicitly provide custom support as in "Custom Type Constraints" above, MouseX::Getopt will treat it like the parent type for Getopt purposes.

For example, if you had the same custom ArrayOfInts subtype from the examples above, but did not add a new custom option type for it to the OptionTypeMap, it would be treated just like a normal ArrayRef type for Getopt purposes (that is, =s@).

AUTHORS

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

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