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>NAME</a></h1>

<p>Footprintless::App::Action - A base class for actions</p>

<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="VERSION"
>VERSION</a></h1>

<p>version 1.27</p>

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name="FUNCTIONS"
>FUNCTIONS</a></h1>

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>abstract($self_or_class)</a></h2>

<p>Returns the abstract for the action.
By default it will pull it from the <code>ABSTRACT</code> section of the pod.
This function should be called using <i>method invokation</i>.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="description($self_or_class)"
>description($self_or_class)</a></h2>

<p>Returns the description for the action.
By default it will pull it from the <code>DESCRIPTION</code> section of the pod.
This function should be called using <i>method invokation</i>.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="opt_spec()"
>opt_spec()</a></h2>

<p>Returns an options specificatino for this action according to <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Getopt%3A%3ALong%3A%3ADescriptive" class="podlinkpod"
>Getopt::Long::Descriptive</a>.</p>

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name="prepare($class,_$app,_$footprintless,_$coordinate,_@args)"
>prepare($class,
$app,
$footprintless,
$coordinate,
@args)</a></h2>

<p>Processes <code>@args</code> to parse off the options,
then generates a new instance of the action implementation and returns the 3-tuple: action,
options,
remaining args.
See <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?App%3A%3ACmd%3A%3ACommand%3A%3Aprepare" class="podlinkpod"
>App::Cmd::Command::prepare</a> for inspiration.</p>

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name="METHODS"
>METHODS</a></h1>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="execute($opts,_$args)"
>execute($opts,
$args)</a></h2>

<p>Executes the action.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="usage()"
>usage()</a></h2>

<p>Returns the usage object from <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Getopt%3A%3ALong%3A%3ADescriptive" class="podlinkpod"
>Getopt::Long::Descriptive</a> for the action.</p>

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name="usage_error($message,_$coordinate)"
>usage_error($message,
$coordinate)</a></h2>

<p>Die&#39;s with a generated message based on <code>$message</code> and <code>$coordinate</code>.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="usage_desc()"
>usage_desc()</a></h2>

<p>Returns the top level usage line.
See <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?App%3A%3ACmd%3A%3ACommand%3A%3Ausage_desc" class="podlinkpod"
>App::Cmd::Command::usage_desc</a> for inspiration.</p>

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name="validate_args($opts,_$args)"
>validate_args($opts,
$args)</a></h2>

<p>Performs additional validation on <code>$opts</code> and <code>$args</code>.
Calls <a href="#usage_error(%24message%2C_%24coordinate)" class="podlinkpod"
>&#34;usage_error($message,
$coordinate)&#34;</a> if there is a problem.</p>

<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="AUTHOR"
>AUTHOR</a></h1>

<p>Lucas Theisen &#60;lucastheisen@pastdev.com&#62;</p>

<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="COPYRIGHT_AND_LICENSE"
>COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE</a></h1>

<p>This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Lucas Theisen.</p>

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

<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="SEE_ALSO"
>SEE ALSO</a></h1>

<p>Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Footprintless" class="podlinkpod"
>Footprintless</a></li>

<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Footprintless%3A%3AApp%3A%3ADocumentationUtil" class="podlinkpod"
>Footprintless::App::DocumentationUtil</a></li>
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