1MouseX::Getopt(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation MouseX::Getopt(3pm)
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6 ## In your class
7 package My::App;
8 use Mouse;
9 with 'MouseX::Getopt';
11 has 'out' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
13 has 'in' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
14 # ... rest of the class here
16 ## in your script
18 #!/usr/bin/perl
19 use My::App;
21 my $app = My::App->new_with_options();
23 # ... rest of the script here
24 ## on the command line
26 % perl my_app_script.pl -in file.input -out file.dump
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29 This is a role which provides an alternate constructor for creating
30 objects using parameters passed in from the command line.
31 This module attempts to DWIM as much as possible with the command line
33 params by introspecting your class's attributes. It will use the name
34 of your attribute as the command line option, and if there is a type
35 constraint defined, it will configure Getopt::Long to handle the option
36 accordingly.
37 You can use the trait MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait or the
39 attribute metaclass MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute to get non-default
40 commandline option names and aliases.
41 You can use the trait MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::Trait::NoGetopt
43 or the attribute metaclass MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute::NoGetopt to
44 have "MouseX::Getopt" ignore your attribute in the commandline options.
45 By default, attributes which start with an underscore are not given
47 commandline argument support, unless the attribute's metaclass is set
48 to MouseX::Getopt::Meta::Attribute. If you don't want your accessors to
49 have the leading underscore in their name, you can do this:
50 # for read/write attributes
52 has '_foo' => (accessor => 'foo', ...);
53 # or for read-only attributes
55 has '_bar' => (reader => 'bar', ...);
56 This will mean that Getopt will not handle a --foo param, but your code
58 can still call the "foo" method.
59 If your class also uses a configfile-loading role based on
61 MouseX::ConfigFromFile, such as MouseX::SimpleConfig, MouseX::Getopt's
62 "new_with_options" will load the configfile specified by the
63 "--configfile" option (or the default you've given for the configfile
64 attribute) for you.
65 Options specified in multiple places follow the following precedence
67 order: commandline overrides configfile, which overrides explicit
68 new_with_options parameters.
69 Supported Type Constraints
71 Bool
72 A Bool type constraint is set up as a boolean option with
73 Getopt::Long. So that this attribute description:
74 has 'verbose' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool');
76 would translate into "verbose!" as a Getopt::Long option
78 descriptor, which would enable the following command line options:
79 % my_script.pl --verbose
81 % my_script.pl --noverbose
82 Int, Float, Str
84 These type constraints are set up as properly typed options with
85 Getopt::Long, using the "=i", "=f" and "=s" modifiers as
86 appropriate.
87 ArrayRef
89 An ArrayRef type constraint is set up as a multiple value option in
90 Getopt::Long. So that this attribute description:
91 has 'include' => (
93 is => 'rw',
94 isa => 'ArrayRef',
95 default => sub { [] }
96 );
97 would translate into "includes=s@" as a Getopt::Long option
99 descriptor, which would enable the following command line options:
100 % my_script.pl --include /usr/lib --include /usr/local/lib
102 HashRef
104 A HashRef type constraint is set up as a hash value option in
105 Getopt::Long. So that this attribute description:
106 has 'define' => (
108 is => 'rw',
109 isa => 'HashRef',
110 default => sub { {} }
111 );
112 would translate into "define=s%" as a Getopt::Long option
114 descriptor, which would enable the following command line options:
115 % my_script.pl --define os=linux --define vendor=debian
117 Custom Type Constraints
119 It is possible to create custom type constraint to option spec mappings
120 if you need them. The process is fairly simple (but a little verbose
121 maybe). First you create a custom subtype, like so:
122 subtype 'ArrayOfInts'
124 => as 'ArrayRef'
125 => where { scalar (grep { looks_like_number($_) } @$_) };
126 Then you register the mapping, like so:
128 MouseX::Getopt::OptionTypeMap->add_option_type_to_map(
130 'ArrayOfInts' => '=i@'
131 );
132 Now any attribute declarations using this type constraint will get the
134 custom option spec. So that, this:
135 has 'nums' => (
137 is => 'ro',
138 isa => 'ArrayOfInts',
139 default => sub { [0] }
140 );
141 Will translate to the following on the command line:
143 % my_script.pl --nums 5 --nums 88 --nums 199
145 This example is fairly trivial, but more complex validations are easily
147 possible with a little creativity. The trick is balancing the type
148 constraint validations with the Getopt::Long validations.
149 Better examples are certainly welcome :)
151 Inferred Type Constraints
153 If you define a custom subtype which is a subtype of one of the
154 standard "Supported Type Constraints" above, and do not explicitly
155 provide custom support as in "Custom Type Constraints" above,
156 MouseX::Getopt will treat it like the parent type for Getopt purposes.
157 For example, if you had the same custom "ArrayOfInts" subtype from the
159 examples above, but did not add a new custom option type for it to the
160 "OptionTypeMap", it would be treated just like a normal "ArrayRef" type
161 for Getopt purposes (that is, "=s@").
162 new_with_options (%params)
164 This method will take a set of default %params and then collect
165 params from the command line (possibly overriding those in %params)
166 and then return a newly constructed object.
167 The special parameter "argv", if specified should point to an array
169 reference with an array to use instead of @ARGV.
170 If "GetOptions" in Getopt::Long fails (due to invalid arguments),
172 "new_with_options" will throw an exception.
173 If Getopt::Long::Descriptive is installed and any of the following
175 command line params are passed, the program will exit with usage
176 information (and the option's state will be stored in the help_flag
177 attribute). You can add descriptions for each option by including a
178 documentation option for each attribute to document.
179 --?
181 --help
182 --usage
183 If you have Getopt::Long::Descriptive the "usage" param is also
185 passed to "new" as the usage option.
186 ARGV
188 This accessor contains a reference to a copy of the @ARGV array as
189 it originally existed at the time of "new_with_options".
190 extra_argv
192 This accessor contains an arrayref of leftover @ARGV elements that
193 Getopt::Long did not parse. Note that the real @ARGV is left un-
194 mangled.
195 usage
197 This accessor contains the Getopt::Long::Descriptive::Usage object
198 (if Getopt::Long::Descriptive is used).
199 help_flag
201 This accessor contains the boolean state of the --help, --usage and
202 --? options (true if any of these options were passed on the
203 command line).
204 meta
206 This returns the role meta object.
207
209 NAKAGAWA Masaki <masaki@cpan.org>
210 FUJI Goro <gfuji@cpan.org>
211 Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>
212 Brandon L. Black <blblack@gmail.com>
213 Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
214 Ryan D Johnson <ryan@innerfence.com>
215 Drew Taylor <drew@drewtaylor.com>
216 Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
217 Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
218 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
219 Avar Arnfjord Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
220 Chris Prather <perigrin@cpan.org>
221 Mark Gardner <mjgardner@cpan.org>
222 Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom@cpan.org>
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225 This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
226 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
228 the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
229perl v5.36.0 2023-01-20 MouseX::Getopt(3pm)