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App-Cmd-0.331
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/ App::Cmd::Command

NAME

App::Cmd::Command - a base class for App::Cmd commands

VERSION

version 0.331

METHODS

prepare

  my ($cmd, $opt, $args) = $class->prepare($app, @args);

This method is the primary way in which App::Cmd::Command objects are built. Given the remaining command line arguments meant for the command, it returns the Command object, parsed options (as a hashref), and remaining arguments (as an arrayref).

In the usage above, $app is the App::Cmd object that is invoking the command.

new

This returns a new instance of the command plugin. Probably only prepare should use this.

execute

  $command_plugin->execute(\%opt, \@args);

This method does whatever it is the command should do! It is passed a hash reference of the parsed command-line options and an array reference of left over arguments.

If no execute method is defined, it will try to call run -- but it will warn about this behavior during testing, to remind you to fix the method name!

app

This method returns the App::Cmd object into which this command is plugged.

usage

This method returns the usage object for this command. (See Getopt::Long::Descriptive).

command_names

This method returns a list of command names handled by this plugin. The first item returned is the 'canonical' name of the command.

If this method is not overridden by an App::Cmd::Command subclass, it will return the last part of the plugin's package name, converted to lowercase. For example, YourApp::Cmd::Command::Init will, by default, handle the command "init".

Subclasses should generally get the superclass value of command_names and then append aliases.

usage_desc

This method should be overridden to provide a usage string. (This is the first argument passed to describe_options from Getopt::Long::Descriptive.)

If not overridden, it returns "%c COMMAND %o"; COMMAND is the first item in the result of the command_names method.

opt_spec

This method should be overridden to provide option specifications. (This is list of arguments passed to describe_options from Getopt::Long::Descriptive, after the first.)

If not overridden, it returns an empty list.

validate_args

  $command_plugin->validate_args(\%opt, \@args);

This method is passed a hashref of command line options (as processed by Getopt::Long::Descriptive) and an arrayref of leftover arguments. It may throw an exception (preferably by calling usage_error, below) if they are invalid, or it may do nothing to allow processing to continue.

usage_error

  $self->usage_error("This command must not be run by root!");

This method should be called to die with human-friendly usage output, during validate_args.

abstract

This method returns a short description of the command's purpose. If this method is not overridden, it will return the abstract from the module's Pod. If it can't find the abstract, it will look for a comment starting with "ABSTRACT:" like the ones used by Pod::Weaver::Section::Name.

description

This method can be overridden to provide full option description. It is used by the built-in help command.

If not overridden, it uses Pod::Usage to extract the description from the module's Pod DESCRIPTION section or the empty string.

AUTHOR

Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Ricardo Signes.

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