App::Cmd::Setup(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation App::Cmd::Setup(3)NAMEApp::Cmd::Setup - helper for setting up App::Cmd classes
VERSION
version 0.311
OVERVIEWApp::Cmd::Setup is a helper library, used to set up base classes that
will be used as part of an App::Cmd program. For the most part you
should refer to the tutorial for how you should use this library.
This class is useful in three scenarios:
when writing your App::Cmd subclass
Instead of writing:
package MyApp;
use base 'App::Cmd';
...you can write:
package MyApp;
use App::Cmd::Setup -app;
The benefits of doing this are mostly minor, and relate to sanity-
checking your class. The significant benefit is that this form
allows you to specify plugins, as in:
package MyApp;
use App::Cmd::Setup-app => { plugins => [ 'Prompt' ] };
Plugins are described in App::Cmd::Tutorial and App::Cmd::Plugin.
when writing abstract base classes for commands
That is: when you write a subclass of App::Cmd::Command that is
intended for other commands to use as their base class, you should
use App::Cmd::Setup. For example, if you want all the commands in
MyApp to inherit from MyApp::Command, you may want to write that
package like this:
package MyApp::Command;
use App::Cmd::Setup -command;
Do not confuse this with the way you will write specific commands:
package MyApp::Command::mycmd;
use MyApp -command;
Again, this form mostly performs some validation and setup behind
the scenes for you. You can use "base" if you prefer.
when writing App::Cmd plugins
App::Cmd::Plugin is a mechanism that allows an App::Cmd class to
inject code into all its command classes, providing them with
utility routines.
To write a plugin, you must use App::Cmd::Setup. As seen above,
you must also use App::Cmd::Setup to set up your App::Cmd subclass
if you wish to consume plugins.
For more information on writing plugins, see App::Cmd::Manual and
App::Cmd::Plugin.
AUTHOR
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 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.
perl v5.14.1 2011-03-18 App::Cmd::Setup(3)
