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NAME

Sah::Schema::pathname - Filesystem path name

VERSION

This document describes version 0.016 of Sah::Schema::pathname (from Perl distribution Sah-Schemas-Path), released on 2021-07-17.

SYNOPSIS

To check data against this schema (requires Data::Sah):

 use Data::Sah qw(gen_validator);
 my $validator = gen_validator("pathname*");
 say $validator->($data) ? "valid" : "INVALID!";

 # Data::Sah can also create validator that returns nice error message string
 # and/or coerced value. Data::Sah can even create validator that targets other
 # language, like JavaScript. All from the same schema. See its documentation
 # for more details.

To validate function parameters against this schema (requires Params::Sah):

 use Params::Sah qw(gen_validator);

 sub myfunc {
     my @args = @_;
     state $validator = gen_validator("pathname*");
     $validator->(\@args);
     ...
 }

To specify schema in Rinci function metadata and use the metadata with Perinci::CmdLine to create a CLI:

 # in lib/MyApp.pm
 package MyApp;
 our %SPEC;
 $SPEC{myfunc} = {
     v => 1.1,
     summary => 'Routine to do blah ...',
     args => {
         arg1 => {
             summary => 'The blah blah argument',
             schema => ['pathname*'],
         },
         ...
     },
 };
 sub myfunc {
     my %args = @_;
     ...
 }
 1;

 # in myapp.pl
 package main;
 use Perinci::CmdLine::Any;
 Perinci::CmdLine::Any->new(url=>'MyApp::myfunc')->run;

 # in command-line
 % ./myapp.pl --help
 myapp - Routine to do blah ...
 ...

 % ./myapp.pl --version

 % ./myapp.pl --arg1 ...

Sample data:

 ""  # INVALID

 "foo"  # valid

 "foo/bar"  # valid

DESCRIPTION

This schema is basically string with some checks and prefilters. Why use this schema instead of plain ol' str? Mainly to give you the ability to change tilde to user's home directory, e.g. ~/foo into /home/someuser/foo. Normally this expansion is done by a Unix shell, but sometimes your program receives an unexpanded path, e.g. when you get it from some config file.

See also more OS-specific schemas like pathname::unix, which adds some more checks (e.g. pathname cannot contain forward slash and each component cannot be longer than 255 characters) and preprocessing (e.g. stripping extraneous slashes like foo//bar into foo/bar.

What's the difference between this schema and filename and dirname? The default completion rule. This schema's completion by default includes files as well as directories.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Sah-Schemas-Path.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Sah-Schemas-Path.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sah-Schemas-Path

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016 by perlancar@cpan.org.

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