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NAME

SVK::Command - Base class and dispatcher for SVK commands

SYNOPSIS

    use SVK::Command;
    my $xd = SVK::XD->new ( ... );
    my $cmd = 'checkout';
    my @args = qw( file1 file2 );
    open my $output_fh, '>', 'svk.log' or die $!;
    SVK::Command->invoke ($xd, $cmd, $output_fh, @args);

DESCRIPTION

This module resolves alias for commands and dispatches them, usually with the invoke method. If the command invocation is incorrect, usage information is displayed instead.

METHODS

Class Methods

new ($xd)

Base constructor for all commands.

get_cmd ($cmd, $xd)

Load the command subclass specified in $cmd, and return a new instance of it, populated with $xd. Command aliases are handled here.

To construct a command object from another command object, use the command instance method instead.

invoke ($xd, $cmd, $output_fh, @args)

Takes a SVK::XD object, the command name, the output scalar reference, and the arguments for the command. The command name is translated with the %alias map.

On Win32, after @args is parsed for named options, the remaining positional arguments are expanded for shell globbing with bsd_glob.

getopt ($argv, %opt)

Takes a arrayref of argv for run getopt for the command, with additional %opt getopt options.

Instance Methods

SVK::Command->invoke loads the corresponding class SVK::Command::$name, so that's the class you want to implement the following methods in:

options ()

Returns a hash where the keys are Getopt::Long specs and the values are a string that will be the keys storing the parsed option in $self.

Subclasses should override this to add their own options. Defaults to an empty list.

opt_recursive

Defines if the command needs the recursive flag and its default. The value will be stored in recursive.

parse_arg (@args)

This method is called with the remaining arguments after parsing named options with options above. It should use the arg_* methods to return a list of parsed arguments for the command's lock and run method to process. Defaults to return a single undef.

lock (@parse_args)

Calls the lock_* methods to lock the SVK::XD object. The arguments will be what is returned from parse_arg.

run (@parsed_args)

Actually process the command. The arguments will be what is returned from parse_arg.

Returned undef on success. Return a string message to notify the caller errors.

Utility Methods

Except for arg_depotname, all arg_* methods below returns a SVK::Target object, which consists of a hash with the following keys:

cinfo
copath
depotpath
path
repos
repospath
report
targets

The hashes are handy to pass to many other functions.

arg_condensed (@args)

Argument is a number of checkout paths.

arg_uri_maybe ($arg)

Argument might be a URI or a depotpath. If it is a URI, try to find it at or under one of currently mirrored paths. If not found, prompts the user to mirror and sync it.

arg_co_maybe ($arg)

Argument might be a checkout path or a depotpath. If argument is URI then handles it via arg_uri_maybe.

arg_copath ($arg)

Argument is a checkout path.

arg_depotpath ($arg)

Argument is a depotpath, including the slashes and depot name.

arg_depotroot ($arg)

Argument is a depot root, or a checkout path that needs to be resolved into a depot root.

arg_depotname ($arg)

Argument is a name of depot. such as '' or 'test' that is being used normally between two slashes.

arg_path ($arg)

Argument is a plain path in the filesystem.

parse_revlist ()

Parse -c or -r to a list of [from, to] pairs.

lock_target ($target)

XXX Undocumented

brief_usage ($file)

Display an one-line brief usage of the command object. Optionally, a file could be given to extract the usage from the POD.

usage ($want_detail)

Display usage. If $want_detail is true, the DESCRIPTION section is displayed as well.

Error Handling

handle_error ($error)

XXX Undocumented

add_handler ($error, $handler)

XXX Undocumented

msg_handler ($error, $message)

XXX Undocumented

command ($cmd, \%args)

Construct a command object of the $cmd subclass and return it.

The new object will share the xd from the calling command object; contents in %args is also assigned into the new object.

rebless ($cmd, \%args)

Like command above, but modifies the calling object instead of creating a new one. Useful for a command object to recast itself into another command class.

SEE ALSO

SVK, SVK::XD, SVK::Command::*

AUTHORS

Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003-2005 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.

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

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