NAME

Perinci::CmdLine::Easy - A simple interface to run a subroutine as command-line app

VERSION

version 0.72

SYNOPSIS

In your command-line script (e.g. named list-cpan-dists):

 use JSON qw(decode_json);
 use LWP::Simple;
 use Perinci::CmdLine::Easy qw(run_cmdline_app);
 run_cmdline_app(
     summary => "List CPAN distributions that belong to an author",
     sub     => sub {
         my $cpanid = shift or die "Please supply CPAN ID\n";
         my $res = get "http://api.metacpan.org/v0/release/_search?q=author:".
             uc($cpanid)."%20AND%20status:latest&fields=name&size=5000"
             or die "Can't query MetaCPAN";
         $res = $json->decode($res);
         die "MetaCPAN timed out\n" if $res->{timed_out};
         my @dists;
         for my $hit (@{ $res->{hits}{hits} }) {
             my $dist = $hit->{fields}{name};
             $dist =~ s/-\d.+//;
             push @dists, $dist;
         }
         \@dists;
     },
     argv    => [qw/cpanid*/],
 );

To run this program:

 % list-cpan-dists --help ;# display help message
 % LANG=id_ID list-cpan-dists --help ;# display help message in Indonesian
 % list-cpan-dists SHARYANTO

To do bash tab completion:

 % complete -C list-cpan-dists list-cpan-dists
 % list-cpan-dists <tab> ;# completes to --help, --version, --cpanid, etc
 % list-cpan-dists --c<tab> ;# completes to --cpanid

DESCRIPTION

Perinci::CmdLine::Easy provides an easier alternative to Perinci::CmdLine. You do not need to know any Rinci or Riap concepts, or provide your own metadata. Just supply the subroutine, summary, list of arguments, and you're good to go. Of course, if you need more customization, there's Perinci::CmdLine.

What you'll get:

• Command-line options parsing

• Help message (supports translation)

• Tab completion for bash

• Formatting of output (supports complex data structure)

• Logging

SEE ALSO

Perinci::CmdLine

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Steven Haryanto.

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

FUNCTIONS

run_cmdline_app() -> any

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.