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NAME

loadanalysisdb - Critique a body of code and load the results into a database for later processing.

USAGE

    loadanalysisdb path [...]

DESCRIPTION

Scan a body of code and, rather than emit the results in a textual format, put them into a database so that analyses can be made.

This example doesn't put anything into the database that isn't available from Perl::Critic::Violation in order to keep the code easier to understand. In a full application of the idea presented here, one might want to include the current date and a distribution name in the database so that progress on cleaning up a code corpus can be tracked.

Note the explanation attribute of Perl::Critic::Violation is constant for most policies, but some of them do provide more specific diagnostics of the code in question.

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

A list of paths to files and directories to find code in.

OPTIONS

None.

DIAGNOSTICS

Errors from DBI.

EXIT STATUS

0

CONFIGURATION

None.

DEPENDENCIES

Perl::Critic DBD::SQLite Perl6::Say Readonly

An SQLite database named "perl_critic_analysis.sqlite" with the following schema:

  CREATE TABLE violation (
      file_path     VARCHAR(1024),
      line_number   INTEGER,
      column_number INTEGER,
      severity      INTEGER,
      policy        VARCHAR(512),
      explanation   TEXT,
      source_code   TEXT
  )

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

This is an example program and thus does minimal error handling.

AUTHOR

Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006-2011, Elliot Shank.

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

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