NAME

App::tracepm - Trace dependencies of your Perl script

VERSION

This document describes version 0.10 of App::tracepm (from Perl distribution App-tracepm), released on 2014-12-05.

SYNOPSIS

This distribution provides command-line utility called tracepm.

FUNCTIONS

tracepm(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• args => array

  Script arguments.

• cache_prereqscanner => bool (default: 0)

  Whether cache Perl::PrereqScanner{,::Lite} result.

• core => bool

  Filter only modules that are in core.

• detail => bool (default: 0)

  Whether to return records instead of just module names.

• method => str (default: "fatpacker")

  Tracing method to use.

  There are several tracing methods that can be used:

  • fatpacker (the default): This method uses the same method that fatpacker trace uses, which is running the script using perl -c then collect the populated %INC. Only modules loaded during compile time are detected.

  • require: This method runs your script normally until it exits. At the start of program, it replaces CORE::GLOBAL::require() with a routine that logs the require() argument to the log file. Modules loaded during runtime is also logged by this method. But some modules might not work, specifically modules that also overrides require() (there should be only a handful of modules that do this though).

  • prereqscanner: This method does not run your Perl program, but statically analyze it using Perl::PrereqScanner. Since it uses PPI, it can be rather slow.

  • prereqscanner_recurse: Like prereqscanner, but will recurse into all non-core modules until they are exhausted. Modules that are not found will be skipped. It is recommended to use the various recurse_exclude_* options options to limit recursion.

  • prereqscanner_lite: This method is like the prereqscanner method, but instead of Perl::PrereqScanner it uses Perl::PrereqScanner::Lite. The latter does not use PPI but use Compiler::Lexer which is significantly faster.

  • prereqscanner_lite_recurse: Like prereqscanner_lite, but recurses.

• perl_version => str

  Perl version, defaults to current running version.

  This is for determining which module is core (the list differs from version to version. See Module::CoreList for more details.

• recurse_exclude => array

  When recursing, exclude some modules.

• recurse_exclude_core => bool

  When recursing, exclude core modules.

• recurse_exclude_pattern => array

  When recursing, exclude some module patterns.

• recurse_exclude_xs => bool

  When recursing, exclude XS modules.

• script* => str

  Path to script file (script to be packed).

• use => array

  Additional modules to "use".

  This is like running:

   perl -MModule1 -MModule2 script.pl

• xs => bool

  Filter only modules that are XS modules.

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.

 (any)

TODO

• 'use' args not yet respected if 'method' =~ /prereqscanner/

• Option to silent STDOUT and/or STDERR output of script.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-tracepm.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-tracepm.

BUGS

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

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) 2014 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.