name

description

   $name = $command->name;
   $desc = $command->description;

Strings giving the short name (to be used on a commandline), and descriptive text for the command.

arguments

   @args = $command->arguments;

A (possibly-empty) list of argument metadata structures.

options

   %opts = $command->options;

A (possibly-empty) kvlist of option metadata structures.

package

   $pkg = $command->package;

The package name as a plain string.

code

   $sub = $command->code;

A CODE reference to the code actually implementing the command.

parse_invocation

Since version 0.12 this method has been moved to Commandable::Finder.

name

description

   $name = $argspec->name;
   $desc = $argspec->description;

Text strings for the user, used to generate the help text.

optional

   $bool = $argspec->optional;

If false, the option is mandatory and an error is raised if no value is provided for it. If true, it is optional and if absent an "undef" will passed instead.

slurpy

   $bool = $argspec->slurpy;

If true, the argument will be passed as an ARRAY reference containing the entire remaining list of tokens provided by the user.

name

   $name = $optspec->name;

A string giving the primary human-readable name of the option.

keyname

   $keyname = $optspec->keyname;

A string giving the name this option will be given in the options hash provided to the command subroutine. This is generated from the human-readable name, but hyphens are converted to underscores, to make it simpler to use as a hash key in Perl code.

names

   @names = $optspec->names;

A list containing the name plus all the aliases this option is known by.

description

   $desc = $optspec->description;

A text string containing information for the user, used to generate the help text.

mode

   $mode = $optspec->mode;

A string that describes the behaviour of the option.

"set" options do not expect a value to be suppled by the user, and will store a true value in the options hash if present.

"value" options take a value from the rest of the token, or the next token.

   --opt=value
   --opt value

"multi_value" options can be supplied more than once; values are pushed into an ARRAY reference which is passed in the options hash.

"inc" options may be supplied more than once; each occurance will increment the stored value by one.

default

   $val = $optspec->default;

A value to provide in the options hash if the user did not specify a different one.

negatable

   $bool = $optspec->negatable;

If true, also accept a "--no-OPT" option to reset the value of the option to "undef".

typespec

Since version 0.13 no longer supported.

matches

   $re = $optspec->matches;

If defined, gives a precompiled regexp that any user-supplied value must conform to.

A few shortcuts are provided, which are used if the provided name ends in "=i" (for "integer"), "=u" (for "unsigned integer", i.e. non-negative) or "=f" (for "float").