Option Handling and Moose

Further to my previous post on option handling in Perl. There is a rather useful Moose extension named MooseX::Getopt which allows the building of an object directly from a set of command line options. The class attributes are directly translated into an option profile for Getopt::Long. Here’s a simple example class:

package LCFG::Foo;
use Moose;

with 'MooseX::Getopt';

has 'logname' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Str' );

has 'quiet' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool', default => 0 );

no Moose;
1;

In the script you can then just do:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use LCFG::Foo;

my $foo = LCFG::Foo->new_with_options();

if ( !$foo->quiet) {
   print $foo->logname . "\n";
}

The script can then be called like:

my_script.pl --logname Changes --quiet

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