App::Info::Handler::Prompt - Prompting App::Info event handler

NAME

App::Info::Handler::Prompt - Prompting App::Info event handler

SYNOPSIS

  use App::Info::Category::FooApp;
  use App::Info::Handler::Print;
  my $prompter = App::Info::Handler::Print->new;
  my $app = App::Info::Category::FooApp->new( on_unknown => $prompter );
  # Or...
  my $app = App::Info::Category::FooApp->new( on_confirm => 'prompt' );

DESCRIPTION

App::Info::Handler::Prompt objects handle App::Info events by printing their messages to STDOUT and then accepting a new value from STDIN. The new value is validated by any callback supplied by the App::Info concrete subclass that triggered the event. If the value is valid, App::Info::Handler::Prompt assigns the new value to the event request. If it isn't it prints the error message associated with the event request, and then prompts for the data again.

Although designed with unknown and confirm events in mind, App::Info::Handler::Prompt handles info and error events as well. It will simply print info event messages to STDOUT and print error event messages to STDERR. For more interesting info and error event handling, see App::Info::Handler::Print and App::Info::Handler::Carp.

Upon loading, App::Info::Handler::Print registers itself with App::Info::Handler, setting up a single string, ``prompt'', that can be passed to an App::Info concrete subclass constructor. This string is a shortcut that tells App::Info how to create an App::Info::Handler::Print object for handling events.

INTERFACE

Constructor

new

  my $prompter = App::Info::Handler::Prompt->new;

Constructs a new App::Info::Handler::Prompt object and returns it. No special arguments are required.

BUGS

Report all bugs via the CPAN Request Tracker at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html.

AUTHOR

David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>

SEE ALSO

App::Info documents the event handling interface.

App::Info::Handler::Carp handles events by passing their messages Carp module functions.

App::Info::Handler::Print handles events by printing their messages to a file handle.

App::Info::Handler describes how to implement custom App::Info event handlers.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2002, David Wheeler. All Rights Reserved.

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

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