NAME

App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID - Information about the OSSP UUID library

SYNOPSIS

use App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID;

my $uuid = App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID->new;

if ($uuid->installed) {
    print "App name: ", $uuid->name, "\n";
    print "Version:  ", $uuid->version, "\n";
    print "Bin dir:  ", $uuid->bin_dir, "\n";
} else {
    print "Expat is not installed. :-(\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID supplies information about the OSSP UUID library installed on the local system. It implements all of the methods defined by App::Info::Lib. Methods that trigger events will trigger them only the first time they're called (See App::Info for documentation on handling events). To start over (after, say, someone has installed the OSSP UUID library) construct a new App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID object to aggregate new meta data.

Some of the methods trigger the same events. This is due to cross-calling of shared subroutines. However, any one event should be triggered no more than once. For example, although the info event "Executing `uuid-config --version`" is documented for the methods name() version(), major_version(), minor_version(), and patch_version(), rest assured that it will only be triggered once, by whichever of those four methods is called first.

INTERFACE

Constructor

new

my $expat = App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID->new(@params);

Returns an App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID object. See App::Info for a complete description of argument parameters.

When called, new() searches all of the paths returned by the search_lib_dirs() method for one of the files returned by the search_lib_names() method. If any of is found, then the OSSP UUID library is assumed to be installed. Otherwise, most of the object methods will return undef.

Events:

info: Looking for uuid-config
confirm: Path to uuid-config?
unknown: Path to uuid-config?

Class Method

key_name

my $key_name = App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID->key_name;

Returns the unique key name that describes this class. The value returned is the string "OSSP UUID".

Object Methods

installed

print "UUID is ", ($uuid->installed ? '' : 'not '), "installed.\n";

Returns true if the OSSP UUID library is installed, and false if it is not. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID determines whether the library is installed based on the presence or absence on the file system of the uuid-config application, searched for when new() constructed the object. If the OSSP UUID library does not appear to be installed, then most of the other object methods will return empty values.

name

my $name = $uuid->name;

Returns the name of the library. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID parses the name from the system call `uuid-config --version`.

Events:

info

Executing `uuid-config --version`

error

Failed to find OSSP UUID version with `uuid-config --version`

Unable to parse name from string

Unable to parse version from string

Failed to parse OSSP UUID version parts from string

unknown

Enter a valid OSSP UUID version number

version

my $version = $uuid->version;

Returns the OSSP UUID version number. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID parses the version number from the system call `uuid-config --version`.

Events:

info

Executing `uuid-config --version`

error

Failed to find OSSP UUID version with `uuid-config --version`

Unable to parse name from string

Unable to parse version from string

Failed to parse OSSP UUID version parts from string

unknown

Enter a valid OSSP UUID version number

major version

my $major_version = $uuid->major_version;

Returns the OSSP UUID library major version number. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID parses the major version number from the system call `uuid-config --version`. For example, if version() returns "1.3.0", then this method returns "1".

Events:

info

Executing `uuid-config --version`

error

Failed to find OSSP UUID version with `uuid-config --version`

Unable to parse name from string

Unable to parse version from string

Failed to parse OSSP UUID version parts from string

unknown

Enter a valid OSSP UUID major version number

minor version

my $minor_version = $uuid->minor_version;

Returns the OSSP UUID library minor version number. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID parses the minor version number from the system call `uuid-config --version`. For example, if version() returns "1.3.0", then this method returns "3".

Events:

info

Executing `uuid-config --version`

error

Failed to find OSSP UUID version with `uuid-config --version`

Unable to parse name from string

Unable to parse version from string

Failed to parse OSSP UUID version parts from string

unknown

Enter a valid OSSP UUID minor version number

patch version

my $patch_version = $uuid->patch_version;

Returns the OSSP UUID library patch version number. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID parses the patch version number from the system call `uuid-config --version`. For example, if version() returns "1.3.0", then this method returns "0".

Events:

info

Executing `uuid-config --version`

error

Failed to find OSSP UUID version with `uuid-config --version`

Unable to parse name from string

Unable to parse version from string

Failed to parse OSSP UUID version parts from string

unknown

Enter a valid OSSP UUID minor version number

executable

my $exe = $uuid->executable;

Returns the full path to the OSSP UUID executable, which is named uuid. This method does not use the executable names returned by search_exe_names(); those executable names are used to search for uuid-config only (in new()).

When it called, executable() checks for an executable named uuid in the directory returned by bin_dir().

Note that executable() is simply an alias for uuid().

Events:

info: Looking for uuid executable
confirm: Path to uuid executable?
unknown: Path to uuid executable?

bin_dir

my $bin_dir = $uuid->bin_dir;

Returns the OSSP UUID binary directory path. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID gathers the path from the system call `uuid-config --bindir`.

Events:

info: Executing `uuid-config --bindir`
error: Cannot find bin directory
unknown: Enter a valid OSSP UUID bin directory

inc_dir

my $inc_dir = $uuid->inc_dir;

Returns the OSSP UUID include directory path. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID gathers the path from the system call `uuid-config --includedir`.

Events:

info: Executing `uuid-config --includedir`
error: Cannot find include directory
unknown: Enter a valid OSSP UUID include directory

lib_dir

my $lib_dir = $uuid->lib_dir;

Returns the OSSP UUID library directory path. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID gathers the path from the system call `uuid-config --libdir`.

Events:

info: Executing `uuid-config --libdir`
error: Cannot find library directory
unknown: Enter a valid OSSP UUID library directory

so_lib_dir

my $so_lib_dir = $uuid->so_lib_dir;

Returns the OSSP UUID shared object library directory path. This is actually just an alias for lib_dir().

Events:

info: Executing `uuid-config --libdir`
error: Cannot find library directory
unknown: Enter a valid OSSP UUID library directory

cflags

my $configure = $uuid->cflags;

Returns the C flags used when compiling the OSSP UUID library. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID gathers the configure data from the system call `uuid-config --cflags`.

Events:

info: Executing `uuid-config --configure`
error: Cannot find configure information
unknown: Enter OSSP UUID configuration options

ldflags

my $configure = $uuid->ldflags;

Returns the LD flags used when compiling the OSSP UUID library. App::Info::Lib::OSSPUUID gathers the configure data from the system call `uuid-config --ldflags`.

Events:

info: Executing `uuid-config --configure`
error: Cannot find configure information
unknown: Enter OSSP UUID configuration options

perl_module

my $bool = $uuid->perl_module;

Return true if OSSP::uuid is installed and can be loaded, and false if not. OSSP::uuid must be able to be loaded by the currently running instance of the Perl interpreter.

Events:

info: Loading OSSP::uuid

home_url

my $home_url = $uuid->home_url;

Returns the OSSP UUID home page URL.

download_url

my $download_url = $uuid->download_url;

Returns the OSSP UUID download URL.

search_exe_names

my @search_exe_names = $app->search_exe_names;

Returns a list of possible names for uuid-config executable. By default, only uuid-config is returned (or uuid-config.exe on Win32).

Note that this method is not used to search for the OSSP UUID server executable, only uuid-config.

search_bin_dirs

my @search_bin_dirs = $app->search_bin_dirs;

Returns a list of possible directories in which to search an executable. Used by the new() constructor to find an executable to execute and collect application info. The found directory will also be returned by the bin_dir method.

The list of directories by default consists of the path as defined by File::Spec->path, as well as the following directories:

/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/bin
C:\Program Files\uid\bin

Other Executable Methods

These methods function just like the executable() method, except that they return different executables. OSSP UUID comes with a fair number of them; we provide these methods to provide a path to a subset of them. Each method, when called, checks for an executable in the directory returned by bin_dir(). The name of the executable must be one of the names returned by the corresponding search_*_names method.

The available executable methods are:

uuid
uuid_config

And the corresponding search names methods are:

search_postgres_names
search_createdb_names

Events:

info: Looking for executable
confirm: Path to executable?
unknown: Path to executable?

SUPPORT

This module is stored in an open GitHub repository. Feel free to fork and contribute!

Please file bug reports via GitHub Issues or by sending mail to bug-App-Info@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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

To install App::Info, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm App::Info

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::Info

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

INTERFACE

Constructor

new

Class Method

key_name

Object Methods

installed

name

version

major version

minor version

patch version

executable

bin_dir

inc_dir

lib_dir

so_lib_dir

cflags

ldflags

perl_module

home_url

download_url

search_exe_names

search_bin_dirs

Other Executable Methods

SUPPORT

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