NAME

Meta::Pdmt::Shell - provide a shell to interact with PDMT.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Shell.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.01

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Pdmt::Shell qw();
my($object)=Meta::Pdmt::Shell->new();
my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This class which is a derviative of Meta::Shell::Shell is a shell for PDMT interaction.

You can do various things with it: 0. Inspect the pdmt graph. 1. Modify the pdmt graph. 2. Build various nodes. 3. Inspect last errors. And more...

FUNCTIONS

BEGIN()
pre($)
process($$)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This is a bootstrap method to create accessors for the following attributes: 0. graph - this is the underlying PDMT graph. 1. pdmt - this is the underlying PDMT object itself.

pre($)

This the "before running" override method. It currently sets up completion for PDMTs set of commands.

process($$)

This is the method which does all the real processing. See the documentation of Meta::Shell::Shell to understand it's role.

TEST($)

This is a testing suite for the Meta::Pdmt::Shell module. This test is should be run by a higher level management system at integration or release time or just as a regular routine to check that all is well.

Currently this test does nothing.

SUPER CLASSES

Meta::Shell::Shell(3)

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV teachers project
0.01 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Class::MethodMaker(3), Meta::Shell::Shell(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init