Here's a little scratch tool I whipped up a few weeks ago. It's nothing esoteric, but it's saved me a bit of time both at work and at home, when considering how I want to arrange a new module, or more importantly, a set of interrelated modules.
As the name implies, this script accepts a simple text input that describes one or more modules, modeled in a very abbreviated Perl-like syntax. The input is line-oriented, but is somewhat forgiving of minor variations.
All it does is create the correct directories and makes stumps-- stubby implementations of the aforementioned module or modules. The template is very crude, but saves the labor of writing all the cursory comments, POD, and subs from scratch.# input is line-oriented, similar to the following example: package Foo::Bar - the package and summary to be created isa Foo; no This; use That qw(that); require The::Other; require "Yet/Another.pm"; ->new($arg); # returns a blessed hashref ->method($arg); # a normal object method ->property = $value; # a published property with accessor routine ->{property} = $value; # a private property without accessor
There's plenty of room for improvement and extension. One feature I didn't finish was to name various proposed tests, and have the stump script write the appropriate Test::* scripts alongside each boilerplate module.
For brevity and experimentation, I just published the script at http://www.halley.cc/ed/linux/scripts/stump - play with it or offer ideas.
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Re: STUMP - Simple Textual Unified Modeling in Perl
by adrianh (Chancellor) on May 21, 2003 at 07:54 UTC |