NAME

Bread::Runner - run ALL the apps via Bread::Board

VERSION

version 0.905

SYNOPSIS

# Define the components of your app in a Bread::Board
container 'YourProduct' => as {
    container 'App' => as {
        service 'api.psgi' => (
            # ...
        );
        service 'some_script' => (
            # ...
        )
    };
};

# Write one generic wrapper script to run all your services
# bin/generic_runner.pl
use Bread::Runner;
Bread::Runner->run('YourProduct');

# Symlink this generic runner to filenames matchin your services
ln -s bin/generic_runner.pl bin/api.psgi
ln -s bin/generic_runner.pl bin/some_script

# Never write a wrapper script again!

DESCRIPTION

Bread::Runner provides an easy way to re-use your Bread::Board to run all your scripts via a simple and unified method.

This of course only makes sense for big-ish apps which consist of more than just one script. But in my experience this is true for all apps, as you will need countless helper scripts, importer, exporter, cron-jobs, fixups etc.

If you still keep the code of your scripts in your scripts, I strongly encourage you to join us in the 21st century and move all your code into proper classes and replace your scripts by thin wrappers that call those classes. And if you use Bread::Runner, you'll only need one wrapper (though you can have as many as you like, as TIMTOWTDI)

Real-Live Example

TODO

Guessing the service name from $0

TODO

METHODS

run

Bread::Runner->run('YourProduct', \%opts);

Bread::Runner->run('YourProduct', {
    service => 'some_script.pl'
});

Initialize your Bread::Board, find the correct service, initialize the service, and then run it!

setup

my ($bread_board, $service) = Bread::Runner->_setup( 'YourProduct',  \%opts );

Initialize and compose your Bread::Board and find and initialize the correct service.

Usually you will just call run, but maybe you want to do something fancy..

OPTIONS

setup and run take the following options as a hashref

service

Default: $0 modulo some cleanup magic, see "Guessing the service name from $0"

The name of the service to use.

If you do not want to use this magic, pass in the explicit service name you want to use. This could be hardcoded, or you could come up with an alternative implementation to get the service name from the environment available to a generic wrapper script.

container

Default: "App"

The name of the Bread::Board container containing your services.

init_method

Default: "init"

The name of the method in the class implementing your Bread::Board that will return the topmost container.

run_method

Default: ["run"]

An arrayref of names of potential methods call in your services to make them do their job.

Useful for running legacy classes via Bread::Runner.

pre_run

A subref to be called just before run is called.

Gets the following things as a list in this order

• the Bread::Board container
• the initiated service
• the opts hashref (so you can pass on more stuff from your wrapper)

You could use this hook to do some further initialisation, setup etc that might not be doable in Bread::Board itself.

post_run

A subref to be called just after run is called.

Gets the same stuff like pre_run.

Could be used for cleanup etc.

no_startup_logmessage

Set this to a true value to prevent the startup log message.

THANKS

Thanks to

• validad.com for supporting Open Source.
• Klaus Ita for feedback & input during initial in-house development

AUTHOR

Thomas Klausner domm@plix.at

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 - 2021 by Thomas Klausner.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.