NAME App::metasyn - Alternative front-end to Acme::MetaSyntactic VERSION This document describes version 0.008 of App::metasyn (from Perl distribution App-metasyn), released on 2021-06-26. SYNOPSIS Use the included script metasyn. FUNCTIONS metasyn Usage: metasyn(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta] Alternative front-end to Acme::MetaSyntactic. Examples: * List all names from the default theme, foo: metasyn(); Result: [ 200, "OK", [ "foo", "bar", "baz", "foobar", # ...snipped 37 lines for brevity... "weide", "does", "hok", "duif", "schapen", ], {}, ] * Return a single random name from the default theme (equivalent to: "meta"): metasyn(number => 1, shuffle => 1); # -> [200, "OK", ["mies"], {}] * List all names from a theme: metasyn(theme => "christmas"); Result: [ 200, "OK", [ "bushy", "evergreen", "shinny", "upatree", # ...snipped 59 lines for brevity... "mcsnowballs", "mcicicles", "mcblizzard", "mcsparkles", "mcsnowflakes", ], {}, ] * List all names from a category of a theme in random order, return only 3 (equivalent to: "meta christmas/elf 3"): metasyn(theme => "christmas/elf", number => 3, shuffle => 1); Result: [200, "OK", ["bushy", "pepper", "sugarplum"], {}] * Return a single random name from a theme (equivalent to: "meta christmas"): metasyn(theme => "christmas", number => 1, shuffle => 1); # -> [200, "OK", ["twinkle"], {}] * Return a single random name from a random theme: metasyn(number => 1, random_theme => 1, shuffle => 1); # -> [200, "OK", ["sxga"], {}] * List all installed themes (equivalent to: "meta --themes"): metasyn(action => "list-themes"); Result: [ 200, "OK", [ "abba", "afke", "alice", "alphabet", # ...snipped 136 lines for brevity... "viclones", "wales_towns", "weekdays", "yapc", "zodiac", ], {}, ] * List 3 random themes (equivalent to: "meta --themes | shuf | head -n3"): metasyn(action => "list-themes", number => 3, shuffle => 1); Result: [200, "OK", ["foo", "christmas", "simpsons"], {}] * List all installed themes, along with all their categories: metasyn(action => "list-themes", categories => 1); Result: [ 200, "OK", [ "abba", "afke", "alice", "alphabet/en", # ...snipped 2221 lines for brevity... "zodiac/Chinese", "zodiac/Vedic", "zodiac/Western", "zodiac/Western/Real", "zodiac/Western/Traditional", ], {}, ] * List all categories from a theme: metasyn(theme => "christmas", categories => 1); Result: [200, "OK", ["elf", "reindeer", "santa", "snowman"], {}] * List 2 categories from a theme, in random order: metasyn(theme => "christmas", categories => 1, number => 2, shuffle => 1); Result: [200, "OK", ["reindeer", "snowman"], {}] This script is an alternative front-end for Acme::MetaSyntactic. Compared to the official CLI meta, this CLI currently does not retrieve themes/names remotely but: * provides shell completion (but see App::ShellCompleter::meta to add tab completion for the official CLI); * provides an option to shuffle list of themes/categories/names returned; * makes it easy to print all names in a theme; * makes it easy to print all (or some) categories in a theme. This CLI is more geared towards listing all themes/names/categories instead of picking random ones. This function is not exported. Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments): * action => *str* (default: "list-names") * categories => *true* * number => *posint* Limit only return this number of results. * random_theme => *true* * shuffle => *true* * theme => *str* Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata. Return value: (any) HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. AUTHOR perlancar COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2021, 2019, 2017 by perlancar@cpan.org. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.