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author | Dylan William Hardison <dylan@hardison.net> | 2017-07-21 21:03:16 +0200 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-07-21 21:03:16 +0200 |
commit | 87fed0b46b4b7868f0c15a9f6fb7a4291b4bbc1f (patch) | |
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better defaults for re.pl
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index c1f3f8bfe..5db4c9954 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ BMO is Mozilla's highly customized version of Bugzilla. 1.1 Setup Vagrant VMs 1.2 Making Changes and Seeing them 1.3 Technical Details + 1.4 Perl Shell (re.pl, repl) 2 Docker Container 2.1 Container Arguments 2.2 Environmental Variables @@ -95,6 +96,55 @@ configured to use memcached. The push connector is not currently configured, nor is the Pulse publisher. +Perl Shell (re.pl, repl) +------------------------ + +Installed on the vagrant vm is also a program called re.pl. + +re.pl an interactive perl shell (somtimes called a REPL (short for Read-Eval-Print-Loop)). +It loads Bugzilla.pm and you can call Bugzilla internal API methods from it, an example session is reproduced below: + +.. code-block:: plain + + re.pl + $ my $product = Bugzilla::Product->new({name => "Firefox"}); + Took 0.0262260437011719 seconds. + + $Bugzilla_Product1 = Bugzilla::Product=HASH(0x7e3c950); + + $ $product->name + Took 0.000483036041259766 seconds. + + Firefox + +It supports tab completion for file names, method names and so on. For more information see `Devel::REPL`_. + +You can use the 'p' command (provided by `Data::Printer`_) to inspect variables as well. + +.. code-block:: plain + + $ p @INC + [ + [0] ".", + [1] "lib", + [2] "local/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi", + [3] "local/lib/perl5", + [4] "/home/vagrant/perl/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi", + [5] "/home/vagrant/perl/lib/perl5", + [6] "/vagrant/local/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi", + [7] "/vagrant/local/lib/perl5", + [8] "/usr/local/lib64/perl5", + [9] "/usr/local/share/perl5", + [10] "/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl", + [11] "/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl", + [12] "/usr/lib64/perl5", + [13] "/usr/share/perl5", + [14] sub { ... } + ] + +.. _`Devel::REPL`: https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::REPL +.. _`Data::Printer`: https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Printer + Docker Container ================ |