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-#!/usr/bin/env perl
-# Copyright [1999-2015] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
-# Copyright [2016-2018] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-
-=head1 NAME
-
-show_method_status.pl - script to print "Status" of API methods
-
-=head1 SYNOPSIS
-
-show_method_status.pl [arguments]
-
-Optional arguments:
-
- --path, --root=PATH directory root path to check (use absolute
- path or relative to cwd)
- --exclude=LIST don't show LISTed statuses
- --include=LIST only show LISTed statuses
- --show_empty, --show-empty, --empty print method name even if there's no
- status to report for it (only required
- when using --exclude or --include)
-
- --conffile, --conf=FILE read parameters from FILE
-
- --logfile, --log=FILE log to FILE (default: *STDOUT)
- --logpath=PATH write logfile to PATH (default: .)
- --logappend, --log_append append to logfile (default: truncate)
-
- -i, --interactive run script interactively (default: false)
- -h, --help, -? print help (this message)
-
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
-This script will print the "Status" documentation for each method in each perl
-module found in the directory specified by --path (recursively). Output can be
-limited to certain Statuses with the --exclude or --include options.
-
-=head1 EXAMPLES
-
-Show all methods which are 'At Risk':
-
- $ ./show_method_status.pl --path ../../modules/Bio/EnsEMBL --include 'at risk'
-
-Show all methods except those that are 'Stable':
-
- $ ./show_method_status.pl --path ../../modules/Bio/EnsEMBL --exclude 'stable'
-
-
-=head1 AUTHOR
-
-Patrick Meidl <meidl@ebi.ac.uk>, Ensembl core API team
-
-=head1 CONTACT
-
-Please post comments/questions to the Ensembl development list
-<http://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev>
-
-=cut
-
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-no warnings 'uninitialized';
-
-use FindBin qw($Bin);
-use Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::ConfParser;
-use Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Logger;
-use File::Find qw(find);
-use Cwd qw(getcwd abs_path);
-
-# parse configuration and commandline arguments
-my $conf = new Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::ConfParser(
- -SERVERROOT => "$Bin/../../..",
- -DEFAULT_CONF => ""
-);
-warn $Bin;
-
-$conf->parse_options(
- 'path|root=s' => 0,
- 'exclude=s@' => 0,
- 'include=s@' => 0,
- 'show_empty|show-empty|empty' => 0,
-);
-
-$conf->param('path', '.') unless $conf->param('path');
-
-# get log filehandle and print heading and parameters to logfile
-my $logger = new Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Logger(
- -LOGFILE => $conf->param('logfile'),
- -LOGPATH => $conf->param('logpath'),
- -LOGAPPEND => $conf->param('logappend'),
- -LOGLEVEL => $conf->param('loglevel'),
-);
-
-# initialise log
-$logger->init_log($conf->list_param_values);
-
-# recursively process all files
-my $path = $conf->param('path');
-$path = abs_path(getcwd."/$path") if ($path =~ /^\./);
-find(\&parse_files, $path);
-
-# finish logfile
-$logger->finish_log;
-
-
-### END main ###
-
-sub parse_files {
- my $file = $_;
-
- # only read perl modules
- return unless ($file =~ /\.pm$/);
-
- # read file
- open(IN, $file) or die "Unable to open $file: $!\n";;
-
- my $pod_flag;
- my $method;
- my $status;
- my $result;
-
- LINE:
- while (my $line = <IN>) {
- chomp $line;
-
- # start of method pod
- if ($line =~ /=head2 (.*)$/) {
-
- $method = sprintf("%-40s", $1);
- $pod_flag = 1;
-
- # status
- } elsif ($line =~ /Status\s*:\s*(.+)/) {
-
- $status = $1;
-
- # end of method pod
- } elsif ($line =~ /=cut/ and $pod_flag) {
-
- # set status to unknown if not found
- $status ||= 'unknown';
-
- # exclude specified statuses from output
- foreach my $pattern ($conf->param('exclude')) {
- next LINE if ($status =~ /$pattern/i);
- }
-
- # only include specified statuses in output
- foreach my $pattern ($conf->param('include')) {
- next LINE if ($pattern and !($status =~ /$pattern/i));
- }
-
- $result .= " $method $status\n";
-
- $status = undef;
- $pod_flag = 0;
-
- }
- }
-
- # log result for this module
- if ($result or $conf->param('show_empty')) {
- my $filepath = $File::Find::name;
- $filepath =~ s/$path\///;
- $logger->info("\n$filepath\n$result");
- }
-
-}
-