Provided by: libprogress-any-perl_0.220-1_all 
NAME
Progress::Any - Record progress to any output
VERSION
This document describes version 0.220 of Progress::Any (from Perl distribution Progress-Any), released on
2022-10-18.
SYNOPSIS
Example of using in a script with terminal progress bar as output (progress bar will be cleared on
"finish()") (you'll need to install Progress::Any::Output::TermProgressBarColor as well):
use Progress::Any '$progress';
use Progress::Any::Output 'TermProgressBarColor';
$progress->target(10);
for (1..10) {
$progress->update(message => "Doing item $_");
sleep 1;
}
$progress->finish();
Sample output:
% ./script.pl
60% [Doing item 6==== ]3s left
Another example, this time with terminal message as output:
use Progress::Any '$progress';
use Progress::Any::Output 'TermMessage', template => '[%n] %P/%T (%6.2p%%) %m';
$progress->target(10);
for (1..10) {
$progress->update(message => "Item $_/10");
sleep 1;
}
sleep 1;
$progress->finish(message => "Finished!");
Sample output:
% ./script.pl
[] 1/10 ( 10.00%) Item 1/10
[] 2/10 ( 20.00%) Item 2/10
...
[] 10/10 (100.00%) Item 10/10
[] 10/10 (100.00%) Finished!
Example of using in a module as well as script:
# in lib/MyApp.pm
package MyApp;
use Progress::Any;
sub download {
my @urls = @_;
return unless @urls;
my $progress = Progress::Any->get_indicator(
task => "download", pos=>0, target=>scalar @urls);
for my $url (@urls) {
# download the $url ...
$progress->update(message => "Downloaded $url");
}
$progress->finish;
}
# in script.pl
use MyApp;
use Progress::Any::Output;
Progress::Any::Output->set('TermProgressBarColor');
MyApp::download("url1", "url2", "url3", "url4", "url5");
Sample output:
% ./script.pl
20% [====== Downloaded url1 ]0m00s Left
Example that demonstrates multiple indicator objects:
use Progress::Any;
use Progress::Any::Output;
my $pdl = Progress::Any->get_indicator(task => 'download');
Progress::Any::Output->set({task=>'download'}, 'TermMessage', template => '[%-8t] [%P/%2T] %m');
my $pcp = Progress::Any->get_indicator(task => 'copy');
Progress::Any::Output->set({task=>'copy' }, 'TermMessage', template => '[%-8t] [%P/%2T] %m');
$pdl->target(10);
$pdl->update(message => "downloading A");
$pcp->update(message => "copying A");
sleep 1;
$pdl->update(message => "downloading B");
$pcp->update(message => "copying B");
will show something like:
[download] [1/10] downloading A
[copy ] [1/ ?] copying A
[download] [2/10] downloading B
[copy ] [2/ ?] copying B
Example of using with Perinci::CmdLine
If you use Perinci::CmdLine, you can mark your function as expecting a Progress::Any object and it will
be supplied to you in a special argument "-progress":
use File::chdir;
use Perinci::CmdLine;
$SPEC{check_dir} = {
v => 1.1,
args => {
dir => {summary=>"Path to check", schema=>"str*", req=>1, pos=>0},
},
features => {progress=>1},
};
sub check_dir {
my %args = @_;
my $progress = $args{-progress};
my $dir = $args{dir};
(-d $dir) or return [412, "No such dir: $dir"];
local $CWD = $dir;
opendir my($dh), $dir;
my @ent = readdir($dh);
$progress->pos(0);
$progress->target(scalar @ent);
for (@ent) {
# do the check ...
$progress->update(message => $_);
sleep 1;
}
$progress->finish;
[200];
}
Perinci::CmdLine->new(url => '/main/check_dir')->run;
DESCRIPTION
"Progress::Any" is an interface for applications that want to display progress to users. It decouples
progress updating and output, rather similar to how Log::Any decouples log producers and consumers
(output). The API is also rather similar to Log::Any, except Adapter is called Output and category is
called task.
Progress::Any records position/target and calculates elapsed time, estimated remaining time, and
percentage of completion. One or more output modules (Progress::Any::Output::*) display this information.
In your modules, you typically only need to use Progress::Any, get one or more indicators, set target and
update it during work. In your application, you use Progress::Any::Output and set/add one or more outputs
to display the progress (you'll need to install one of the output modules as they are not included in
this minimal distribution). By setting output only in the application and not in modules, you separate
the formatting/display concern from the logic.
Screenshots:
STATUS
API might still change, will be stabilized in 1.0.
The list of features:
• multiple progress indicators
You can use different indicator for each task/subtask.
• customizable output
Output is handled by one of "Progress::Any::Output::*" modules. Currently available outputs: "Null"
(no output), "TermMessage" (display as simple message on terminal), "TermProgressBarColor" (display
as color progress bar on terminal), "LogAny" (log using Log::Any), "Callback" (call a subroutine).
Other possible output ideas: IM/Twitter/SMS, GUI, web/AJAX, remote/RPC (over Riap for example, so
that Perinci::CmdLine-based command-line clients can display progress update from remote functions).
• multiple outputs
One or more outputs can be used to display one or more indicators.
• hierarchical progress
A task can be divided into subtasks. If a subtask is updated, its parent task (and its parent, and so
on) are also updated proportionally.
• message
Aside from setting a number/percentage, allow including a message when updating indicator.
• undefined target
Target can be undefined, so a bar output might not show any bar (or show them, but without percentage
indicator), but can still show messages.
• retargetting
Target can be changed in the middle of things.
EXPORTS
$progress => OBJ
The root indicator. Equivalent to:
Progress::Any->get_indicator(task => '')
ATTRIBUTES
Below are the attributes of an indicator/task:
task
String. Default: from caller's package, or "main".
Task name. If not specified will be set to caller's package ("::" will be replaced with "."), e.g. if you
are calling this method from "Foo::Bar::baz()", then task will be set to "Foo.Bar". If caller is code
inside eval, "main" will be used instead.
title
String. Default: task name.
Specify task title. Task title is a longer description for a task and can contain spaces and other
characters. It is displayed in some outputs, as well as using %t in "fill_template()". For example, for a
task called "copy", its title might be "Copying files to remote server".
target
Non-negative number. Default: 0.
The total number of items to finish. Can be set to undef to mean that we don't know (yet) how many items
there are to finish (in which case, we cannot estimate percent of completion and remaining time).
pos
Non-negative number. Default: 0.
The number of items that are already done. It cannot be larger than "target", if "target" is defined. If
"target" is set to a value smaller than "pos" or "pos" is set to a value larger than "target", "pos" will
be changed to be "target".
state
String. Default: "stopped".
State of task/indicator. Either: "stopped", "started", or "finished". Initially it will be set to
"stopped", which means elapsed time won't be running and will stay at 0. "update()" will set the state to
"started" to get elapsed time to run. At the end of task, you can call "finish()" (or alternatively set
"state" to "finished") to stop the elapsed time again.
The difference between "stopped" and "finished" is: when "target" and "pos" are both at 0, percent
completed is assumed to be 0% when state is "stopped", but 100% when state is "finished".
METHODS
get_indicator
Usage:
Progress::Any->get_indicator(%args) => obj
Get a progress indicator for a certain task. %args contain attribute values, at least "task" must be
specified.
Note that this module maintains a list of indicator singleton objects for each task (in %indicators
package variable), so subsequent "get_indicator()" for the same task will return the same object.
update
Usage:
$progress->update(%args)
Update indicator. Will also, usually, update associated output(s) if necessary.
Arguments:
• pos => NUM
Set the new position. If unspecified, defaults to current position + 1. If pos is larger than target,
outputs will generally still show 100%. Note that fractions are allowed.
• message => str|code
Set a message to be displayed when updating indicator.
Aside from a string, you can also pass a coderef here. It can be used to delay costly calculation.
The message will only be calculated when actually sent to output.
• priority => str ("normal"|"low"|"high", default: "normal")
Set importance level of this update. Default is "normal". Output can choose to ignore updates lower
than a certain level.
• state => STR
Can be set to "finished" to finish a task.
• force_update => BOOL
Default false. Some outputs choose only to update themselves after a certain amount of time or number
of updates have passed; this forces their update.
finish
Usage:
$progress->finish(%args)
Equivalent to:
$progress->update(
( pos => $progress->target ) x !!defined($progress->target),
state => 'finished',
%args,
);
reset
Usage:
$progress->reset(%args)
Equivalent to:
$progress->update(
pos => 0,
state => 'started',
%args,
);
start
Usage:
$progress->start()
Set state to "started".
stop
Usage:
$progress->stop()
Set state to "stopped".
elapsed
Usage:
$progress->elapsed() => float
Get elapsed time. Just like a stop-watch, when state is "started" elapsed time will run and when state is
"stopped", it will freeze.
remaining
Usage:
$progress->remaining() => undef|float
Give estimated remaining time until task is finished, which will depend on how fast the "update()" is
called, i.e. how fast "pos" is approaching "target". Will be undef if "target" is undef.
total_remaining
Usage:
$progress->total_remaining() => undef|FLOAT
Give estimated remaining time added by all its subtasks' remaining. Return undef if any one of those time
is undef.
total_pos
Usage:
$progress->total_pos() => float
Total of indicator's pos and all of its subtasks'.
total_target
Usage:
$progress->total_target() => undef|float
Total of indicator's target and all of its subtasks'. Return undef if any one of those is undef.
percent_complete
Usage:
$progress->percent_complete() => undef|float
Give percentage of completion, calculated using "total_pos / total_target * 100". Undef if total_target
is undef.
fill_template
Usage:
$progress->fill_template($template) => str
Fill template with values, like in "sprintf()". Usually used by output modules. Available templates:
• "%(width)n"
Task name (the value of the "task" attribute). "width" is optional, an integer, like in "sprintf()",
can be negative to mean left-justify instead of right.
• "%(width)t"
Task title (the value of the "title" attribute).
• "%(width)e"
Elapsed time (the result from the "elapsed()" method). Currently using Time::Duration concise format,
e.g. 10s, 1m40s, 16m40s, 1d4h, and so on. Format might be configurable and localizable in the
future. Default width is -8. Examples:
2m30s
10s
• "%(width)r"
Estimated remaining time (the result of the "total_remaining()" method). Currently using
Time::Duration concise format, e.g. 10s, 1m40s, 16m40s, 1d4h, and so on. Will show "?" if unknown.
Format might be configurable and localizable in the future. Default width is -8. Examples:
1m40s
5s
• "%(width)R"
Estimated remaining time or elapsed time, if estimated remaining time is not calculatable (e.g. when
target is undefined). Format might be configurable and localizable in the future. Default width is
-(8+1+7). Examples:
30s left
1m40s elapsed
• "%(width).(prec)p"
Percentage of completion (the result of the "percent_complete()" method). "width" and "precision"
are optional, like %f in Perl's "sprintf()", default is "%3.0p". If percentage is unknown (due to
target being undef), will show "?".
• "%(width)P"
Current position (the result of the "total_pos()" method).
• "%(width)T"
Target (the result of the "total_target()" method). If undefined, will show "?".
• %m
Message (the "update()" parameter). If message is unspecified, will show empty string.
• "%%"
A literal "%" sign.
FAQ
ENVIRONMENT
PROGRESS
Boolean. Default 1. Can be set to 0 to supress display progress output.
HOMEPAGE
Please visit the project's homepage at <https://metacpan.org/release/Progress-Any>.
SOURCE
Source repository is at <https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Progress-Any>.
SEE ALSO
Progress::Any::Examples distribution contains example scripts.
Other progress modules on CPAN: Term::ProgressBar, Term::ProgressBar::Simple, Time::Progress, among
others.
Output modules: "Progress::Any::Output::*". You need to install at least one module to actually see
progress being outputted/displayed somewhere, e.g. <> to Progress::Any::Output::TermProgressBarColor.
See examples on how Progress::Any is used by other modules: Perinci::CmdLine (supplying progress object
to functions), Git::Bunch (using progress object).
AUTHOR
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
CONTRIBUTOR
Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>
CONTRIBUTING
To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.
Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then
test via:
% prove -l
If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install
Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR,
and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required
beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2022, 2020, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 by perlancar
<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.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Progress-Any>
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.
perl v5.36.0 2022-10-30 Progress::Any(3pm)