[p4] Passing description into p4 shelve using P4 perl module

Posted on behalf of forum user 'daveg'.

Hi:

This topic is similar to "How to shelve a change with a one liner from the
CLI" only through perl P4 module instead.  

The problem is to run $p4->Run(shelve) in perl and somehow provide the
"description".  
This works at the cli...

    p416 --field "Description=this is the descr"
change -o | p4 shelve -i

Question is, how to mimic that in perl using the P4 module.

I have a feeling the answer may lie with Spec...






Class Methods





new P4::Spec.new( anArray ) -> aP4::Spec

Constructs a new P4::Spec object given an array of valid  field names.




Instance Methods





spec._< field name> -> aValue

Returns the value associated with the  field  named  < field name> . This
is equivalent to spec[ "< field name >" ] with the exception
that when used as a method, the  field names may be in lowercase regardless of
the actual case of the  field name.
client  =  p4 . fetch_client ()
root    =  client . _root
desc    =  client . _description
But how does that translate to per code ? 

I see... "...given an array of fieldnames". 

In perl, an array is a list (e.g. @arr).  But this looks like it
should be a hash, as in...
my %hsh = (client => "the _client_name", root =>
"rootname", desc => "This is the
description").  

Example needed !

Thanks in advance



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