Fixes #4: CLI parser can accept "--flag value" arguments#10
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Fixes #4: CLI parser can accept "--flag value" arguments#10robinheghan merged 1 commit intogren-lang:mainfrom
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Instead of splitting the command-line on whitespace, and looking for "--flag=value" strings to find the flags, step through all the arguments to that "--flag=value" and "--flag value" (as separate arguments) can be handled. This also adds the convention seen in many POSIX tools whereby the "--" string stops optional flag processing, and everything after it is considered a positional argument. This implementation does not allow separated values that start with "--", as in "--output --legal-filename". That produces an error. If the user really wants to do that, they can use the version with the equals sign: "--output=--legal-filename"
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The one "code smell" here is that instead of adding a notion of "does this flag require a value", I'm keying off of the "title" field in the FlagParserDescription. A toggle flag has an empty title, whereas non-toggle flags do not. If we want to improve that, FlagParserDescription should change. I added new unit tests, which pass. I am unable to build a gren 0.6.3 compiler with this package, however. |
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Yeah, the compiler app hasn't been updated to the latest version of Gren, so unit tests will have to do for now :) |
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Thanks! |
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Instead of splitting the command-line on whitespace, and looking for "--flag=value" strings to find the flags, step through all the arguments to that "--flag=value" and "--flag value" (as separate arguments) can be handled.
This also adds the convention seen in many POSIX tools whereby the "--" string stops optional flag processing, and everything after it is considered a positional argument.
This implementation does not allow separated values that start with "--", as in "--output --legal-filename". That produces an error. If the user really wants to do that, they can use the version with the equals sign: "--output=--legal-filename"