[Interest] Args

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Thu May 4 10:41:54 CEST 2017


Using exceptions in arguments parser is something that just cannot be justified.

04.05.2017, 09:22, "Igor Mironchik" <igor.mironchik at gmail.com>:
> Hello guys,
>
> I know that Qt already has its own stuff for CLI parsing. I don't remember who told it, but - more good libraries, more and more...
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> I want to tell you about Args. Probably you know about QtArg. So QtArg is a parent of Args. Args on one side a little simpler than QtArg, but on another side it has different features. Args support both worlds - pure C++ (with std::string or std::wstring) and Qt with QString. You just define ARGS_WSTRING_BUILD, ARGS_QSTRING_BUILD or nothing to build Args with std::wstring, QString or std::string support.
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> Bellow is release announcement of Args 3.0.1
>> "First of all I have to say about new features in Args version 3.0.1. In this version was added new class ArgAsCommand. This is special argument with name like in Command (i.e. without starting dashes). But this is not a command. Command can has child arguments, groups. But ArgAsCommand can't. It can has one value or many values, or can be without value. ArgAsCommand can be defined only once in CLI. And ArgAsCommand can be added into groups and commands.
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>> I wrote about commands, but what is it?! Command is an argument in CLI without starting dashes, like "add", "delete", "move". And in command developer can add child arguments. Child argument are valid only if command was defined. This is reflected in help of Args, I wrote about it.
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>> And groups... Why developer need them? Groups are useful for checking of state of arguments after parsing. You can just say - I want arguments "-a" and "-b" to be required and I want only one of arguments "-c" and "-d" be required, i.e. if defined both "-c" and "-d" - is an error. You can mix groups in any way, you can nest them. And I suggest to name groups like - "only one argument can be defined - "-c" or "-d"". In this case user will see understandable error message if he will put wrong arguments.
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>> Since first version of Args there are two types of arguments. These are Arg and MultiArg. Different is simple - Arg can be defined only once whereas MultiArg can be defined multiply times. These arguments can be with value or without, can be required or not.
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>> And one more thing that you should know about groups - you can't add required argument into group, and you can't add command into it. But if group is AllOfGroup and it's required then in help arguments of this group will be printed as required."
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> And in Args 4.0.0 was added support of different string types.
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> Major difference of Args with QtArg that Args doesn't support any number of names of argument, you just can specify name and flag. But in Args implemented different groups and ArgAsCommand. And in Args you can't shorten name of argument, you have to write full name.
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> I think that I will stop further development of QtArg, I will fix bugs only, but new features I will not add.
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> Args you can find here - https://github.com/igormironchik/args-parser
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Konstantin



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