package arg import ( "encoding" "encoding/csv" "errors" "fmt" "os" "path/filepath" "reflect" "strings" scalar "github.com/alexflint/go-scalar" ) // to enable monkey-patching during tests var osExit = os.Exit // path represents a sequence of steps to find the output location for an // argument or subcommand in the final destination struct type path struct { root int // index of the destination struct fields []reflect.StructField // sequence of struct fields to traverse } // String gets a string representation of the given path func (p path) String() string { s := "args" for _, f := range p.fields { s += "." + f.Name } return s } // Child gets a new path representing a child of this path. func (p path) Child(f reflect.StructField) path { // copy the entire slice of fields to avoid possible slice overwrite subfields := make([]reflect.StructField, len(p.fields)+1) copy(subfields, p.fields) subfields[len(subfields)-1] = f return path{ root: p.root, fields: subfields, } } // spec represents a command line option type spec struct { dest path typ reflect.Type long string short string multiple bool required bool positional bool separate bool help string env string boolean bool defaultVal string // default value for this option placeholder string // name of the data in help } // command represents a named subcommand, or the top-level command type command struct { name string help string dest path specs []*spec subcommands []*command parent *command } // ErrHelp indicates that -h or --help were provided var ErrHelp = errors.New("help requested by user") // ErrVersion indicates that --version was provided var ErrVersion = errors.New("version requested by user") // MustParse processes command line arguments and exits upon failure func MustParse(dest ...interface{}) *Parser { p, err := NewParser(Config{}, dest...) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) osExit(-1) return nil // just in case osExit was monkey-patched } err = p.Parse(flags()) switch { case err == ErrHelp: p.writeHelpForCommand(os.Stdout, p.lastCmd) osExit(0) case err == ErrVersion: fmt.Println(p.version) osExit(0) case err != nil: p.failWithCommand(err.Error(), p.lastCmd) } return p } // Parse processes command line arguments and stores them in dest func Parse(dest ...interface{}) error { p, err := NewParser(Config{}, dest...) if err != nil { return err } return p.Parse(flags()) } // flags gets all command line arguments other than the first (program name) func flags() []string { if len(os.Args) == 0 { // os.Args could be empty return nil } return os.Args[1:] } // Config represents configuration options for an argument parser type Config struct { Program string // Program is the name of the program used in the help text } // Parser represents a set of command line options with destination values type Parser struct { cmd *command roots []reflect.Value config Config version string description string // the following field changes during processing of command line arguments lastCmd *command } // Versioned is the interface that the destination struct should implement to // make a version string appear at the top of the help message. type Versioned interface { // Version returns the version string that will be printed on a line by itself // at the top of the help message. Version() string } // Described is the interface that the destination struct should implement to // make a description string appear at the top of the help message. type Described interface { // Description returns the string that will be printed on a line by itself // at the top of the help message. Description() string } // walkFields calls a function for each field of a struct, recursively expanding struct fields. func walkFields(t reflect.Type, visit func(field reflect.StructField, owner reflect.Type) bool) { walkFieldsImpl(t, visit, nil) } func walkFieldsImpl(t reflect.Type, visit func(field reflect.StructField, owner reflect.Type) bool, path []int) { for i := 0; i < t.NumField(); i++ { field := t.Field(i) field.Index = append(path, i) expand := visit(field, t) if expand && field.Type.Kind() == reflect.Struct { var subpath []int if field.Anonymous { subpath = append(path, i) } walkFieldsImpl(field.Type, visit, subpath) } } } // NewParser constructs a parser from a list of destination structs func NewParser(config Config, dests ...interface{}) (*Parser, error) { // first pick a name for the command for use in the usage text var name string switch { case config.Program != "": name = config.Program case len(os.Args) > 0: name = filepath.Base(os.Args[0]) default: name = "program" } // construct a parser p := Parser{ cmd: &command{name: name}, config: config, } // make a list of roots for _, dest := range dests { p.roots = append(p.roots, reflect.ValueOf(dest)) } // process each of the destination values for i, dest := range dests { t := reflect.TypeOf(dest) if t.Kind() != reflect.Ptr { panic(fmt.Sprintf("%s is not a pointer (did you forget an ampersand?)", t)) } cmd, err := cmdFromStruct(name, path{root: i}, t) if err != nil { return nil, err } // add nonzero field values as defaults for _, spec := range cmd.specs { if v := p.val(spec.dest); v.IsValid() && !isZero(v) { if defaultVal, ok := v.Interface().(encoding.TextMarshaler); ok { str, err := defaultVal.MarshalText() if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("%v: error marshaling default value to string: %v", spec.dest, err) } spec.defaultVal = string(str) } else { spec.defaultVal = fmt.Sprintf("%v", v) } } } p.cmd.specs = append(p.cmd.specs, cmd.specs...) p.cmd.subcommands = append(p.cmd.subcommands, cmd.subcommands...) if dest, ok := dest.(Versioned); ok { p.version = dest.Version() } if dest, ok := dest.(Described); ok { p.description = dest.Description() } } return &p, nil } func cmdFromStruct(name string, dest path, t reflect.Type) (*command, error) { // commands can only be created from pointers to structs if t.Kind() != reflect.Ptr { return nil, fmt.Errorf("subcommands must be pointers to structs but %s is a %s", dest, t.Kind()) } t = t.Elem() if t.Kind() != reflect.Struct { return nil, fmt.Errorf("subcommands must be pointers to structs but %s is a pointer to %s", dest, t.Kind()) } cmd := command{ name: name, dest: dest, } var errs []string walkFields(t, func(field reflect.StructField, t reflect.Type) bool { // Check for the ignore switch in the tag tag := field.Tag.Get("arg") if tag == "-" { return false } // If this is an embedded struct then recurse into its fields if field.Anonymous && field.Type.Kind() == reflect.Struct { return true } // duplicate the entire path to avoid slice overwrites subdest := dest.Child(field) spec := spec{ dest: subdest, long: strings.ToLower(field.Name), typ: field.Type, } help, exists := field.Tag.Lookup("help") if exists { spec.help = help } defaultVal, hasDefault := field.Tag.Lookup("default") if hasDefault { spec.defaultVal = defaultVal } // Look at the tag var isSubcommand bool // tracks whether this field is a subcommand if tag != "" { for _, key := range strings.Split(tag, ",") { key = strings.TrimLeft(key, " ") var value string if pos := strings.Index(key, ":"); pos != -1 { value = key[pos+1:] key = key[:pos] } switch { case strings.HasPrefix(key, "---"): errs = append(errs, fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s: too many hyphens", t.Name(), field.Name)) case strings.HasPrefix(key, "--"): spec.long = key[2:] case strings.HasPrefix(key, "-"): if len(key) != 2 { errs = append(errs, fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s: short arguments must be one character only", t.Name(), field.Name)) return false } spec.short = key[1:] case key == "required": if hasDefault { errs = append(errs, fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s: 'required' cannot be used when a default value is specified", t.Name(), field.Name)) return false } spec.required = true case key == "positional": spec.positional = true case key == "separate": spec.separate = true case key == "help": // deprecated spec.help = value case key == "env": // Use override name if provided if value != "" { spec.env = value } else { spec.env = strings.ToUpper(field.Name) } case key == "subcommand": // decide on a name for the subcommand cmdname := value if cmdname == "" { cmdname = strings.ToLower(field.Name) } // parse the subcommand recursively subcmd, err := cmdFromStruct(cmdname, subdest, field.Type) if err != nil { errs = append(errs, err.Error()) return false } subcmd.parent = &cmd subcmd.help = field.Tag.Get("help") cmd.subcommands = append(cmd.subcommands, subcmd) isSubcommand = true default: errs = append(errs, fmt.Sprintf("unrecognized tag '%s' on field %s", key, tag)) return false } } } placeholder, hasPlaceholder := field.Tag.Lookup("placeholder") if hasPlaceholder { spec.placeholder = placeholder } else { spec.placeholder = strings.ToUpper(spec.long) } // Check whether this field is supported. It's good to do this here rather than // wait until ParseValue because it means that a program with invalid argument // fields will always fail regardless of whether the arguments it received // exercised those fields. if !isSubcommand { cmd.specs = append(cmd.specs, &spec) var parseable bool parseable, spec.boolean, spec.multiple = canParse(field.Type) if !parseable { errs = append(errs, fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s: %s fields are not supported", t.Name(), field.Name, field.Type.String())) return false } if spec.multiple && hasDefault { errs = append(errs, fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s: default values are not supported for slice fields", t.Name(), field.Name)) return false } } // if this was an embedded field then we already returned true up above return false }) if len(errs) > 0 { return nil, errors.New(strings.Join(errs, "\n")) } // check that we don't have both positionals and subcommands var hasPositional bool for _, spec := range cmd.specs { if spec.positional { hasPositional = true } } if hasPositional && len(cmd.subcommands) > 0 { return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s cannot have both subcommands and positional arguments", dest) } return &cmd, nil } // Parse processes the given command line option, storing the results in the field // of the structs from which NewParser was constructed func (p *Parser) Parse(args []string) error { err := p.process(args) if err != nil { // If -h or --help were specified then make sure help text supercedes other errors for _, arg := range args { if arg == "-h" || arg == "--help" { return ErrHelp } if arg == "--" { break } } } return err } // process environment vars for the given arguments func (p *Parser) captureEnvVars(specs []*spec, wasPresent map[*spec]bool) error { for _, spec := range specs { if spec.env == "" { continue } value, found := os.LookupEnv(spec.env) if !found { continue } if spec.multiple { // expect a CSV string in an environment // variable in the case of multiple values values, err := csv.NewReader(strings.NewReader(value)).Read() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf( "error reading a CSV string from environment variable %s with multiple values: %v", spec.env, err, ) } if err = setSlice(p.val(spec.dest), values, !spec.separate); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf( "error processing environment variable %s with multiple values: %v", spec.env, err, ) } } else { if err := scalar.ParseValue(p.val(spec.dest), value); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error processing environment variable %s: %v", spec.env, err) } } wasPresent[spec] = true } return nil } // process goes through arguments one-by-one, parses them, and assigns the result to // the underlying struct field func (p *Parser) process(args []string) error { // track the options we have seen wasPresent := make(map[*spec]bool) // union of specs for the chain of subcommands encountered so far curCmd := p.cmd p.lastCmd = curCmd // make a copy of the specs because we will add to this list each time we expand a subcommand specs := make([]*spec, len(curCmd.specs)) copy(specs, curCmd.specs) // deal with environment vars err := p.captureEnvVars(specs, wasPresent) if err != nil { return err } // process each string from the command line var allpositional bool var positionals []string // must use explicit for loop, not range, because we manipulate i inside the loop for i := 0; i < len(args); i++ { arg := args[i] if arg == "--" { allpositional = true continue } if !isFlag(arg) || allpositional { // each subcommand can have either subcommands or positionals, but not both if len(curCmd.subcommands) == 0 { positionals = append(positionals, arg) continue } // if we have a subcommand then make sure it is valid for the current context subcmd := findSubcommand(curCmd.subcommands, arg) if subcmd == nil { return fmt.Errorf("invalid subcommand: %s", arg) } // instantiate the field to point to a new struct v := p.val(subcmd.dest) v.Set(reflect.New(v.Type().Elem())) // we already checked that all subcommands are struct pointers // add the new options to the set of allowed options specs = append(specs, subcmd.specs...) // capture environment vars for these new options err := p.captureEnvVars(subcmd.specs, wasPresent) if err != nil { return err } curCmd = subcmd p.lastCmd = curCmd continue } // check for special --help and --version flags switch arg { case "-h", "--help": return ErrHelp case "--version": return ErrVersion } // check for an equals sign, as in "--foo=bar" var value string opt := strings.TrimLeft(arg, "-") if pos := strings.Index(opt, "="); pos != -1 { value = opt[pos+1:] opt = opt[:pos] } // lookup the spec for this option (note that the "specs" slice changes as // we expand subcommands so it is better not to use a map) spec := findOption(specs, opt) if spec == nil { return fmt.Errorf("unknown argument %s", arg) } wasPresent[spec] = true // deal with the case of multiple values if spec.multiple { var values []string if value == "" { for i+1 < len(args) && !isFlag(args[i+1]) && args[i+1] != "--" { values = append(values, args[i+1]) i++ if spec.separate { break } } } else { values = append(values, value) } err := setSlice(p.val(spec.dest), values, !spec.separate) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error processing %s: %v", arg, err) } continue } // if it's a flag and it has no value then set the value to true // use boolean because this takes account of TextUnmarshaler if spec.boolean && value == "" { value = "true" } // if we have something like "--foo" then the value is the next argument if value == "" { if i+1 == len(args) { return fmt.Errorf("missing value for %s", arg) } if !nextIsNumeric(spec.typ, args[i+1]) && isFlag(args[i+1]) { return fmt.Errorf("missing value for %s", arg) } value = args[i+1] i++ } err := scalar.ParseValue(p.val(spec.dest), value) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error processing %s: %v", arg, err) } } // process positionals for _, spec := range specs { if !spec.positional { continue } if len(positionals) == 0 { break } wasPresent[spec] = true if spec.multiple { err := setSlice(p.val(spec.dest), positionals, true) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error processing %s: %v", spec.long, err) } positionals = nil } else { err := scalar.ParseValue(p.val(spec.dest), positionals[0]) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error processing %s: %v", spec.long, err) } positionals = positionals[1:] } } if len(positionals) > 0 { return fmt.Errorf("too many positional arguments at '%s'", positionals[0]) } // fill in defaults and check that all the required args were provided for _, spec := range specs { if wasPresent[spec] { continue } name := spec.long if !spec.positional { name = "--" + spec.long } if spec.required { return fmt.Errorf("%s is required", name) } if spec.defaultVal != "" { err := scalar.ParseValue(p.val(spec.dest), spec.defaultVal) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error processing default value for %s: %v", name, err) } } } return nil } func nextIsNumeric(t reflect.Type, s string) bool { switch t.Kind() { case reflect.Ptr: return nextIsNumeric(t.Elem(), s) case reflect.Int, reflect.Int8, reflect.Int16, reflect.Int32, reflect.Int64, reflect.Float32, reflect.Float64, reflect.Uint, reflect.Uint8, reflect.Uint16, reflect.Uint32, reflect.Uint64, reflect.Uintptr: v := reflect.New(t) err := scalar.ParseValue(v, s) return err == nil default: return false } } // isFlag returns true if a token is a flag such as "-v" or "--user" but not "-" or "--" func isFlag(s string) bool { return strings.HasPrefix(s, "-") && strings.TrimLeft(s, "-") != "" } // val returns a reflect.Value corresponding to the current value for the // given path func (p *Parser) val(dest path) reflect.Value { v := p.roots[dest.root] for _, field := range dest.fields { if v.Kind() == reflect.Ptr { if v.IsNil() { return reflect.Value{} } v = v.Elem() } next := v.FieldByIndex(field.Index) if !next.IsValid() { // it is appropriate to panic here because this can only happen due to // an internal bug in this library (since we construct the path ourselves // by reflecting on the same struct) panic(fmt.Errorf("error resolving path %v: %v has no field named %v", dest.fields, v.Type(), field)) } v = next } return v } // parse a value as the appropriate type and store it in the struct func setSlice(dest reflect.Value, values []string, trunc bool) error { if !dest.CanSet() { return fmt.Errorf("field is not writable") } var ptr bool elem := dest.Type().Elem() if elem.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && !elem.Implements(textUnmarshalerType) { ptr = true elem = elem.Elem() } // Truncate the dest slice in case default values exist if trunc && !dest.IsNil() { dest.SetLen(0) } for _, s := range values { v := reflect.New(elem) if err := scalar.ParseValue(v.Elem(), s); err != nil { return err } if !ptr { v = v.Elem() } dest.Set(reflect.Append(dest, v)) } return nil } // findOption finds an option from its name, or returns null if no spec is found func findOption(specs []*spec, name string) *spec { for _, spec := range specs { if spec.positional { continue } if spec.long == name || spec.short == name { return spec } } return nil } // findSubcommand finds a subcommand using its name, or returns null if no subcommand is found func findSubcommand(cmds []*command, name string) *command { for _, cmd := range cmds { if cmd.name == name { return cmd } } return nil } // isZero returns true if v contains the zero value for its type func isZero(v reflect.Value) bool { t := v.Type() if t.Kind() == reflect.Slice { return v.IsNil() } if !t.Comparable() { return false } return v.Interface() == reflect.Zero(t).Interface() }