diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 315c7a7..ef2386b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,36 +4,35 @@
# Kong is a command-line parser for Go
[](http://godoc.org/github.com/alecthomas/kong) [](https://circleci.com/gh/alecthomas/kong) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/alecthomas/kong) [](https://gophers.slack.com/messages/CN9DS8YF3)
-
+[TOC levels=2-3 numbered]: # "#### Table of Contents"
+#### Table of Contents
1. [Introduction](#introduction)
-2. [Help](#help)
-3. [Command handling](#command-handling)
- 1. [1. Switch on the command string](#1-switch-on-the-command-string)
- 2. [2. Attach a `Run(...) error` method to each command](#2-attach-a-run-error-method-to-each-command)
-4. [Hooks: BeforeResolve(), BeforeApply(), AfterApply() and the Bind() option](#hooks-beforeresolve-beforeapply-afterapply-and-the-bind-option)
-5. [Flags](#flags)
-6. [Commands and sub-commands](#commands-and-sub-commands)
-7. [Branching positional arguments](#branching-positional-arguments)
-8. [Terminating positional arguments](#terminating-positional-arguments)
-9. [Slices](#slices)
-10. [Maps](#maps)
-11. [Custom named decoders](#custom-named-decoders)
-12. [Custom decoders (mappers)](#custom-decoders-mappers)
-13. [Supported tags](#supported-tags)
-14. [Variable interpolation](#variable-interpolation)
-15. [Modifying Kong's behaviour](#modifying-kongs-behaviour)
- 1. [`Name(help)` and `Description(help)` - set the application name description](#namehelp-and-descriptionhelp---set-the-application-name-description)
- 2. [`Configuration(loader, paths...)` - load defaults from configuration files](#configurationloader-paths---load-defaults-from-configuration-files)
- 3. [`Resolver(...)` - support for default values from external sources](#resolver---support-for-default-values-from-external-sources)
- 4. [`*Mapper(...)` - customising how the command-line is mapped to Go values](#mapper---customising-how-the-command-line-is-mapped-to-go-values)
- 5. [`ConfigureHelp(HelpOptions)`, `Help(HelpFunc)` and `HelpFormatter(HelpValueFormatter)` - customising help](#configurehelphelpoptions-and-helphelpfunc---customising-help)
- 6. [`Bind(...)` - bind values for callback hooks and Run() methods](#bind---bind-values-for-callback-hooks-and-run-methods)
- 7. [Other options](#other-options)
+1. [Help](#help)
+1. [Command handling](#command-handling)
+ 1. [Switch on the command string](#switch-on-the-command-string)
+ 1. [Attach a `Run(...) error` method to each command](#attach-a-run-error-method-to-each-command)
+1. [Hooks: BeforeResolve(), BeforeApply(), AfterApply() and the Bind() option](#hooks-beforeresolve-beforeapply-afterapply-and-the-bind-option)
+1. [Flags](#flags)
+1. [Commands and sub-commands](#commands-and-sub-commands)
+1. [Branching positional arguments](#branching-positional-arguments)
+1. [Terminating positional arguments](#terminating-positional-arguments)
+1. [Slices](#slices)
+1. [Maps](#maps)
+1. [Custom named decoders](#custom-named-decoders)
+1. [Custom decoders (mappers)](#custom-decoders-mappers)
+1. [Supported tags](#supported-tags)
+1. [Variable interpolation](#variable-interpolation)
+1. [Modifying Kong's behaviour](#modifying-kongs-behaviour)
+ 1. [`Name(help)` and `Description(help)` - set the application name description](#namehelp-and-descriptionhelp---set-the-application-name-description)
+ 1. [`Configuration(loader, paths...)` - load defaults from configuration files](#configurationloader-paths---load-defaults-from-configuration-files)
+ 1. [`Resolver(...)` - support for default values from external sources](#resolver---support-for-default-values-from-external-sources)
+ 1. [`*Mapper(...)` - customising how the command-line is mapped to Go values](#mapper---customising-how-the-command-line-is-mapped-to-go-values)
+ 1. [`ConfigureHelp(HelpOptions)` and `Help(HelpFunc)` - customising help](#configurehelphelpoptions-and-helphelpfunc---customising-help)
+ 1. [`Bind(...)` - bind values for callback hooks and Run() methods](#bind---bind-values-for-callback-hooks-and-run-methods)
+ 1. [Other options](#other-options)
-
-
## Introduction
Kong aims to support arbitrarily complex command-line structures with as little developer effort as possible.
@@ -76,7 +75,6 @@ func main() {
}
```
-
## Help
Help is automatically generated. With no other arguments provided, help will display a full summary of all available commands.
@@ -117,13 +115,15 @@ eg.
-f, --force Force removal.
-r, --recursive Recursively remove files.
-
+For flags with associated environment variables, the variable `${env}` can be
+interpolated into the help string. In the absence of this variable in the help,
+
+
## Command handling
There are two ways to handle commands in Kong.
-
-### 1. Switch on the command string
+### Switch on the command string
When you call `kong.Parse()` it will return a unique string representation of the command. Each command branch in the hierarchy will be a bare word and each branching argument or required positional argument will be the name surrounded by angle brackets. Here's an example:
@@ -162,8 +162,7 @@ func main() {
This has the advantage that it is convenient, but the downside that if you modify your CLI structure, the strings may change. This can be fragile.
-
-### 2. Attach a `Run(...) error` method to each command
+### Attach a `Run(...) error` method to each command
A more robust approach is to break each command out into their own structs:
@@ -228,7 +227,6 @@ func main() {
```
-
## Hooks: BeforeResolve(), BeforeApply(), AfterApply() and the Bind() option
If a node in the grammar has a `BeforeResolve(...)`, `BeforeApply(...) error` and/or `AfterApply(...) error` method, those methods will be called before validation/assignment and after validation/assignment, respectively.
@@ -262,7 +260,6 @@ func main() {
}
```
-
## Flags
Any [mapped](#mapper---customising-how-the-command-line-is-mapped-to-go-values) field in the command structure *not* tagged with `cmd` or `arg` will be a flag. Flags are optional by default.
@@ -275,7 +272,6 @@ type CLI struct {
}
```
-
## Commands and sub-commands
Sub-commands are specified by tagging a struct field with `cmd`. Kong supports arbitrarily nested commands.
@@ -295,7 +291,6 @@ type CLI struct {
If a sub-command is tagged with `default:"1"` it will be selected if there are no further arguments.
-
## Branching positional arguments
In addition to sub-commands, structs can also be configured as branching positional arguments.
@@ -323,14 +318,12 @@ var CLI struct {
This looks a little verbose in this contrived example, but typically this will not be the case.
-
## Terminating positional arguments
If a [mapped type](#mapper---customising-how-the-command-line-is-mapped-to-go-values) is tagged with `arg` it will be treated as the final positional values to be parsed on the command line.
If a positional argument is a slice, all remaining arguments will be appended to that slice.
-
## Slices
Slice values are treated specially. First the input is split on the `sep:""` tag (defaults to `,`), then each element is parsed by the slice element type and appended to the slice. If the same value is encountered multiple times, elements continue to be appended.
@@ -349,7 +342,6 @@ var CLI struct {
}
```
-
## Maps
Maps are similar to slices except that only one key/value pair can be assigned per value, and the `sep` tag denotes the assignment character and defaults to `=`.
@@ -372,7 +364,6 @@ var CLI struct {
For flags, multiple key+value pairs should be separated by `mapsep:"rune"` tag (defaults to `;`) eg. `--set="key1=value1;key2=value2"`.
-
## Custom named decoders
Kong includes a number of builtin custom type mappers. These can be used by
@@ -384,6 +375,7 @@ function `NamedMapper(name, mapper)`.
| `path` | A path. ~ expansion is applied. |
| `existingfile` | An existing file. ~ expansion is applied. |
| `existingdir` | An existing directory. ~ expansion is applied. |
+| `counter` | Increment a numeric field. Useful for `-vvv` |
Slices and maps treat type tags specially. For slices, the `type:""` tag
@@ -391,7 +383,6 @@ specifies the element type. For maps, the tag has the format
`tag:"[]:[]"` where either may be omitted.
-
## Custom decoders (mappers)
Any field implementing `encoding.TextUnmarshaler` or `json.Unmarshaler` will use those interfaces
@@ -401,7 +392,6 @@ For more fine-grained control, if a field implements the
[MapperValue](https://godoc.org/github.com/alecthomas/kong#MapperValue)
interface it will be used to decode arguments into the field.
-
## Supported tags
Tags can be in two forms:
@@ -418,7 +408,7 @@ Tag | Description
`env:"X"` | Specify envar to use for default value.
`name:"X"` | Long name, for overriding field name.
`help:"X"` | Help text.
-`type:"X"` | Specify [named types](#custom-named-types) to use.
+`type:"X"` | Specify [named types](#custom-named-decoders) to use.
`placeholder:"X"` | Placeholder text.
`default:"X"` | Default value.
`default:"1"` | On a command, make it the default.
@@ -436,7 +426,6 @@ Tag | Description
`set:"K=V"` | Set a variable for expansion by child elements. Multiples can occur.
`embed` | If present, this field's children will be embedded in the parent. Useful for composition.
-
## Variable interpolation
Kong supports limited variable interpolation into help strings, enum lists and
@@ -475,14 +464,12 @@ func main() {
}
```
-
## Modifying Kong's behaviour
Each Kong parser can be configured via functional options passed to `New(cli interface{}, options...Option)`.
The full set of options can be found [here](https://godoc.org/github.com/alecthomas/kong#Option).
-
### `Name(help)` and `Description(help)` - set the application name description
Set the application name and/or description.
@@ -491,7 +478,6 @@ The name of the application will default to the binary name, but can be overridd
As with all help in Kong, text will be wrapped to the terminal.
-
### `Configuration(loader, paths...)` - load defaults from configuration files
This option provides Kong with support for loading defaults from a set of configuration files. Each file is opened, if possible, and the loader called to create a resolver for that file.
@@ -504,14 +490,12 @@ kong.Parse(&cli, kong.Configuration(kong.JSON, "/etc/myapp.json", "~/.myapp.json
[See the tests](https://github.com/alecthomas/kong/blob/master/resolver_test.go#L103) for an example of how the JSON file is structured.
-
### `Resolver(...)` - support for default values from external sources
Resolvers are Kong's extension point for providing default values from external sources. As an example, support for environment variables via the `env` tag is provided by a resolver. There's also a builtin resolver for JSON configuration files.
Example resolvers can be found in [resolver.go](https://github.com/alecthomas/kong/blob/master/resolver.go).
-
### `*Mapper(...)` - customising how the command-line is mapped to Go values
Command-line arguments are mapped to Go values via the Mapper interface:
@@ -534,7 +518,6 @@ All builtin Go types (as well as a bunch of useful stdlib types like `time.Time`
3. `TypeMapper(reflect.Type, Mapper)`.
4. `ValueMapper(interface{}, Mapper)`, passing in a pointer to a field of the grammar.
-
### `ConfigureHelp(HelpOptions)` and `Help(HelpFunc)` - customising help
The default help output is usually sufficient, but if not there are two solutions.
@@ -543,12 +526,10 @@ The default help output is usually sufficient, but if not there are two solution
2. Custom help can be wired into Kong via the `Help(HelpFunc)` option. The `HelpFunc` is passed a `Context`, which contains the parsed context for the current command-line. See the implementation of `PrintHelp` for an example.
3. Use `HelpFormatter(HelpValueFormatter)` if you want to just customize the help text that is accompanied by flags and arguments.
-
### `Bind(...)` - bind values for callback hooks and Run() methods
-See the [section on hooks](#BeforeApply-AfterApply-and-the-bind-option) for details.
+See the [section on hooks](#hooks-beforeresolve-beforeapply-afterapply-and-the-bind-option) for details.
-
### Other options
The full set of options can be found [here](https://godoc.org/github.com/alecthomas/kong#Option).
diff --git a/mapper.go b/mapper.go
index a1d9058..0291184 100644
--- a/mapper.go
+++ b/mapper.go
@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@ func (r *Registry) RegisterDefaults() *Registry {
RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf(&url.URL{}), urlMapper()).
RegisterName("path", pathMapper(r)).
RegisterName("existingfile", existingFileMapper(r)).
- RegisterName("existingdir", existingDirMapper(r))
+ RegisterName("existingdir", existingDirMapper(r)).
+ RegisterName("counter", counterMapper())
}
type boolMapper struct{}
@@ -593,6 +594,25 @@ func existingDirMapper(r *Registry) MapperFunc {
}
}
+func counterMapper() MapperFunc {
+ return func(ctx *DecodeContext, target reflect.Value) error {
+ switch target.Kind() {
+ case reflect.Int, reflect.Int8, reflect.Int16, reflect.Int32, reflect.Int64:
+ target.SetInt(target.Int() + 1)
+
+ case reflect.Uint, reflect.Uint8, reflect.Uint16, reflect.Uint32, reflect.Uint64:
+ target.SetUint(target.Uint() + 1)
+
+ case reflect.Float32, reflect.Float64:
+ target.SetFloat(target.Float() + 1)
+
+ default:
+ return errors.Errorf("type:\"counter\" must be used with a numeric field")
+ }
+ return nil
+ }
+}
+
func urlMapper() MapperFunc {
return func(ctx *DecodeContext, target reflect.Value) error {
var urlStr string
diff --git a/mapper_test.go b/mapper_test.go
index 1ec9441..25e09c4 100644
--- a/mapper_test.go
+++ b/mapper_test.go
@@ -239,3 +239,24 @@ func TestNamedSliceTypesDontHaveEllipsis(t *testing.T) {
})
require.NotContains(t, b.String(), `--file=FILE-CONTENT-FLAG,...`)
}
+
+func TestCounter(t *testing.T) {
+ var cli struct {
+ Int int `type:"counter" short:"i"`
+ Uint uint `type:"counter" short:"u"`
+ Float float64 `type:"counter" short:"f"`
+ }
+ p := mustNew(t, &cli)
+
+ _, err := p.Parse([]string{"-iii"})
+ require.NoError(t, err)
+ require.Equal(t, 3, cli.Int)
+
+ _, err = p.Parse([]string{"-uuu"})
+ require.NoError(t, err)
+ require.Equal(t, uint(3), cli.Uint)
+
+ _, err = p.Parse([]string{"-fff"})
+ require.NoError(t, err)
+ require.Equal(t, 3., cli.Float)
+}