requiring a value be supplied for an option

[flyingmachine]

clojure.tools.cli gives you a way to specify that a value must be supplied for an option by specifying the option with something like

["-e" "--entry ENTRY" "Text of your entry"]

If your args include --entry but nothing after, it's treated as an error. Would it be possible to do something similar with this library? :require mandates the presence of an option, but doesn't handle the case where no value is supplied.

[borkdude]

Yes, but we should only require something after --entry if: the expected type of entry is available and: it's not a boolean, I think?

[borkdude]

I'd say this should fail with a required error:

user=> (cli/parse-opts ["--foo"] {:coerce {:foo :number}})
{:foo true}

and this should not, as booleans may just be the flag:

user=> (cli/parse-opts ["--foo"] {:coerce {:foo :boolean}})
{:foo true}

[flyingmachine]

Yeah, this looks right to me

[borkdude]

OK, I'm working on it