fix(parse): answer the five vectors the reference implementation was failing - #930
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…failing The corpus recorded five places where usage-lib did not do what the grammar says. All five are fixed here, so the divergence list is empty for the first time and `reference.rs` asked for every label to be deleted. An attached value went back on the token queue to be read a second time, so `--jobs=--force` bound `force` and left `jobs` unset. The `=` has already settled that the text is a value, so it binds where it is read. A flag left waiting when the separator was consumed drained the word after it, so `ex --jobs -- x` quietly meant `ex --jobs=x` with the `--` gone. Such a flag is starved — its value could only come from after the `--`, where every token is data — and is now reported as the missing value it is. A flag whose argument is variadic took one value and called the next word unexpected, though the flag reference documents `--include <pattern>...` as the form that collects. It collects now, until a token is flag-like, a `--` arrives, `var_max` is reached, or the line ends — which also makes that bound reachable. Each value goes through the same drain as the first, so choices are checked the same way, and the attached form collects too: `--include=a b` and `--include a b` cannot sensibly differ. `double_dash="automatic"` was declared, serialized, and never enforced. Also adds a vector for the attached-value case above, which usage-argv already answered, and drops the note in the arg reference saying automatic mode is not enforced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe parser now aligns with all 153 corpus vectors. It handles attached values, hyphen-prefixed values, separators, automatic double-dash behavior, and variadic flag collection. Documentation and divergence metadata now record the resolved behavior. ChangesParser behavior alignment
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This PR aligns argument parsing with the reference behavior and adds conformance coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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LongFlagParser->>FlagValueValidation: Bind attached or hyphen-prefixed value
FlagValueValidation->>LongFlagParser: Validate and continue variadic collection
LongFlagParser->>PositionalParsing: Resume after separator or automatic double-dash transition
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Greptile SummaryThe PR brings usage-lib’s argv parsing into conformance with the shared corpus.
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…re consuming it `allow_hyphen_values` says a flag takes the next token whatever it looks like, and the question was asked one arm too late. A `--` was consumed as a separator while the flag stayed hungry, and the flag then ate the word past it, so `ex -a -- -x` bound `-x` and the separator was simply gone. Asked before the separator arm, the flag takes the `--` itself — which is what clap does with the same declaration, and what its `double_hyphen_as_value` test pins. This also closes the way around the starvation rule added alongside it: no flag can still be waiting once the separator has done its job, so there is no path left where a pending flag reaches past a `--`. A variadic argument now collects on this path too. Which token supplied its first value says nothing about how many it takes, and stopping after one made a hyphenated first value mean something different from a plain one. Collection still stops at the next flag-like token, which is what keeps a second occurrence of the flag from being eaten as a value. Reported by Cursor Bugbot on #930. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…st it builds `--include a b --include c d` with `var_max=2` refused `c`: the bound was read against everything the flag had collected across the command line, so the same declaration meant fewer values per occurrence the more often the flag was given — and the first value of each later occurrence was bound before the count was consulted, so the list could pass the maximum by one anyway. The bound counts what this occurrence takes. usage-argv and the Go runner both read it that way already, and it is what the grammar says: a variadic argument "keeps taking values from one occurrence ... until its `var_max` is reached". Two implementations agreeing against the reference is the corpus working. Every route to a flag's value — the following word, the text after an `=`, and the token an `allow_hyphen_values` flag takes whatever it looks like — now goes through one function, so the three cannot drift on how many values a flag ends up with. That is what let the bound be applied in one place instead of three. Reported by Greptile on #930. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Both review findings are fixed. Cursor Bugbot — hyphen path skips the starvation gate (c623508). The Greptile — aggregate While fixing it, the three routes to a flag's value — the following word, the text after an 154 vectors, 0 divergences, 0 mislabeled, across usage-lib, usage-argv, and the Go runner. This comment was generated by Claude Code. |
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5077-5100: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueExtend the test to cover the stop condition it describes.
The comment states that collection stops at the next flag-like token. The argv
["test", "-a", "-x", "b", "c"]ends at EOF, so the stop condition is not exercised. Add a second occurrence of the flag to cover it.♻️ Proposed coverage addition
let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-a", "-x", "b", "c"])).unwrap(); let flag = parsed .flags .keys() .find(|flag| flag.name == "args") .expect("expected args flag"); match parsed.flags.get(flag).expect("expected args value") { ParseValue::MultiString(values) => assert_eq!(values, &["-x", "b", "c"]), other => panic!("expected a list of values, got {other:?}"), } + + // A second occurrence of the flag stops the run rather than being eaten. + let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-a", "-x", "b", "-a", "c"])).unwrap(); + let flag = parsed + .flags + .keys() + .find(|flag| flag.name == "args") + .expect("expected args flag"); + match parsed.flags.get(flag).expect("expected args value") { + ParseValue::MultiString(values) => assert_eq!(values, &["-x", "b", "c"]), + other => panic!("expected a list of values, got {other:?}"), + } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Follow-up to #926, which imported clap's argv cases and left five recorded divergences. All five are fixed here, so the list is empty for the first time —
conformance/tests/reference.rsasked for every label to be deleted, which is exactly what that mechanism is for.153 vectors, 0 divergences, 0 mislabeled. usage-lib, usage-argv, and the Go runner from #922 all answer every one.
The five
An attached value was read a second time as a token.
--jobs=--forceboundforceand leftjobsunset: the value went back on the input queue, re-entered the loop at the top, and matched as a flag of its own. The=has already settled that the text is a value, so it binds where it is read.A flag left waiting when the separator was consumed took the word after it.
ex --jobs -- xmeantex --jobs=xwith the--gone — the one divergence here that silently changed what a command line means rather than erroring. Such a flag is starved: its value could only come from after the--, where every token is data. It is now reported as the missing value it is.A flag with a variadic argument took one value and called the next word unexpected, though the flag reference documents
--include <pattern>...as the form that collects. It collects now, until a token is flag-like, a--arrives,var_maxis reached, or the line ends.A
var_maxon such a flag was unreachable, being a bound on collection in a parser that never collected.double_dash="automatic"was declared, serialized, and never enforced. The arg's first value now stops flag interpretation, and the "not yet enforced" note is gone from the arg reference.One vector added
--include=a bcollected onlyain usage-lib while usage-argv and Go took both. The=settles where the first value came from and nothing more, so the attached and detached forms cannot sensibly differ. usage-lib now agrees, andlong-variadic-flag-arg-attached-first-valuepins it.Reviewer notes
choicesare checked identically rather than by a second path that could drift.var_maxbounds that list rather than each occurrence — the coherent reading given how the value is stored.enable_flagsnow gates the pending-value drain. Once a--is consumed no flag branch runs, so nothing can pend after it; the gate only ever catches a flag that was already starved.cargo test --all --all-features,cargo clippy --all --all-features -- -D warnings,cargo fmt, prettier, andgo test ./...ingo/are all clean.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Core argv binding in
lib/src/parse.rschanged for attached values,--, variadic flags, and automatic double-dash—behavioral fixes that can affect any CLI using usage-lib, though they are locked by the corpus.Overview
usage-lib now matches the normative argv grammar on the five cases that were still labeled as divergences: attached
=values bind in place (no re-queue as flags), hungry flags after--error instead of stealing the next word, variadic flag arguments greedily collect following tokens (including--include=a b),var_maxapplies per occurrence across repeats, anddouble_dash="automatic"turns off flag parsing after the arg’s first value.Parsing is refactored around
bind_pending_flag_value/collect_variadic_flag_values, withallow_hyphen_valueshandled before the--separator arm so-a -- -xcan bind--as the value. The conformance corpus drops divergence labels, adds vectors for attached variadic collection and per-occurrencevar_max, and PLAN.md / docs/spec/argv.md record zero active divergences (154/154).Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 65283e2. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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