Argy-Bargy

Argy-Bargy is a fancy argument parsing library for Janet.

Features

Argy-Bargy has the following features:

• parses options (arguments that begin with a -- or -)
  • supports four option types (flags, counts, single values and multiple values)
  • supports user-defined conversions from text input
  • support parsing of combined short options (e.g. -lah)
  • support the use of = and white space between long options and values
• parses parameters (arguments that are not options)
  • supports positional parameters and catch-all parameters
  • supports user-defined conversions from text
  • supports required parameters and default values
• parses subcommands
  • supports arbitrary number of subcommands
  • supports per-subcommand options and parameters
• generates documentation
  • generates usage help based on parsing rules
  • supports user-defined usage examples
  • indents usage instructions automatically

Installation

Add the dependency to your project.janet file:

(declare-project
  :dependencies ["https://github.com/pyrmont/argy-bargy"])

Usage

Argy-Bargy can be used like this:

Without Subcommands

(import argy-bargy)

(def rules
  ["--foo" {:kind :single
            :help "The option foo takes a single value."}
   "--bar" {:kind :flag
            :help "The option bar is a flag."}
   :srcs   {:help  "The source files for the program."
            :rest? true}])

(def info
  {:about "A program that does something to the 'srcs' parameters."
   :rider "For more information, visit our website at example.com/program."})

(def config {:rules rules :info info})

(argy-bargy/parse-args "program" config)

If the argument is --help, the following will be printed to stdout:

usage: program [--foo <foo>] [--bar] srcs...

A program that does something to the 'srcs' parameters.

Parameters:

 srcs    The source files for the program.

Options:

     --foo <foo>    The option foo takes a single value.
     --bar          The option bar is a flag.
 -h, --help         Show this help message.

For more information, visit our website at example.com/program.

With Subcommands

(import argy-bargy)

(def subcommands
  ["foo" {:rules {:kind :single
                  :help "The option foo takes a single value."}
          :help  "Run the foo command."}
   "bar" {:rules {:kind :flag
                  :help "The option bar is a flag."}
          :help  "Run the bar command."}])

(def info
  {:about "A program that provides subcommands that do something."
   :rider "For more information, visit our website at example.com/program."})

(def config {:info info :subs subcommands})

(argy-bargy/parse-args "program" config)

If the argument is --help, the following will be printed to stdout:

usage: program <subcommand> [<args>]

A program that provides subcommands that do something.

Options:

 -h, --help    Show this help message.

Subcommands:

 foo    Run the foo command.
 bar    Run the bar command.

For more information on each subcommand, type 'program help <subcommand>'.

For more information, visit our website at example.com/program.

API

Documentation for Argy-Bargy's API is in api.md.

Bugs

Found a bug? I'd love to know about it. The best way is to report your bug in the Issues section on GitHub.

Licence

Argy-Bargy is licensed under the MIT Licence. See LICENSE for more details.