--- Simplified getopt, based on Svenne Panne's Haskell GetOpt.
-- Usage: -- -- getOpt, usageInfo and usage can be called directly (see -- below, and the example at the end). Set _DEBUG.std to a non-nil -- value to run the example. -- module ("getopt", package.seeall) require "base" require "list" require "string_ext" require "object" require "io_ext" --- Perform argument processing -- @param argIn list of command-line args -- @param options options table -- @return table of remaining non-options -- @return table of option key-value list pairs -- @return table of error messages function getOpt (argIn, options) local noProcess = nil local argOut, optOut, errors = {[0] = argIn[0]}, {}, {} -- get an argument for option opt local function getArg (o, opt, arg, oldarg) if o.type == nil then if arg ~= nil then table.insert (errors, "option `" .. opt .. "' doesn't take an argument") end else if arg == nil and argIn[1] and string.sub (argIn[1], 1, 1) ~= "-" then arg = argIn[1] table.remove (argIn, 1) end if arg == nil and o.type == "Req" then table.insert (errors, "option `" .. opt .. "' requires an argument `" .. o.var .. "'") return nil end end if o.func then return o.func (arg, oldarg) end return arg or 1 -- make sure arg has a value end -- parse an option local function parseOpt (opt, arg) local o = options.name[opt] if o ~= nil then optOut[o.name[1]] = getArg (o, opt, arg, optOut[o.name[1]]) else table.insert (errors, "unrecognized option `-" .. opt .. "'") end end while argIn[1] do local v = argIn[1] table.remove (argIn, 1) local _, _, dash, opt = string.find (v, "^(%-%-?)([^=-][^=]*)") local _, _, arg = string.find (v, "=(.*)$") if v == "--" then noProcess = 1 elseif dash == nil or noProcess then -- non-option table.insert (argOut, v) else -- option parseOpt (opt, arg) end end return argOut, optOut, errors end --- Options table type. -- @class table -- @name _G.Option -- @field name list of names -- @field desc description of this option -- @field type type of argument (if any): Req(uired), -- Opt(ional) -- @field var descriptive name for the argument -- @field func optional function (newarg, oldarg) to convert argument -- into actual argument, (if omitted, argument is left as it -- is) _G.Option = Object {_init = {"name", "desc", "type", "var", "func"}} --- Options table constructor: adds lookup tables for the option names function _G.Options (t) local name = {} for _, v in ipairs (t) do for j, s in pairs (v.name) do if name[s] then warn ("duplicate option '%s'", s) end name[s] = v end end t.name = name return t end --- Produce usage info for the given options -- @param header header string -- @param optDesc option descriptors -- @param pageWidth width to format to [78] -- @return formatted string function usageInfo (header, optDesc, pageWidth) pageWidth = pageWidth or 78 -- Format the usage info for a single option -- @param opt the Option table -- @return options -- @return description local function fmtOpt (opt) local function fmtName (o) return "-" .. o end local function fmtArg () if opt.type == nil then return "" elseif opt.type == "Req" then return "=" .. opt.var else return "[=" .. opt.var .. "]" end end local textName = list.map (fmtName, opt.name) textName[1] = textName[1] .. fmtArg () return {table.concat ({table.concat (textName, ", ")}, ", "), opt.desc} end local function sameLen (xs) local n = math.max (unpack (list.map (string.len, xs))) for i, v in pairs (xs) do xs[i] = string.sub (v .. string.rep (" ", n), 1, n) end return xs, n end local function paste (x, y) return " " .. x .. " " .. y end local function wrapper (w, i) return function (s) return string.wrap (s, w, i, 0) end end local optText = "" if #optDesc > 0 then local cols = list.transpose (list.map (fmtOpt, optDesc)) local width cols[1], width = sameLen (cols[1]) cols[2] = list.map (wrapper (pageWidth, width + 4), cols[2]) optText = "\n\n" .. table.concat (list.mapWith (paste, list.transpose ({sameLen (cols[1]), cols[2]})), "\n") end return header .. optText end --- Emit a usage message. function usage () local name = prog.name prog.name = nil local usage, purpose, notes = "[OPTION...] FILE...", "", "" if prog.usage then usage = prog.usage end if prog.purpose then purpose = "\n" .. prog.purpose end if prog.notes then notes = "\n\n" if not string.find (prog.notes, "\n") then notes = notes .. string.wrap (prog.notes) else notes = notes .. prog.notes end end warn (getopt.usageInfo ("Usage: " .. name .. " " .. usage .. purpose, options) .. notes) end --- Simple getOpt wrapper. -- Adds -version/-v and -- -help/-h/-? automatically; -- stops program if there was an error, or if -help or -- -version was used. function processArgs () local totArgs = #arg options = Options (list.concat (options or {}, {Option {{"version", "v"}, "show program version"}, Option {{"help", "h", "?"}, "show this help"}} )) local errors _G.arg, opt, errors = getopt.getOpt (arg, options) if (opt.version or opt.help) and prog.banner then io.stderr:write (prog.banner .. "\n") end if #errors > 0 or opt.help then local name = prog.name prog.name = nil if #errors > 0 then warn (table.concat (errors, "\n") .. "\n") end prog.name = name getopt.usage () if #errors > 0 then error () end end if opt.version or opt.help then os.exit () end end _G.options = nil -- A small and hopefully enlightening example: if type (_DEBUG) == "table" and _DEBUG.std then function out (o) return o or io.stdout end options = Options { Option {{"verbose", "v"}, "verbosely list files"}, Option {{"version", "release", "V", "?"}, "show version info"}, Option {{"output", "o"}, "dump to FILE", "Opt", "FILE", out}, Option {{"name", "n"}, "only dump USER's files", "Req", "USER"}, } function test (cmdLine) local nonOpts, opts, errors = getopt.getOpt (cmdLine, options) if #errors == 0 then print ("options=" .. tostring (opts) .. " args=" .. tostring (nonOpts) .. "\n") else print (table.concat (errors, "\n") .. "\n" .. getopt.usageInfo ("Usage: foobar [OPTION...] FILE...", options)) end end -- FIXME: Turn the following documentation into unit tests prog = {name = "foobar"} -- in case of errors -- example runs: test {"foo", "-v"} -- options={verbose=1} args={1=foo,n=1} test {"foo", "--", "-v"} -- options={} args={1=foo,2=-v,n=2} test {"-o", "-?", "-name", "bar", "--name=baz"} -- options={output=userdata(?): 0x????????,version=1,name=baz} args={} test {"-foo"} -- unrecognized option `foo' -- Usage: foobar [OPTION...] FILE... -- -verbose, -v verbosely list files -- -version, -release, -V, -? show version info -- -output[=FILE], -o dump to FILE -- -name=USER, -n only dump USER's files end