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@phylum/command

Configurable command line parser

Usage

npm i @phylum/command

import { CommandSpec } from '@phylum/command';

new CommandSpec()
    .add({name: 'foo', multiple: true})
    .add({name: 'bar', alias: 'b' type: 'flag'})
    .parse(['--foo', 'bar', 'baz', '-b']);

// => { foo: ['bar', 'baz'], bar: true }

Command Line Format

| Format | Output | Spec | |-|-|-| | "--foo bar" | {foo: 'bar'} | {name: 'foo'} | | "--foo=bar" | {foo: 'bar'} | {name: 'foo'} | | "--foo bar baz" | {foo: ['bar', 'baz']} | {name: 'foo', multiple: true} | | "bar baz" | {foo: ['bar', 'baz']} | {name: 'foo', multiple: true, defaultFallback: true} | | "--foo" | {foo: true} | {name: 'foo', type: 'flag'} | | "--foo 42" | {foo: 42} | {name: 'foo', type: 'number'} | "-f bar" | {foo: 'bar'} | {name: 'foo', alias: 'f'} | | "-fb" | {foo: true, bar: true} | {name: 'foo', alias: 'f', type: 'flag'}, {name: 'bar', alias: 'b', type: 'flag'} | | "" | {foo: 'bar'} | {name: 'foo', defaultValue: 'bar'} | | -- bar --baz | {foo: ['bar', '--baz']} | {name: 'foo', type: 'rest'} |

Options

`options.partial`

If specified, unknown arguments will be ignored instead of throwing an error.

new CommandSpec()
    .add({name: 'foo'})
    .parse(['--foo', 'bar', '--baz'], {partial: true});

// => { foo: 'bar' }

`options.sparse`

If specified, arguments that follow others may be associated with the default argument.

new CommandSpec()
    .add({name: 'foo', default: true})
    .add({name: 'bar'})
    .parse(['--bar', 'baz', 'foo'], {sparse: true});

// => { bar: 'baz', foo: 'foo' }

Custom Types

function myType(value: string, spec: ArgumentSpec, options: ArgumentOptions) {
    return value.toUpperCase();
}

new CommandSpec()
    .add({name: 'foo', type: myType})
    .parse(['--foo', 'bar']);

// => { foo: 'BAR' }

Packaged Code

Usage no npm install needed!