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Jul 04, 2008
Matt
Jul 04, 2008
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Jul 04, 2008
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superdan
Why D Needs Attributes (Was: Command-line arguments)
Jul 04, 2008
Nick Sabalausky
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Nick Sabalausky
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Nick Sabalausky
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Walter Bright
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Kirk McDonald
July 04, 2008
Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?

In particular:
- handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard expansion)
- handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
- handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"

Thanks

Matt
July 04, 2008
"Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
>
> In particular:
> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard
> expansion)
> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt

I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or Phobos 2. However, there is one in Tango.


July 04, 2008
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
>> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
>>
>> In particular:
>> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard expansion)
>> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
>> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Matt
> 
> I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or Phobos 2. However, there is one in Tango. 
> 
> 

doost has one that works with Phobos. (http://dsource.org/projects/doost)

D2/Phobos2 has std.getopt.

There's a port std.getopt to D1 in the std2 project: http://www.dsource.org/projects/std2

There's a simple port of BSD's getopt in OpenMesh/D:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/openmeshd/browser/trunk/OpenMeshD/OpenMesh/Tools/Utils/getopt.d

--bb

July 04, 2008
"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g4ju5s$2dh0$1@digitalmars.com...
> "Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
>> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
>>
>> In particular:
>> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard
>> expansion)
>> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
>> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Matt
>
> I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or Phobos
> 2.
> However, there is one in Tango.
>

Command-line parsing is one of the big reasons I really wish D had C#/Java style attributes. I came across this one particular C# command-line parser (written by a Peter Hallam) a few years ago and absolutely fell in love with it, and by extention, attributes. (I'd link to it, but it was on GotDotNet, which MS replaced with something else and didn't move this particular program over. So I'm attaching the lastest version I have (only about 11k), even though there are newer versions...somewhere.)

Just check out how awesomely simple it makes this sample case:

BEGIN CODE
class WCArguments
{
    public bool lines;
    public bool words;
    public bool chars;
    [Utilities.DefaultCommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.MultipleUnique)]
    public string[] files;

    [Utilities.CommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.AtMostOnce,
ShortName = "num")]
    public int number;
    public string[] junk;
}

class WC
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        WCArguments parsedArgs = new WCArguments();
        if (!Utilities.Utility.ParseCommandLineArguments(args, parsedArgs))
        {
            // error encountered in arguments. Display usage message
            System.Console.Write(Utilities.Utility.CommandLineArgumentsUsage(typeof(WCArguments)));
        }
        else
        {
            // insert application code here
        }
    }
}
END CODE

The WCArguments class is itself the very definition of the program's command-line arguments. And attributes can be used to specify things like "DefaultCommandLineArgument", "MultipleUnique", "AtMostOnce", "ShortName", "Required", etc. Later versions include automatically-generated help screens. And the command-line syntax is the same ultra-clean-consistent-and-unambiguous commandline syntax that MS's command-line .NET tools use.

D2 could probably come close to this with its compile-time reflection, but I don't think there'd be a comparably simple way to specify the things that this uses attributes for.



July 04, 2008
Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> > "Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
> >> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
> >>
> >> In particular:
> >> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard
> >> expansion)
> >> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
> >> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Matt
> > 
> > I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or Phobos 2. However, there is one in Tango.
> > 
> > 
> 
> doost has one that works with Phobos. (http://dsource.org/projects/doost)
> 
> D2/Phobos2 has std.getopt.
> 
> There's a port std.getopt to D1 in the std2 project: http://www.dsource.org/projects/std2
> 
> There's a simple port of BSD's getopt in OpenMesh/D: http://www.dsource.org/projects/openmeshd/browser/trunk/OpenMeshD/OpenMesh/Tools/Utils/getopt.d
> 
> --bb

there's one in tango too but it takes 20 lines to do anything, as most others do. create a freakin' "command line object". give me a lunch break. std.getopt in phobos is best in the world for my money. and across all languages for that matter. could never imagine do so much shit in one call.
July 04, 2008
superdan Wrote:

> Bill Baxter Wrote:
> 
> > Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> > > "Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
> > >> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
> > >>
> > >> In particular:
> > >> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard
> > >> expansion)
> > >> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
> > >> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >>
> > >> Matt
> > > 
> > > I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or Phobos 2. However, there is one in Tango.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > doost has one that works with Phobos. (http://dsource.org/projects/doost)
> > 
> > D2/Phobos2 has std.getopt.
> > 
> > There's a port std.getopt to D1 in the std2 project: http://www.dsource.org/projects/std2
> > 
> > There's a simple port of BSD's getopt in OpenMesh/D: http://www.dsource.org/projects/openmeshd/browser/trunk/OpenMeshD/OpenMesh/Tools/Utils/getopt.d
> > 
> > --bb
> 
> there's one in tango too but it takes 20 lines to do anything, as most others do. create a freakin' "command line object". give me a lunch break. std.getopt in phobos is best in the world for my money. and across all languages for that matter. could never imagine do so much shit in one call.

i meant "doing" not "do". shit. you see folks when i focus on not fuckshitting and not using vernacular my grammar nerve gets anesthesia.
July 04, 2008
Matt wrote:
> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_getopt.html
July 04, 2008
"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:g4k93l$1mh$1@digitalmars.com...
> "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g4ju5s$2dh0$1@digitalmars.com...
>> "Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
>>> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
>>>
>>> In particular:
>>> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard
>>> expansion)
>>> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
>>> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Matt
>>
>> I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or Phobos
>> 2.
>> However, there is one in Tango.
>>
>
> Command-line parsing is one of the big reasons I really wish D had C#/Java style attributes. I came across this one particular C# command-line parser (written by a Peter Hallam) a few years ago and absolutely fell in love with it, and by extention, attributes. (I'd link to it, but it was on GotDotNet, which MS replaced with something else and didn't move this particular program over. So I'm attaching the lastest version I have (only about 11k), even though there are newer versions...somewhere.)
>
> Just check out how awesomely simple it makes this sample case:
>
> BEGIN CODE
> class WCArguments
> {
>    public bool lines;
>    public bool words;
>    public bool chars;
> 
> [Utilities.DefaultCommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.MultipleUnique)]
>    public string[] files;
>
> 
> [Utilities.CommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.AtMostOnce,
> ShortName = "num")]
>    public int number;
>    public string[] junk;
> }
>
> class WC
> {
>    static void Main(string[] args)
>    {
>        WCArguments parsedArgs = new WCArguments();
>        if (!Utilities.Utility.ParseCommandLineArguments(args, parsedArgs))
>        {
>            // error encountered in arguments. Display usage message
> 
> System.Console.Write(Utilities.Utility.CommandLineArgumentsUsage(typeof(WCArguments)));
>        }
>        else
>        {
>            // insert application code here
>        }
>    }
> }
> END CODE
>
> The WCArguments class is itself the very definition of the program's command-line arguments. And attributes can be used to specify things like "DefaultCommandLineArgument", "MultipleUnique", "AtMostOnce", "ShortName", "Required", etc. Later versions include automatically-generated help screens. And the command-line syntax is the same ultra-clean-consistent-and-unambiguous commandline syntax that MS's command-line .NET tools use.
>
> D2 could probably come close to this with its compile-time reflection, but I don't think there'd be a comparably simple way to specify the things that this uses attributes for.
>

I just took a look at Phobos2's getopt. It's impressively code to this in functionality. But I still think this is much cleaner and more DRY ("drier"?)


July 04, 2008
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:g4k93l$1mh$1@digitalmars.com...
> > "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g4ju5s$2dh0$1@digitalmars.com...
> >> "Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
> >>> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
> >>>
> >>> In particular:
> >>> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard
> >>> expansion)
> >>> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
> >>> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Matt
> >>
> >> I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or Phobos
> >> 2.
> >> However, there is one in Tango.
> >>
> >
> > Command-line parsing is one of the big reasons I really wish D had C#/Java style attributes. I came across this one particular C# command-line parser (written by a Peter Hallam) a few years ago and absolutely fell in love with it, and by extention, attributes. (I'd link to it, but it was on GotDotNet, which MS replaced with something else and didn't move this particular program over. So I'm attaching the lastest version I have (only about 11k), even though there are newer versions...somewhere.)
> >
> > Just check out how awesomely simple it makes this sample case:
> >
> > BEGIN CODE
> > class WCArguments
> > {
> >    public bool lines;
> >    public bool words;
> >    public bool chars;
> > 
> > [Utilities.DefaultCommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.MultipleUnique)]
> >    public string[] files;
> >
> > 
> > [Utilities.CommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.AtMostOnce,
> > ShortName = "num")]
> >    public int number;
> >    public string[] junk;
> > }
> >
> > class WC
> > {
> >    static void Main(string[] args)
> >    {
> >        WCArguments parsedArgs = new WCArguments();
> >        if (!Utilities.Utility.ParseCommandLineArguments(args, parsedArgs))
> >        {
> >            // error encountered in arguments. Display usage message
> > 
> > System.Console.Write(Utilities.Utility.CommandLineArgumentsUsage(typeof(WCArguments)));
> >        }
> >        else
> >        {
> >            // insert application code here
> >        }
> >    }
> > }
> > END CODE
> >
> > The WCArguments class is itself the very definition of the program's command-line arguments. And attributes can be used to specify things like "DefaultCommandLineArgument", "MultipleUnique", "AtMostOnce", "ShortName", "Required", etc. Later versions include automatically-generated help screens. And the command-line syntax is the same ultra-clean-consistent-and-unambiguous commandline syntax that MS's command-line .NET tools use.
> >
> > D2 could probably come close to this with its compile-time reflection, but I don't think there'd be a comparably simple way to specify the things that this uses attributes for.
> >
> 
> I just took a look at Phobos2's getopt. It's impressively code to this in functionality. But I still think this is much cleaner and more DRY ("drier"?)
> 
> 

in the words of the annoying chick in friends: oh....... my....... god! how could that dung be better than this?

void main(string[] args)
{
    bool lines = true, words = true, chars = true;
    string[] files;
    int number;

    getopt(args,
        "lines", &lines,
        "words", &words,
        "lines", &lines,
        "files", &files,
        "num", &number);
    ........
}

this does everything that does /without/ adding a new class and redundant shit in square brackets. the fact that there could be multiple files is inferred from the type string[]. no new class, no attributes, no mess. shit man that c# stuff really blows. awesomely blows if you wish. how can anyone like that shit. to say nothing about the no-good generated help string that always is too short and uninformative to help shit.

p.s. look! i wrote an entire post and no fuck! fuck me but this is weird. oops i fucked up again. :)
July 04, 2008
"superdan" <super@dan.org> wrote in message news:g4kit6$nuq$1@digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> "Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:g4k93l$1mh$1@digitalmars.com...
>> > "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g4ju5s$2dh0$1@digitalmars.com...
>> >> "Matt" <no-one@none.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:g4jqum$269v$1@digitalmars.com...
>> >>> Is there an established library in D for handling command-line arguments?
>> >>>
>> >>> In particular:
>> >>> - handling differences between Windows and UNIX shells (i.e. wildcard
>> >>> expansion)
>> >>> - handling equivalent options such as "-n 10" === --count=10
>> >>> - handling combination of multiple flags, e.g. "-lcf" == "-l -f -c"
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks
>> >>>
>> >>> Matt
>> >>
>> >> I don't believe there is an argument parser in either Phobos 1 or
>> >> Phobos
>> >> 2.
>> >> However, there is one in Tango.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Command-line parsing is one of the big reasons I really wish D had
>> > C#/Java
>> > style attributes. I came across this one particular C# command-line
>> > parser
>> > (written by a Peter Hallam) a few years ago and absolutely fell in love
>> > with it, and by extention, attributes. (I'd link to it, but it was on
>> > GotDotNet, which MS replaced with something else and didn't move this
>> > particular program over. So I'm attaching the lastest version I have
>> > (only
>> > about 11k), even though there are newer versions...somewhere.)
>> >
>> > Just check out how awesomely simple it makes this sample case:
>> >
>> > BEGIN CODE
>> > class WCArguments
>> > {
>> >    public bool lines;
>> >    public bool words;
>> >    public bool chars;
>> >
>> > [Utilities.DefaultCommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.MultipleUnique)]
>> >    public string[] files;
>> >
>> >
>> > [Utilities.CommandLineArgument(Utilities.CommandLineArgumentType.AtMostOnce,
>> > ShortName = "num")]
>> >    public int number;
>> >    public string[] junk;
>> > }
>> >
>> > class WC
>> > {
>> >    static void Main(string[] args)
>> >    {
>> >        WCArguments parsedArgs = new WCArguments();
>> >        if (!Utilities.Utility.ParseCommandLineArguments(args,
>> > parsedArgs))
>> >        {
>> >            // error encountered in arguments. Display usage message
>> >
>> > System.Console.Write(Utilities.Utility.CommandLineArgumentsUsage(typeof(WCArguments)));
>> >        }
>> >        else
>> >        {
>> >            // insert application code here
>> >        }
>> >    }
>> > }
>> > END CODE
>> >
>> > The WCArguments class is itself the very definition of the program's
>> > command-line arguments. And attributes can be used to specify things
>> > like
>> > "DefaultCommandLineArgument", "MultipleUnique", "AtMostOnce",
>> > "ShortName",
>> > "Required", etc. Later versions include automatically-generated help
>> > screens. And the command-line syntax is the same
>> > ultra-clean-consistent-and-unambiguous commandline syntax that MS's
>> > command-line .NET tools use.
>> >
>> > D2 could probably come close to this with its compile-time reflection,
>> > but
>> > I don't think there'd be a comparably simple way to specify the things
>> > that this uses attributes for.
>> >
>>
>> I just took a look at Phobos2's getopt. It's impressively code to this in functionality. But I still think this is much cleaner and more DRY ("drier"?)
>>
>>
>
> in the words of the annoying chick in friends: oh....... my....... god! how could that dung be better than this?
>
> void main(string[] args)
> {
>    bool lines = true, words = true, chars = true;
>    string[] files;
>    int number;
>
>    getopt(args,
>        "lines", &lines,
>        "words", &words,
>        "lines", &lines,
>        "files", &files,
>        "num", &number);
>    ........
> }
>
> this does everything that does /without/ adding a new class and redundant shit in square brackets. the fact that there could be multiple files is inferred from the type string[]. no new class, no attributes, no mess. shit man that c# stuff really blows. awesomely blows if you wish. how can anyone like that shit. to say nothing about the no-good generated help string that always is too short and uninformative to help shit.
>
> p.s. look! i wrote an entire post and no fuck! fuck me but this is weird. oops i fucked up again. :)

The getopt version forces you to list each variable three times. Once for the variable itself, once more to tell getopt what it's called, and a third time to tell getopt where it is. That's highly redundant. They're only listed once for the C# version.  (The getopt version could probably be changed to extract the name from the variable using templates and traits though, and it could probably eliminate the rest of that redundancy by sticking the vars into a class or stuct, but then it would lose the ability to let you specify options for each var. Attributes would bring that ability back without creating reduncancy).

Regarding the C# version:
- Sticking the variable declarations inside a class is trivial.
- All of the stuff in square brackets (attributes) are optional.
(If you do specify any attributes, then the AttributeType is required,
however I was able to remove that restriction in about two minutes by adding
two trivial constructors.)
- You can specify a custom help string for each element.
- The fact that there could be multiple files *IS* inferred by using an
array of strings. (At least if you don't use any attributes, that is. But
that can be fixed fairly easily too.)

If anyone's interested, I found a link: http://www.codeplex.com/CommandLineArguments



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