Renamed helpEx to helpFull and added a new helpEx that wraps helpFull

2 files changed, 44 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e9d1709..2bc86a6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Ofc, this limits you to use only parameters that are comptime known.
 
 ### `help`
 
-The `help` and `helpEx` are functions for printing a simple list of all parameters the
+The `help`, `helpEx` and `helpFull` are functions for printing a simple list of all parameters the
 program can take.
 
 ```rust
@@ -142,41 +142,7 @@ The `help` function is the simplest to call. It only takes an `OutStream` and a
 `Param([]const u8)`. This function assumes that the id of each parameter is the help message.
 
 The `helpEx` is the generic version of `help`. It can print a help message for any
-`Param`, but requires some extra arguments to work.
+`Param` give that the caller provides functions for getting the help and value strings.
 
-```rust
-fn getHelp(_: void, param: clap.Param(u8)) error{}![]const u8 {
-    return switch (param.id) {
-        'h' => "Display this help and exit.",
-        'v' => "Output version information and exit.",
-        else => unreachable,
-    };
-}
-
-fn getValue(_: void, param: clap.Param(u8)) error{}![]const u8 {
-    return "";
-}
-
-const stderr_file = try std.io.getStdErr();
-var stderr_out_stream = stderr_file.outStream();
-const stderr = &stderr_out_stream.stream;
-
-try stderr.print("\n");
-try clap.helpEx(
-    stderr,
-    u8,
-    []clap.Param(u8){
-        clap.Param(u8).flag('h', clap.Names.prefix("help")),
-        clap.Param(u8).flag('v', clap.Names.prefix("version")),
-    },
-    error{},
-    {},
-    getHelp,
-    getValue,
-);
-```
-
-```
-        -h, --help      Display this help and exit.
-        -v, --version   Output version information and exit.
-```
+The `helpFull` is even more generic, allowing the functions that get the help and value strings
+to return errors and take a context as a parameter.
diff --git a/src/index.zig b/src/index.zig
index 0914176..e85470c 100644
--- a/src/index.zig
+++ b/src/index.zig
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ pub fn Param(comptime Id: type) type {
 ///     -s, --long=value_text help_text
 ///     -s,                   help_text
 ///         --long            help_text
-pub fn helpEx(
+pub fn helpFull(
     stream: var,
     comptime Id: type,
     params: []const Param(Id),
@@ -173,17 +173,53 @@ fn printParam(
         try stream.print("={}", value_text(context, param));
 }
 
+/// A wrapper around helpFull for simple help_text and value_text functions that
+/// cant return an error or take a context.
+pub fn helpEx(
+    stream: var,
+    comptime Id: type,
+    params: []const Param(Id),
+    help_text: fn(Param(Id)) []const u8,
+    value_text: fn(Param(Id)) []const u8,
+) !void {
+    const Context = struct {
+        help_text: fn(Param(Id)) []const u8,
+        value_text: fn(Param(Id)) []const u8,
+
+        pub fn help(c: @This(), p: Param(Id)) error{}![]const u8 {
+            return c.help_text(p);
+        }
+
+        pub fn value(c: @This(), p: Param(Id)) error{}![]const u8 {
+            return c.value_text(p);
+        }
+    };
+
+    return helpFull(
+        stream,
+        Id,
+        params,
+        error{},
+        Context{
+            .help_text = help_text,
+            .value_text = value_text,
+        },
+        Context.help,
+        Context.value,
+    );
+}
+
 /// A wrapper around helpEx that takes a Param([]const u8) and uses the string id
 /// as the help text for each paramter.
 pub fn help(stream: var, params: []const Param([]const u8)) !void {
-    try helpEx(stream, []const u8, params, error{}, {}, getHelpSimple, getValueSimple);
+    try helpEx(stream, []const u8, params, getHelpSimple, getValueSimple);
 }
 
-fn getHelpSimple(context: void, param: Param([]const u8)) error{}![]const u8 {
+fn getHelpSimple(param: Param([]const u8)) []const u8 {
     return param.id;
 }
 
-fn getValueSimple(context: void, param: Param([]const u8)) error{}![]const u8 {
+fn getValueSimple(param: Param([]const u8)) []const u8 {
     return "VALUE";
 }