From 1a219fc680faa79f1236912b14fd58754313df87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jimmi Holst Christensen
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:53:46 +0100
Subject: Added help function

---
 src/index.zig | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 134 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/index.zig b/src/index.zig
index 225eb9c..0914176 100644
--- a/src/index.zig
+++ b/src/index.zig
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 const std = @import("std");
 
 const debug = std.debug;
+const io = std.io;
+const mem = std.mem;
 
 pub const @"comptime" = @import("comptime.zig");
 pub const args = @import("args.zig");
@@ -106,3 +108,135 @@ pub fn Param(comptime Id: type) type {
         }
     };
 }
+
+/// Will print a help message in the following format:
+///     -s, --long=value_text help_text
+///     -s,                   help_text
+///         --long            help_text
+pub fn helpEx(
+    stream: var,
+    comptime Id: type,
+    params: []const Param(Id),
+    comptime Error: type,
+    context: var,
+    help_text: fn(@typeOf(context), Param(Id)) Error![]const u8,
+    value_text: fn(@typeOf(context), Param(Id)) Error![]const u8,
+) !void {
+    const max_spacing = blk: {
+        var null_stream = io.NullOutStream.init();
+        var res: usize = 0;
+        for (params) |param| {
+            var counting_stream = io.CountingOutStream(io.NullOutStream.Error).init(&null_stream.stream);
+            try printParam(&counting_stream.stream, Id, param, Error, context, value_text);
+            if (res < counting_stream.bytes_written)
+                res = counting_stream.bytes_written;
+        }
+
+        break :blk res;
+    };
+
+    for (params) |param| {
+        if (param.names.short == null and param.names.long == null)
+            continue;
+
+        var counting_stream = io.CountingOutStream(@typeOf(stream.*).Error).init(stream);
+        try stream.print("\t");
+        try printParam(&counting_stream.stream, Id, param, Error, context, value_text);
+        try stream.writeByteNTimes(' ', max_spacing - counting_stream.bytes_written);
+        try stream.print("\t{}\n", try help_text(context, param));
+    }
+}
+
+fn printParam(
+    stream: var,
+    comptime Id: type,
+    param: Param(Id),
+    comptime Error: type,
+    context: var,
+    value_text: fn(@typeOf(context), Param(Id)) Error![]const u8,
+) @typeOf(stream.*).Error!void {
+    if (param.names.short) |s| {
+        try stream.print("-{c}", s);
+    } else {
+        try stream.print("  ");
+    }
+    if (param.names.long) |l| {
+        if (param.names.short) |_| {
+            try stream.print(", ");
+        } else {
+            try stream.print("  ");
+        }
+
+        try stream.print("--{}", l);
+    }
+    if (param.takes_value)
+        try stream.print("={}", value_text(context, param));
+}
+
+/// 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);
+}
+
+fn getHelpSimple(context: void, param: Param([]const u8)) error{}![]const u8 {
+    return param.id;
+}
+
+fn getValueSimple(context: void, param: Param([]const u8)) error{}![]const u8 {
+    return "VALUE";
+}
+
+
+test "clap.help" {
+    var buf: [1024]u8 = undefined;
+    var slice_stream = io.SliceOutStream.init(buf[0..]);
+    try help(
+        &slice_stream.stream,
+        []Param([]const u8){
+            Param([]const u8).flag(
+                "Short flag.",
+                Names.short('a'),
+            ),
+            Param([]const u8).option(
+                "Short option.",
+                Names.short('b'),
+            ),
+            Param([]const u8).flag(
+                "Long flag.",
+                Names.long("aa"),
+            ),
+            Param([]const u8).option(
+                "Long option.",
+                Names.long("bb"),
+            ),
+            Param([]const u8).flag(
+                "Both flag.",
+                Names.prefix("cc"),
+            ),
+            Param([]const u8).option(
+                "Both option.",
+                Names.prefix("dd"),
+            ),
+            Param([]const u8).positional(
+                "Positional. This should not appear in the help message."
+            ),
+        },
+    );
+
+    const expected =
+        "\t-a            \tShort flag.\n" ++
+        "\t-b=VALUE      \tShort option.\n" ++
+        "\t    --aa      \tLong flag.\n" ++
+        "\t    --bb=VALUE\tLong option.\n" ++
+        "\t-c, --cc      \tBoth flag.\n" ++
+        "\t-d, --dd=VALUE\tBoth option.\n";
+
+    if (!mem.eql(u8, slice_stream.getWritten(), expected)) {
+        debug.warn("============ Expected ============\n");
+        debug.warn("{}", expected);
+        debug.warn("============= Actual =============\n");
+        debug.warn("{}", slice_stream.getWritten());
+        return error.NoMatch;
+    }
+}
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