package cli import ( "flag" "strings" ) type iterativeParser interface { newFlagSet() (*flag.FlagSet, error) useShortOptionHandling() bool } // To enable short-option handling (e.g., "-it" vs "-i -t") we have to // iteratively catch parsing errors. This way we achieve LR parsing without // transforming any arguments. Otherwise, there is no way we can discriminate // combined short options from common arguments that should be left untouched. // Pass `shellComplete` to continue parsing options on failure during shell // completion when, the user-supplied options may be incomplete. func parseIter(set *flag.FlagSet, ip iterativeParser, args []string, shellComplete bool) error { for { err := set.Parse(args) if !ip.useShortOptionHandling() || err == nil { if shellComplete { return nil } return err } trimmed, trimErr := flagFromError(err) if trimErr != nil { return err } // regenerate the initial args with the split short opts argsWereSplit := false for i, arg := range args { // skip args that are not part of the error message if name := strings.TrimLeft(arg, "-"); name != trimmed { continue } // if we can't split, the error was accurate shortOpts := splitShortOptions(set, arg) if len(shortOpts) == 1 { return err } // swap current argument with the split version // do not include args that parsed correctly so far as it would // trigger Value.Set() on those args and would result in // duplicates for slice type flags args = append(shortOpts, args[i+1:]...) argsWereSplit = true break } // This should be an impossible to reach code path, but in case the arg // splitting failed to happen, this will prevent infinite loops if !argsWereSplit { return err } } } const providedButNotDefinedErrMsg = "flag provided but not defined: -" // flagFromError tries to parse a provided flag from an error message. If the // parsing fials, it returns the input error and an empty string func flagFromError(err error) (string, error) { errStr := err.Error() trimmed := strings.TrimPrefix(errStr, providedButNotDefinedErrMsg) if errStr == trimmed { return "", err } return trimmed, nil } func splitShortOptions(set *flag.FlagSet, arg string) []string { shortFlagsExist := func(s string) bool { for _, c := range s[1:] { if f := set.Lookup(string(c)); f == nil { return false } } return true } if !isSplittable(arg) || !shortFlagsExist(arg) { return []string{arg} } separated := make([]string, 0, len(arg)-1) for _, flagChar := range arg[1:] { separated = append(separated, "-"+string(flagChar)) } return separated } func isSplittable(flagArg string) bool { return strings.HasPrefix(flagArg, "-") && !strings.HasPrefix(flagArg, "--") && len(flagArg) > 2 }