/* You can use this directly to build tables, but the macros will ensure
* consistency and type safety. */
-enum opt_flags {
- OPT_NOARG = 1, /* -f/--foo */
- OPT_HASARG = 2, /* -f arg/--foo=arg/--foo arg */
+enum opt_type {
+ OPT_NOARG = 1, /* -f|--foo */
+ OPT_HASARG = 2, /* -f arg|--foo=arg|--foo arg */
OPT_SUBTABLE = 4, /* Actually, longopt points to a subtable... */
OPT_END = 8, /* End of the table. */
};
#define OPT_SHOW_LEN 80
struct opt_table {
- const char *longopt; /* --longopt, or NULL */
- char shortopt; /* -s, or 0 */
- enum opt_flags flags;
+ const char *names; /* pipe-separated names, --longopt or -s */
+ enum opt_type type;
char *(*cb)(void *arg); /* OPT_NOARG */
char *(*cb_arg)(const char *optarg, void *arg); /* OPT_HASARG */
void (*show)(char buf[OPT_SHOW_LEN], const void *arg);
/**
* OPT_WITHOUT_ARG() - macro for initializing an opt_table entry (without arg)
- * @longopt: the name of the argument (eg. "foo" for "--foo"), or NULL.
- * @shortopt: the character of the argument (eg. 'f' for "-f"), or 0.
+ * @names: the names of the option eg. "--foo", "-f" or "--foo|-f|--foobar".
* @cb: the callback when the option is found.
* @arg: the argument to hand to @cb.
+ * @desc: the description for opt_usage(), or opt_hidden.
*
* This is a typesafe wrapper for intializing a struct opt_table. The callback
* of type "char *cb(type *)", "char *cb(const type *)" or "char *cb(void *)",
* where "type" is the type of the @arg argument.
*
- * At least one of @longopt and @shortopt must be non-zero. If the
- * @cb returns non-NULL, opt_parse() will stop parsing, use the returned
- * string to form an error message, free() the string and return false.
+ * If the @cb returns non-NULL, opt_parse() will stop parsing, use the
+ * returned string to form an error message for errlog(), free() the
+ * string and return false.
+ *
+ * Any number of equivalent short or long options can be listed in @names,
+ * separated by '|'. Short options are a single hyphen followed by a single
+ * character, long options are two hypens followed by one or more characters.
*
* See Also:
* OPT_WITH_ARG()
*/
-#define OPT_WITHOUT_ARG(longopt, shortopt, cb, arg) \
- (longopt), (shortopt), OPT_CB_NOARG((cb), (arg))
+#define OPT_WITHOUT_ARG(names, cb, arg, desc) \
+ { (names), OPT_CB_NOARG((cb), (arg)), (desc) }
/**
* OPT_WITH_ARG() - macro for initializing long and short option (with arg)
- * @longopt: the name of the argument (eg. "foo" for "--foo <arg>"), or NULL.
- * @shortopt: the character of the argument (eg. 'f' for "-f <arg>"), or 0.
+ * @names: the option names eg. "--foo=<arg>", "-f" or "-f|--foo <arg>".
* @cb: the callback when the option is found (along with <arg>).
* @show: the callback to print the value in get_usage (or NULL)
* @arg: the argument to hand to @cb and @show
+ * @desc: the description for opt_usage(), or opt_hidden.
*
* This is a typesafe wrapper for intializing a struct opt_table. The callback
* is of type "char *cb(const char *, type *)",
* argument; unless it uses the entire OPT_SHOW_LEN bytes it should
* nul-terminate that buffer.
*
- * At least one of @longopt and @shortopt must be non-zero. If the
- * @cb returns false, opt_parse() will stop parsing and return false.
+ * Any number of equivalent short or long options can be listed in @names,
+ * separated by '|'. Short options are a single hyphen followed by a single
+ * character, long options are two hypens followed by one or more characters.
+ * A space or equals in @names is ignored for parsing, and only used
+ * for printing the usage.
+ *
+ * If the @cb returns non-NULL, opt_parse() will stop parsing, use the
+ * returned string to form an error message for errlog(), free() the
+ * string and return false.
*
* See Also:
* OPT_WITHOUT_ARG()
*/
-#define OPT_WITH_ARG(longopt, shortopt, cb, show, arg) \
- (longopt), (shortopt), OPT_CB_ARG((cb), (show), (arg))
+#define OPT_WITH_ARG(name, cb, show, arg, desc) \
+ { (name), OPT_CB_ARG((cb), (show), (arg)), (desc) }
/**
* OPT_SUBTABLE() - macro for including another table inside a table.
* @table: the table to include in this table.
* @desc: description of this subtable (for opt_usage()) or NULL.
- *
- * The @desc field can be opt_table_hidden to hide the options from opt_usage().
*/
#define OPT_SUBTABLE(table, desc) \
- { (const char *)(table), sizeof(_check_is_entry(table)), \
- OPT_SUBTABLE, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, (desc) }
-
-/**
- * opt_table_hidden - string for undocumented option tables.
- *
- * This can be used as the desc option to OPT_SUBTABLE or passed to
- * opt_register_table() if you want the options not to be shown by
- * opt_usage().
- */
-extern const char opt_table_hidden[];
+ { (const char *)(table), OPT_SUBTABLE, \
+ sizeof(_check_is_entry(table)) ? NULL : NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, (desc) }
/**
* OPT_ENDTABLE - macro to create final entry in table.
*
* This must be the final element in the opt_table array.
*/
-#define OPT_ENDTABLE { NULL, 0, OPT_END }
+#define OPT_ENDTABLE { NULL, OPT_END }
/**
* opt_register_table - register a table of options
* The table must be terminated by OPT_ENDTABLE.
*
* Example:
+ * static int verbose = 0;
* static struct opt_table opts[] = {
- * { OPT_WITHOUT_ARG("verbose", 'v', opt_inc_intval, &verbose),
- * "Verbose mode (can be specified more than once)" },
- * { OPT_WITHOUT_ARG("usage", 0, opt_usage_and_exit,
- * "args...\nA silly test program."),
- * "Print this message." },
+ * OPT_WITHOUT_ARG("--verbose", opt_inc_intval, &verbose,
+ * "Verbose mode (can be specified more than once)"),
+ * OPT_WITHOUT_ARG("-v", opt_inc_intval, &verbose,
+ * "Verbose mode (can be specified more than once)"),
+ * OPT_WITHOUT_ARG("--usage", opt_usage_and_exit,
+ * "args...\nA silly test program.",
+ * "Print this message."),
* OPT_ENDTABLE
* };
*
/**
* opt_register_noarg - register an option with no arguments
- * @longopt: the name of the argument (eg. "foo" for "--foo"), or NULL.
- * @shortopt: the character of the argument (eg. 'f' for "-f"), or 0.
+ * @names: the names of the option eg. "--foo", "-f" or "--foo|-f|--foobar".
* @cb: the callback when the option is found.
* @arg: the argument to hand to @cb.
* @desc: the verbose desction of the option (for opt_usage()), or NULL.
* or "char *cb(void *)", where "type" is the type of the @arg
* argument.
*
- * At least one of @longopt and @shortopt must be non-zero. If the
- * @cb returns false, opt_parse() will stop parsing and return false.
+ * If the @cb returns non-NULL, opt_parse() will stop parsing, use the
+ * returned string to form an error message for errlog(), free() the
+ * string and return false.
*/
-#define opt_register_noarg(longopt, shortopt, cb, arg, desc) \
- _opt_register((longopt), (shortopt), OPT_CB_NOARG((cb), (arg)), (desc))
+#define opt_register_noarg(names, cb, arg, desc) \
+ _opt_register((names), OPT_CB_NOARG((cb), (arg)), (desc))
/**
* opt_register_arg - register an option with an arguments
- * @longopt: the name of the argument (eg. "foo" for "--foo"), or NULL.
- * @shortopt: the character of the argument (eg. 'f' for "-f"), or 0.
+ * @names: the names of the option eg. "--foo", "-f" or "--foo|-f|--foobar".
* @cb: the callback when the option is found.
- * @show: the callback when the option is found.
+ * @show: the callback to print the value in get_usage (or NULL)
* @arg: the argument to hand to @cb.
* @desc: the verbose desction of the option (for opt_usage()), or NULL.
*
* @cb returns false, opt_parse() will stop parsing and return false.
*
* Example:
- * opt_register_arg("explode", 'e', explode_cb, NULL,
- * "Make the machine explode (developers only)");
+ * static char *explode(const char *optarg, void *unused)
+ * {
+ * errx(1, "BOOM! %s", optarg);
+ * }
+ * ...
+ * opt_register_arg("--explode|--boom", explode, NULL, NULL, opt_hidden);
*/
-#define opt_register_arg(longopt, shortopt, cb, show, arg, desc) \
- _opt_register((longopt), (shortopt), OPT_CB_ARG((cb), (show), (arg)), (desc))
+#define opt_register_arg(names, cb, show, arg, desc) \
+ _opt_register((names), OPT_CB_ARG((cb), (show), (arg)), (desc))
/**
* opt_parse - parse arguments.
* @argc: pointer to argc
* @argv: argv array.
- * @errlog: the function to print errors (usually opt_log_stderr).
+ * @errlog: the function to print errors
*
* This iterates through the command line and calls callbacks registered with
* opt_register_table()/opt_register_arg()/opt_register_noarg(). If there
* remain, and true is returned.
*
* Example:
- * if (!opt_parse(argc, argv, opt_log_stderr)) {
- * printf("%s", opt_usage(argv[0], "<args>..."));
+ * if (!opt_parse(&argc, argv, opt_log_stderr)) {
+ * printf("You screwed up, aborting!\n");
* exit(1);
* }
+ *
+ * See Also:
+ * opt_log_stderr, opt_log_stderr_exit
*/
bool opt_parse(int *argc, char *argv[], void (*errlog)(const char *fmt, ...));
* opt_log_stderr - print message to stderr.
* @fmt: printf-style format.
*
- * This is the standard helper for opt_parse, to print errors.
+ * This is a helper for opt_parse, to print errors to stderr.
+ *
+ * See Also:
+ * opt_log_stderr_exit
*/
void opt_log_stderr(const char *fmt, ...);
+/**
+ * opt_log_stderr_exit - print message to stderr, then exit(1)
+ * @fmt: printf-style format.
+ *
+ * Just like opt_log_stderr, only then does exit(1). This means that
+ * when handed to opt_parse, opt_parse will never return false.
+ *
+ * Example:
+ * // This never returns false; just exits if there's an erorr.
+ * opt_parse(&argc, argv, opt_log_stderr_exit);
+ */
+void opt_log_stderr_exit(const char *fmt, ...);
+
/**
* opt_invalid_argument - helper to allocate an "Invalid argument '%s'" string
* @arg: the argument which was invalid.
* @extra: extra details to print after the initial command, or NULL.
*
* Creates a usage message, with the program name, arguments, some extra details
- * and a table of all the options with their descriptions.
+ * and a table of all the options with their descriptions. If an option has
+ * description opt_hidden, it is not shown here.
+ *
+ * If "extra" is NULL, then the extra information is taken from any
+ * registered option which calls opt_usage_and_exit(). This avoids duplicating
+ * that string in the common case.
*
* The result should be passed to free().
*/
char *opt_usage(const char *argv0, const char *extra);
+/**
+ * opt_hidden - string for undocumented options.
+ *
+ * This can be used as the desc parameter if you want an option not to be
+ * shown by opt_usage().
+ */
+extern const char opt_hidden[];
+
/* Standard helpers. You can write your own: */
/* Sets the @b to true. */
char *opt_set_bool(bool *b);
(arg)
/* Non-typesafe register function. */
-void _opt_register(const char *longopt, char shortopt, enum opt_flags flags,
+void _opt_register(const char *names, enum opt_type type,
char *(*cb)(void *arg),
char *(*cb_arg)(const char *optarg, void *arg),
void (*show)(char buf[OPT_SHOW_LEN], const void *arg),