notmuch/command-line-arguments.h
David Bremner 2cf7b27a0c command-line-arguments.[ch]: new argument parsing framework for notmuch.
As we noticed when Jani kindly converted things to getopt_long, much
of the work in argument parsing in notmuch is due to the the key-value
style arguments like --format=(raw|json|text).

The framework here provides positional arguments, simple switches,
and --key=value style arguments that can take a value being an integer,
a string, or one of a set of keywords.
2011-12-08 20:24:24 -04:00

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#ifndef NOTMUCH_OPTS_H
#define NOTMUCH_OPTS_H
#include "notmuch.h"
enum notmuch_opt_type {
NOTMUCH_OPT_END = 0,
NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, /* --verbose */
NOTMUCH_OPT_INT, /* --frob=8 */
NOTMUCH_OPT_KEYWORD, /* --format=raw|json|text */
NOTMUCH_OPT_STRING, /* --file=/tmp/gnarf.txt */
NOTMUCH_OPT_POSITION /* notmuch dump pos_arg */
};
/*
* Describe one of the possibilities for a keyword option
* 'value' will be copied to the output variable
*/
typedef struct notmuch_keyword {
const char *name;
int value;
} notmuch_keyword_t;
/*
* Describe one option.
*
* First two parameters are mandatory.
*
* name is mandatory _except_ for positional arguments.
*
* arg_id is currently unused, but could define short arguments.
*
* keywords is a (possibly NULL) pointer to an array of keywords
*/
typedef struct notmuch_opt_desc {
enum notmuch_opt_type opt_type;
void *output_var;
const char *name;
int arg_id;
struct notmuch_keyword *keywords;
} notmuch_opt_desc_t;
/*
This is the main entry point for command line argument parsing.
Parse command line arguments according to structure options,
starting at position opt_index.
All output of parsed values is via pointers in options.
Parsing stops at -- (consumed) or at the (k+1)st argument
not starting with -- (a "positional argument") if options contains
k positional argument descriptors.
Returns the index of first non-parsed argument, or -1 in case of error.
*/
int
parse_arguments (int argc, char **argv, const notmuch_opt_desc_t *options, int opt_index);
/*
* If the argument parsing loop provided by parse_arguments is not
* flexible enough, then the user might be interested in the following
* routines, but note that the API to parse_option might have to
* change. See command-line-arguments.c for descriptions of these
* functions.
*/
notmuch_bool_t
parse_option (const char *arg, const notmuch_opt_desc_t* options);
notmuch_bool_t
parse_position_arg (const char *arg,
int position_arg_index,
const notmuch_opt_desc_t* options);
#endif