notmuch/command-line-arguments.h
Jani Nikula 4a6721970a cli: use designated initializers for opt desc
Several changes at once, just to not have to change the same lines
several times over:

- Use designated initializers to initialize opt desc arrays.

- Only initialize the needed fields.

- Remove arg_id (short options) as unused.

- Replace opt_type and output_var with several type safe output
  variables, where the output variable being non-NULL determines the
  type. Introduce checks to ensure only one is set. The downside is
  some waste of const space per argument; this could be saved by
  retaining opt_type and using a union, but that's still pretty
  verbose.

- Fix some variables due to the type safety. Mostly a good thing, but
  leads to some enums being changed to ints. This is pedantically
  correct, but somewhat annoying. We could also cast, but that defeats
  the purpose a bit.

- Terminate the opt desc arrays using {}.

The output variable type safety and the ability to add new fields for
just some output types or arguments are the big wins. For example, if
we wanted to add a variable to set when the argument is present, we
could do so for just the arguments that need it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think this looks nice when
defining the arguments, and reduces some of the verbosity we have
there.
2017-10-04 22:00:42 -03:00

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#ifndef NOTMUCH_OPTS_H
#define NOTMUCH_OPTS_H
#include "notmuch.h"
/*
* 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. */
typedef struct notmuch_opt_desc {
/* One and only one of opt_* must be set. */
const struct notmuch_opt_desc *opt_inherit;
notmuch_bool_t *opt_bool;
int *opt_int;
int *opt_keyword;
int *opt_flags;
const char **opt_string;
const char **opt_position;
/* Must be set except for opt_inherit and opt_position. */
const char *name;
/* Must be set for opt_keyword and opt_flags. */
const 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.
*/
int
parse_option (int argc, char **argv, const notmuch_opt_desc_t* options, int opt_index);
notmuch_bool_t
parse_position_arg (const char *arg,
int position_arg_index,
const notmuch_opt_desc_t* options);
#endif