package cli import ( "fmt" "strings" cmds "github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/commands" ) const ( requiredArg = "<%v>" optionalArg = "[<%v>]" variadicArg = "%v..." optionFlag = "-%v" optionType = "(%v)" whitespace = "\r\n\t " ) // HelpText returns a formatted CLI helptext string, generated for the given command func HelpText(rootName string, root *cmds.Command, path []string) (string, error) { cmd, err := root.Get(path) if err != nil { return "", err } s := "" usage := usageText(cmd) if len(usage) > 0 { usage += " " } s += fmt.Sprintf("%v %v %v- %v\n\n", rootName, strings.Join(path, " "), usage, cmd.Description) if len(cmd.Help) > 0 { s += fmt.Sprintf("%v\n\n", strings.Trim(cmd.Help, whitespace)) } if cmd.Arguments != nil { lines := indent(argumentText(cmd), " ") s += fmt.Sprintf("Arguments:\n%v\n\n", strings.Join(lines, "\n")) } if cmd.Subcommands != nil { lines := indent(subcommandText(cmd, rootName, path), " ") s += fmt.Sprintf("Subcommands:\n%v\n\n", strings.Join(lines, "\n")) } if cmd.Options != nil { lines := indent(optionText(cmd), " ") s += fmt.Sprintf("Options:\n%v\n\n", strings.Join(lines, "\n")) } return s, nil } func argumentText(cmd *cmds.Command) []string { lines := make([]string, len(cmd.Arguments)) for i, arg := range cmd.Arguments { lines[i] = argUsageText(arg) lines[i] += "\n" + arg.Description lines[i] = indentString(lines[i], " ") + "\n" } return lines } func optionText(cmd ...*cmds.Command) []string { // get a slice of the options we want to list out options := make([]cmds.Option, 0) for _, c := range cmd { for _, opt := range c.Options { options = append(options, opt) } } // add option names to output (with each name aligned) lines := make([]string, 0) j := 0 for { done := true i := 0 for _, opt := range options { if len(lines) < i+1 { lines = append(lines, "") } if len(opt.Names) >= j+1 { lines[i] += fmt.Sprintf(optionFlag, opt.Names[j]) } if len(opt.Names) > j+1 { lines[i] += ", " done = false } i++ } if done { break } lines = align(lines) j++ } // add option types to output for i, opt := range options { lines[i] += " " + fmt.Sprintf(optionType, opt.Type) } lines = align(lines) // add option descriptions to output for i, opt := range options { lines[i] += "\n" + opt.Description lines[i] = indentString(lines[i], " ") + "\n" } return lines } func subcommandText(cmd *cmds.Command, rootName string, path []string) []string { prefix := fmt.Sprintf("%v %v", rootName, strings.Join(path, " ")) if len(path) > 0 { prefix += " " } lines := make([]string, len(cmd.Subcommands)) i := 0 for name, sub := range cmd.Subcommands { usage := usageText(sub) lines[i] = fmt.Sprintf("%v%v %v", prefix, name, usage) lines[i] += fmt.Sprintf("\n%v", sub.Description) lines[i] = indentString(lines[i], " ") + "\n" i++ } return lines } func usageText(cmd *cmds.Command) string { s := "" for i, arg := range cmd.Arguments { if i != 0 { s += " " } s += argUsageText(arg) } return s } func argUsageText(arg cmds.Argument) string { s := arg.Name if arg.Required { s = fmt.Sprintf(requiredArg, s) } else { s = fmt.Sprintf(optionalArg, s) } if arg.Variadic { s = fmt.Sprintf(variadicArg, s) } return s } func align(lines []string) []string { longest := 0 for _, line := range lines { length := len(line) if length > longest { longest = length } } for i, line := range lines { length := len(line) if length > 0 { lines[i] += strings.Repeat(" ", longest-length) } } return lines } func indent(lines []string, prefix string) []string { for i, line := range lines { lines[i] = prefix + indentString(line, prefix) } return lines } func indentString(line string, prefix string) string { return strings.Replace(line, "\n", "\n"+prefix, -1) }