Command Line Interface made simpler

The main goal of this package is to avoid being too tightly coupled with existing CLI framework.

Motivation

As of today, there are some very nice frameworks to use to handle command line interface; one of them is spf13/cobra; but it is not super obvious how to create something decoupled from cobra.

Why would someone want to do that ?

• i was using spf13/cobra and wanted to try urfave/cli and it implied quite a lot of changes to my application
• i tried to avoid using a framework, but I was reinventing a lot of stuff
• frameworks expose you to a lot of features, but it comes with a lot of concepts, and two different frameworks does not necessarily come with the same concepts nor the same implementation

I did not want to recreate yet a new CLI framework to solve my problem because existing ones already are complete, but I am not using a lot of features and I wanted to keep things simple to use, simple to test, and simple to extend.

Usage

The simplest command is defined by implementing the Command interface

type myCommand struct{}
func (myCommand) Execute(ctx context.Context, args []string, dashedArgs []string) error {
	return nil
}

func main() {
	cmd := cli.NewCommand(myCommand{})
	err := spf13cobra.Execute(context.Background(), os.Args, cmd)
	cli.Exit(err)
}

This will create a CLI with one root command. This CLI is then mapped to be executed by the spf13/cobra framework.

A more useful / complex example can be found in internal/example.