Help priority adjustment (#1106)

Move the help generation priority higher so it triggers before config
file processing.

Fixes #1099

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Get LCov
         run: |
-          wget https://github.com/linux-test-project/lcov/releases/download/v1.16/lcov-1.16.tar.gz
+          sudo apt-get install ca-certificates lcov
-          tar -xzf lcov-1.16.tar.gz
+          #wget https://github.com/linux-test-project/lcov/releases/download/v1.16/lcov-1.16.tar.gz
-          cd lcov-1.16
+          #tar -xzf lcov-1.16.tar.gz
-          sudo make install
+          #cd lcov-1.16
+          #sudo make install
 
       - name: Configure
         run: |
@@ -50,8 +51,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Prepare coverage
         run: |
-          lcov --directory . --capture --output-file coverage.info
+          lcov --ignore-errors gcov,mismatch --directory . --capture --output-file coverage.info
-          lcov --remove coverage.info '*/tests/*' '*/examples/*' '/usr/*' '*/book/*' '*/fuzz/*' --output-file coverage.info
+          lcov --remove coverage.info '*/tests/*' '/usr/*' --output-file coverage.info
           lcov --list coverage.info
         working-directory: build
 

cmake/CodeCoverage.cmake

@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ function(setup_target_for_coverage_lcov)
       ${Coverage_LCOV_ARGS}
       --gcov-tool
       ${GCOV_PATH}
+      --ignore-errors
+      mismatch
       -directory
       .
       -b
@@ -281,6 +283,8 @@ function(setup_target_for_coverage_lcov)
       ${Coverage_LCOV_ARGS}
       --gcov-tool
       ${GCOV_PATH}
+      --ignore-errors
+      mismatch
       -c
       -i
       -d
@@ -302,6 +306,8 @@ function(setup_target_for_coverage_lcov)
       -b
       ${BASEDIR}
       --capture
+      --ignore-errors
+      mismatch,gcov
       --output-file
       ${Coverage_NAME}.capture)
   # add baseline counters
@@ -314,6 +320,8 @@ function(setup_target_for_coverage_lcov)
       ${Coverage_NAME}.base
       -a
       ${Coverage_NAME}.capture
+      --ignore-errors
+      mismatch,gcov
       --output-file
       ${Coverage_NAME}.total)
   # filter collected data to final coverage report
@@ -322,14 +330,23 @@ function(setup_target_for_coverage_lcov)
       ${Coverage_LCOV_ARGS}
       --gcov-tool
       ${GCOV_PATH}
+      --ignore-errors
+      mismatch,mismatch,gcov
       --remove
       ${Coverage_NAME}.total
       ${LCOV_EXCLUDES}
       --output-file
       ${Coverage_NAME}.info)
   # Generate HTML output
-  set(LCOV_GEN_HTML_CMD ${GENHTML_PATH} ${GENHTML_EXTRA_ARGS} ${Coverage_GENHTML_ARGS} -o
+  set(LCOV_GEN_HTML_CMD
-                        ${Coverage_NAME} ${Coverage_NAME}.info)
+      ${GENHTML_PATH}
+      ${GENHTML_EXTRA_ARGS}
+      --ignore-errors
+      mismatch,mismatch
+      ${Coverage_GENHTML_ARGS}
+      -o
+      ${Coverage_NAME}
+      ${Coverage_NAME}.info)
   if(${Coverage_SONARQUBE})
     # Generate SonarQube output
     set(GCOVR_XML_CMD
@@ -347,7 +364,7 @@ function(setup_target_for_coverage_lcov)
         COMMENT "SonarQube code coverage info report saved in ${Coverage_NAME}_sonarqube.xml.")
   endif()
 
-  if(CODE_COVERAGE_VERBOSE)
+  if(CODE_COVERAGE_VERBOSE OR 1)
     message(STATUS "Executed command report")
     message(STATUS "Command to clean up lcov: ")
     string(REPLACE ";" " " LCOV_CLEAN_CMD_SPACED "${LCOV_CLEAN_CMD}")

include/CLI/TypeTools.hpp

@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ bool lexical_assign(const std::string &input, AssignTo &output) {
     }
 
     return lexical_cast(input, output);
-}
+}  // LCOV_EXCL_LINE
 
 /// Assign a value through lexical cast operations
 template <typename AssignTo,

include/CLI/impl/App_inl.hpp

@@ -1367,6 +1367,9 @@ CLI11_INLINE void App::_process_requirements() {
 }
 
 CLI11_INLINE void App::_process() {
+    // help takes precedence over other potential errors and config and environment shouldn't be processed if help
+    // throws
+    _process_help_flags();
     try {
         // the config file might generate a FileError but that should not be processed until later in the process
         // to allow for help, version and other errors to generate first.
@@ -1375,15 +1378,13 @@ CLI11_INLINE void App::_process() {
         // process env shouldn't throw but no reason to process it if config generated an error
         _process_env();
     } catch(const CLI::FileError &) {
-        // callbacks and help_flags can generate exceptions which should take priority
+        // callbacks can generate exceptions which should take priority
         // over the config file error if one exists.
         _process_callbacks();
-        _process_help_flags();
         throw;
     }
 
     _process_callbacks();
-    _process_help_flags();
 
     _process_requirements();
 }

tests/ConfigFileTest.cpp

@@ -2097,6 +2097,34 @@ TEST_CASE_METHOD(TApp, "IniSubcommandConfigurableInQuotesAliasWithEquals", "[con
     CHECK(app.got_subcommand(subcom));
 }
 
+TEST_CASE_METHOD(TApp, "IniSubcommandConfigurableHelp", "[config]") {
+
+    TempFile tmpini{"TestIniTmp.ini"};
+
+    app.set_config("--config", tmpini);
+
+    {
+        std::ofstream out{tmpini};
+        out << "[default]" << '\n';
+        out << "val=1" << '\n';
+        out << "[subcom]" << '\n';
+        out << "val=2" << '\n';
+    }
+
+    int one{0}, two{0};
+    app.add_option("--val", one);
+    app.add_option("--helptest", two);
+    auto *subcom = app.add_subcommand("subcom");
+    subcom->configurable();
+    subcom->add_option("--val", two);
+
+    args = {"--help"};
+    CHECK_THROWS_AS(run(), CLI::CallForHelp);
+
+    auto helpres = app.help();
+    CHECK_THAT(helpres, Contains("--helptest"));
+}
+
 TEST_CASE_METHOD(TApp, "IniSubcommandConfigurableInQuotesAliasWithComment", "[config]") {
 
     TempFile tmpini{"TestIniTmp.ini"};

tests/HelpersTest.cpp

@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ TEST_CASE("StringTools: binaryEscapeConversion2", "[helpers]") {
     CHECK(rstring == testString);
 }
 
-TEST_CASE("StringTools: binaryEscapseConversion_withX", "[helpers]") {
+TEST_CASE("StringTools: binaryEscapeConversion_withX", "[helpers]") {
     std::string testString("hippy\\x35mm\\XF3_helpX26fox19");
     testString.push_back(0);
     testString.push_back(0);
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ TEST_CASE("StringTools: binaryEscapseConversion_withX", "[helpers]") {
     CHECK(rstring == testString);
 }
 
-TEST_CASE("StringTools: binaryEscapseConversion_withBrackets", "[helpers]") {
+TEST_CASE("StringTools: binaryEscapeConversion_withBrackets", "[helpers]") {
 
     std::string vstr = R"raw('B"([\xb0\x0a\xb0/\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0\xb0])"')raw";
     std::string testString("[");