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The compiler complains about C2131: expression did not evaluate to a
constant.
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Fix a bug relating to parsing negative floating point values with no
zero before decimal point in a context where an option could be
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Fixes#1135. Adds enable check to certain to_string functions as some
std::array operations were ambiguous.
The addition of the capability to convert tuples to strings created an
ambiguity in the case std::array, which acts like a tuple and a
container. So it worked with the container conversion before, but could
also work with the new tuple conversion. And we didn't have any tests to
catch this.
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The underlying type of uint8_t/int8_t is unsigned char and signed char,
but IOStreams was specified to treat them just like char.
so promoting the casting value to get the expected value.
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Allow trailing spaces on strings for conversions to floating point and
integers.
There was a potential confusing error that could occur if strings with
trailing spaces were converted to integer or floating point values. This
PR allows trailing spaces in the strings that would otherwise be
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max, min on positional was not respected, specifically max positionals
only filled up to min, and skipped over optional options.
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When I rewrote the Help formatter (see #866) I mixed up the order of the
Usage and Description strings. I flipped the order to make it UNIX style
again.
All tests pass.
Fixes issue #1086.
In the default_val enums of uint8_t would read in as a string as they
could be converted to a string. This worked ok for normal values, but
when a check was added for specific strings, it caused an error when the
default_val was added. This PR fixes the issue.
The builder for coverage was updated to CMake 3.31 (by github), this
triggered an error in the coverage tool script. This led to updating
that script, which led to uncovering some missing coverage, which led to
additional tests, which led to some issues around single element tuples
support from #1081, which led to a few other issues that came up in the
to_string operation and templates.
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This has been bounced around for a couple years now
#474 and a few others have expressed desire to work with non-standard
option names. We have been somewhat resistant to that but I think it can
be done now. This PR adds a modifier `allow_non_standard_option_names()`
It is purposely long, it is purposely off by default. But what it does
is allow option names with a single `-` to act like a short option name.
With this modifier enabled no single letter short option names are
allowed to start with the same letter as a non-standard names. For
example `-s` and `-single` would not be allowed.
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- Polish empty lines and disable description printing for apps and
subcommands with empty name, empty group and with no options and
subcommands.
- Add commentDefaults() method to trigger to comment default value
options in case default_also is true, so that the result set of an
option is not pollute with default option values.
- In case dafault_also is true mark required but not yet configured
options as "<REQUIRED>" and not yet configured default options as "" in
a commented line in the config file.
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Add modifier for subcommands to restrict subcommands falling through to
parent.
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_This is the new PR I've mentioned to work on in PR #858_
## A better Help Formatter
_See below for images of the new help page_
Finally, after a lot of planning, understanding CLI11's codebase,
testing and coding, the new default Help Formatter is done. There are a
lot of changes to make the help page more readable and closer to UNIX
standards, see Changelog below for details. One of the highlights is
automatic paragraph formatting with correct line wrapping for App and
options/flag descriptions as well as the footer.
A goal was to provide more flexibility and better readability for the
help page while providing full compatibility with Apps using CLI11 (no
breaking changes and no changes to Apps required). Also better support
for different terminal sizes. Users can now specify three new optional
attributes: `right_column_width_`, `description_paragraph_width_` and
`footer_paragraph_width_`. See code documentation for more details. The
different columns for options/flags now scale with the set
`column_width_` value: Single dash flags occupy 33% of the set
`column_width_`, double dash flags and options (like REQUIRED) 66%.
These new attributes allow for indirectly respecting terminal geometry,
footer paragraph formatting has also been added (#355). This PR also
implements the issues #353 and #856.
The new help page formatting can also be used as an input for man page
generation, since it's oriented on the man page style (#413).
[help2man](https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/) can be used to
generate man pages from help output (see comment down below for
example).
I thoroughly tested this code with all possible combinations of flags,
options, positionals, subcommands, validators, ...
So far everything works great.
I hope this PR looks good and meets all requirements. I'm looking
forward to the implementation of this PR into CLI11. If you have any
questions or suggestions feel free to comment.
### Fixed/implemented issues by this PR
- #353 Better options formatting
- #856 Space between options
- #355 Footer formatting
- #413 Man page generation can be achieved using help2man with the new
help formatting
- https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/issues/384#issuecomment-570066436
Better help formatting can be marked as complete
### What about the failing tests?
Of course the tests expect the old help text format. This is why 6 of
the tests are failing. Since it is a bit of work to migrate the tests to
the new help format, I first wanted to push out this PR and get
confirmation before I'll update all the tests.
So please let me know if this PR gets implemented, what changes should
be made and then I'll migrate the tests to the new help format, either
in this PR or I'll make a new one.
## Changelog:
#### There are _no breaking changes_. Every App using CLI11 will work
with this new formatter with no changes required.
- Added empty lines at beginning and end of help text
- Removed double new-line between option groups for consistency. Now all
sections have the same number of new-lines
- Switched usage and description order
- Only show "Usage"-string if no App name is present. This provides
better readability
- Made categories (Options, Positionals, ...) capital
- Changed `ConfigBase::to_config` to correctly process capital
"OPTIONS"-group (only affects descriptions of the config file, not a
breaking change)
- Added a paragraph formatter function `streamOutAsParagraph` to
StringTools.hpp
- Made "description" a paragraph block with correct, word respecting
line wrapping and indentation (using the new paragraph formatter
function)
- Made the footer a paragraph block with correct, word respecting line
wrapping and indentation
- Updated documentation for `column_width_` to make it more clear
- Added new member: `right_column_width_`, added getter and setter for
`right_column_width_`
- Added new member: `description_paragraph_width_`, added getter and
setter for `description_paragraph_width_`
- Added new member: `footer_paragraph_width_`, added getter and setter
for `footer_paragraph_width_ `
- Positionals description are now formatted as paragraph with correct,
word respecting line wrapping
- Options description are now formatted as paragraph with correct, word
respecting line wrapping
- Short and long options/flags/names are now correctly formatted to
always be at the right position (also for subcommand options/flags)
- Short and long options/flags/names column widths scale linearly with
the `column_width_` attribute to better adapt to different
`column_width_` sizes
- Merged PR #860
## What's planned for the future?
- I'm thinking of better formatting the options of flags (like REQUIRED,
TEXT, INT, ...) and make them also in a seperate column. This way they
would also always be at the same position. However I decided against it
for this PR, since I wanted them to be as close as possible to the
actual flag. With my implementation it is quite easy to add this change
in the future.
- Subcommands: I'm planning on better formatting the Subcommands. With
this PR only the short and long flags/options of subcommands are better
formatted (like it is with the main flags, see images down below).
- Maybe implement a different way to display expected data type options
(TEXT, INT, ...). For example: `--file-name=<TEXT>` for long flags only
and if `disable_flag_override_` is false.
- Maybe add something like this:
https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/issues/554
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From #1067, there is a bit of ambiguity in the handling of config file
with vector input and multiple consecutive parameters. For example
```toml
option1=[3,4,5]
option1=[4,5,6]
```
Currently this is handled as if it were
```toml
option1=[3,4,5,4,5,6]
```
But this could be confusing in the case where the input was referring to
a vector of vectors.
This PR adds a separator in the sequence to separate the vector so they
are two vectors of 3 elements each.
Will need to verify if this change has other side effects. It is a
pretty unusual situation.
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This is the next phase of the fuzzer. It runs a round trip and makes
sure that the config files generated by the app will load into the same
results, to test full round trip on the config files.
Issues fixed
- fix a bug in the string escape code caught by initial round trip tests
- resolve inconsistencies in handling of {} for empty vector indication
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This PR adds a mechanism to hide groups but have their options visible
as part of the parent.
This works for option group names starting with a '+'
for example
```
CLI::App app;
bool flag = false;
std::optional<bool> optional_flag = std::nullopt;
app.add_option("--tester");
auto *m1=app.add_option_group("+tester");
m1->add_option("--flag", flag, "description");
m1->add_option("--optional_flag", optional_flag, "description");
CLI11_PARSE(app,argc, argv);
```
will produce help as
```txt
Options:
-h,--help Print this help message and exit
--tester
--flag BOOLEAN description
--optional_flag BOOLEAN description
```
instead of
```
Options:
-h,--help Print this help message and exit
--tester
[Option Group: tester]
Options:
--flag BOOLEAN description
--optional_flag BOOLEAN description
```
Fixes issue #1034 and a few other past issues or questions
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Also works for overloads constrained with concepts or requirements.
Previously this wasn't working, which is a problem if you want to hook
some external serialization framework into CLI11 without painstakingly
going through all the types that said external framework supports.
This PR is related to https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/issues/908.
Hello. Thank you for this tool.
I found a few small typos in the RequiredError class.
This is an error message I received:
```
Requires at most 2 options be used and 3were given from [filename,--get-size,--get-size2]
```
This PR changes the error message to
```
Requires at most 2 options be used but 3 were given from [filename,--get-size,--get-size2]
```
Happy to make changes as needed!
## Source
```cpp
std::string filename;
bool get_size = false;
CLI::App app{"Program to read a file specified as command-line argument"};
app.add_option("filename", filename, "File to read")->required();
app.add_flag("--get-size", get_size, "Print the size of the file");
app.add_flag("--get-size2", get_size, "Print the size of the file2");
app.require_option(1, 2); // Enforce only one flag can be input
CLI11_PARSE(app, argc, argv);
```
## Further Idea
Also, another idea I had was to remove required options from this error
message. In this example, "filename" is required, so a better error
message would be
```
Requires at most 1 options be used but 2 were given from [--get-size,--get-size2]
```
I'm happy to look into this if you feel it would be valuable
Added include-what-you-use pragmas to:
* let IWYU point users to the main include file CLI/CLI.hpp
* tell IWYU that CLI/CLI.hpp is the main exporting header.
This should fix#816
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get_subcommand when used for parsing config files, was throwing and
catching as part of control flow and expected operation, this resulting
in a performance hit in select cases. A get_subcommand_no_throw was
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The extra leading `"CLI/"` part of include directives prevents the
inclusion of `CLI.hpp` from a relative directory without an extra `-I`
or `/I` compiler directive, and makes it harder to make CLI11 part of a
larger codebase.
This is a regression of #475.
Fix an issue with environmental variable parsing in option_groups, and
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Correct an anomaly when using config file processing with a default. In
this case the count always shows 1 even if the default file were not
actually used. This caused some issues in some applications and was a
change from previous versions.
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This PR is to further support for TOML. To allow and generate quoted
names in config files including those separated by the parent separator.
like
```toml
"sub"."sub2".value=1
'sub'.'sub.sub'.value=2
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Add escaping to quoted strings, differentiate between literal and
regular strings.
The goal is to make string processing in config files as close as
possible to toml standards. This means handing escape sequences
including unicode, and differentiating between literal strings and
regular strings in files and when splitting the command line. Also
allowing variable names in the files to be quoted.
This PR gets partway there. Removes some hacks from the previous PR to
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This adds a round trip test for config file generation to the fuzzer.
(the next step after this PR will be a fuzzer that verifies that the
round trip actually matches the results.
This change ended up requiring quite a few minor changes to fix the
ambiguities between the config file generation and config file reader.
1). There was a number of potential conflicts between positional names
and regular option names that could be triggered in config files, this
required a number of additional checks on the positional naming to
ensure no conflicts.
2). flag options with disable flag override can produce output results
that are not valid by themselves, resolving this required flag input to
be able to handle an array and output the original value set of results.
3). strings with non-printable characters could cause all sorts of chaos
in the config files. This was resolved by generating a binary string
conversion format and handling multiline comments and characters, and
handling escaped characters. Note; I think a better solution is to move
to fully supporting string formatting and escaping along with the binary
strings from TOML now that TOML 1.0 is finalized. That will not be this
PR though, maybe the next one.
4). Lot of ambiguities and edge cases in the string splitter, this was
reworked
5). handling of comments was not done well, especially comment characters in the
name of the option which is allowed.
6). non printable characters in the option naming. This would be weird
in practice but it also cause some big holes in the config file
generation, so the restricted character set for option naming was
expanded. (don't allow spaces or control characters).
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