CLI Arguments

Package cli provides a lightweight library for building command-line applications using Go's standard library flag package. It extends flag functionality to support flags anywhere in command arguments. Key features: Quick example: The package intentionally maintains a minimal API surface to serve as a building block for CLI applications while leveraging the standard library's flag package. This approach enables developers to build maintainable command-line tools quickly while focusing on application logic rather than framework complexity.

Package cli provides a framework to build command line applications in Go with most of the burden of arguments parsing and validation placed on the framework instead of the user. To create a new application, initialize an app with cli.App. Specify a name and a brief description for the application: To attach code to execute when the app is launched, assign a function to the Action field: To assign a version to the application, use Version method and specify the flags that will be used to invoke the version command: Finally, in the main func, call Run passing in the arguments for parsing: To add one or more command line options (also known as flags), use one of the short-form StringOpt, StringsOpt, IntOpt, IntsOpt, Float64Opt, Floats64Opt, or BoolOpt methods on App (or Cmd if adding flags to a command or a subcommand). For example, to add a boolean flag to the cp command that specifies recursive mode, use the following: or: The first version returns a new pointer to a bool value which will be populated when the app is run, whereas the second version will populate a pointer to an existing variable you specify. The option name(s) is a space separated list of names (without the dashes). The one letter names can then be called with a single dash (short option, -R), the others with two dashes (long options, --recursive). You also specify the default value for the option if it is not supplied by the user. The last parameter is the description to be shown in help messages. There is also a second set of methods on App called String, Strings, Int, Ints, and Bool, which accept a long-form struct of the type: cli.StringOpt, cli.StringsOpt, cli.IntOpt, cli.IntsOpt, cli.Float64Opt, cli.Floats64Opt, cli.BoolOpt. The struct describes the option and allows the use of additional features not available in the short-form methods described above: Or: The first version returns a new pointer to a value which will be populated when the app is run, whereas the second version will populate a pointer to an existing variable you specify. Two features, EnvVar and SetByUser, can be defined in the long-form struct method. EnvVar is a space separated list of environment variables used to initialize the option if a value is not provided by the user. When help messages are shown, the value of any environment variables will be displayed. SetByUser is a pointer to a boolean variable that is set to true if the user specified the value on the command line. This can be useful to determine if the value of the option was explicitly set by the user or set via the default value. You can only access the values stored in the pointers in the Action func, which is invoked after argument parsing has been completed. This precludes using the value of one option as the default value of another. On the command line, the following syntaxes are supported when specifying options. Boolean options: String, int and float options: Slice options (StringsOpt, IntsOpt, Floats64Opt) where option is repeated to accumulate values in a slice: To add one or more command line arguments (not prefixed by dashes), use one of the short-form StringArg, StringsArg, IntArg, IntsArg, Float64Arg, Floats64Arg, or BoolArg methods on App (or Cmd if adding arguments to a command or subcommand). For example, to add two string arguments to our cp command, use the following calls: Or: The first version returns a new pointer to a value which will be populated when the app is run, whereas the second version will populate a pointer to an existing variable you specify. You then specify the argument as will be displayed in help messages. Argument names must be specified as all uppercase. The next parameter is the default value for the argument if it is not supplied. And the last is the description to be shown in help messages. There is also a second set of methods on App called String, Strings, Int, Ints, Float64, Floats64 and Bool, which accept a long-form struct of the type: cli.StringArg, cli.StringsArg, cli.IntArg, cli.IntsArg, cli.BoolArg. The struct describes the arguments and allows the use of additional features not available in the short-form methods described above: Or: The first version returns a new pointer to a value which will be populated when the app is run, whereas the second version will populate a pointer to an existing variable you specify. Two features, EnvVar and SetByUser, can be defined in the long-form struct method. EnvVar is a space separated list of environment variables used to initialize the argument if a value is not provided by the user. When help messages are shown, the value of any environment variables will be displayed. SetByUser is a pointer to a boolean variable that is set to true if the user specified the value on the command line. This can be useful to determine if the value of the argument was explicitly set by the user or set via the default value. You can only access the values stored in the pointers in the Action func, which is invoked after argument parsing has been completed. This precludes using the value of one argument as the default value of another. The -- operator marks the end of command line options. Everything that follows will be treated as an argument, even if starts with a dash. For example, the standard POSIX touch command, which takes a filename as an argument (and possibly other options that we'll ignore here), could be defined as: If we try to create a file named "-f" via our touch command: It will fail because the -f will be parsed as an option, not as an argument. The fix is to insert -- after all flags have been specified, so the remaining arguments are parsed as arguments instead of options as follows: This ensures the -f is parsed as an argument instead of a flag named f. This package supports nesting of commands and subcommands. Declare a top-level command by calling the Command func on the top-level App struct. For example, the following creates an application called docker that will have one command called run: The first argument is the name of the command the user will specify on the command line to invoke this command. The second argument is the description of the command shown in help messages. And, the last argument is a CmdInitializer, which is a function that receives a pointer to a Cmd struct representing the command. Within this function, define the options and arguments for the command by calling the same methods as you would with top-level App struct (BoolOpt, StringArg, ...). To execute code when the command is invoked, assign a function to the Action field of the Cmd struct. Within that function, you can safely refer to the options and arguments as command line parsing will be completed at the time the function is invoked: Optionally, to provide a more extensive description of the command, assign a string to LongDesc, which is displayed when a user invokes --help. A LongDesc can be provided for Cmds as well as the top-level App: Subcommands can be added by calling Command on the Cmd struct. They can by defined to any depth if needed: Command and subcommand aliases are also supported. To define one or more aliases, specify a space-separated list of strings to the first argument of Command: With the command structure defined above, users can invoke the app in a variety of ways: Commands can be hidden in the help messages. This can prove useful to deprecate a command so that it does not appear to new users in the help, but still exists to not break existing scripts. To hide a command, set the Hidden field to true: As a convenience, to assign an Action to a func with no arguments, use ActionCommand when defining the Command. For example, the following two statements are equivalent: Please note that options, arguments, specs, and long descriptions cannot be provided when using ActionCommand. This is intended for very simple command invocations that take no arguments. Finally, as a side-note, it may seem a bit weird that this package uses a function to initialize a command instead of simply returning a command struct. The motivation behind this API decision is scoping: as with the standard flag package, adding an option or an argument returns a pointer to a value which will be populated when the app is run. Since you'll want to store these pointers in variables, and to avoid having dozens of them in the same scope (the main func for example or as global variables), this API was specifically tailored to take a func parameter (called CmdInitializer), which accepts the command struct. With this design, the command's specific variables are limited in scope to this function. Interceptors, or hooks, can be defined to be executed before and after a command or when any of its subcommands are executed. For example, the following app defines multiple commands as well as a global flag which toggles verbosity: Instead of duplicating the check for the verbose flag and setting the debug level in every command (and its sub-commands), a Before interceptor can be set on the top-level App instead: Whenever a valid command is called by the user, all the Before interceptors defined on the app and the intermediate commands will be called, in order from the root to the leaf. Similarly, to execute a hook after a command has been called, e.g. to cleanup resources allocated in Before interceptors, simply set the After field of the App struct or any other Command. After interceptors will be called, in order, from the leaf up to the root (the opposite order of the Before interceptors). The following diagram shows when and in which order multiple Before and After interceptors are executed: To exit the application, use cli.Exit function, which accepts an exit code and exits the app with the provided code. It is important to use cli.Exit instead of os.Exit as the former ensures that all of the After interceptors are executed before exiting. An App or Command's invocation syntax can be customized using spec strings. This can be useful to indicate that an argument is optional or that two options are mutually exclusive. The spec string is one of the key differentiators between this package and other CLI packages as it allows the developer to express usage in a simple, familiar, yet concise grammar. To define option and argument usage for the top-level App, assign a spec string to the App's Spec field: Likewise, to define option and argument usage for a command or subcommand, assign a spec string to the Command's Spec field: The spec syntax is mostly based on the conventions used in POSIX command line applications (help messages and man pages). This syntax is described in full below. If a user invokes the app or command with the incorrect syntax, the app terminates with a help message showing the proper invocation. The remainder of this section describes the many features and capabilities of the spec string grammar. Options can use both short and long option names in spec strings. In the example below, the option is mandatory and must be provided. Any options referenced in a spec string MUST be explicitly declared, otherwise this package will panic. I.e. for each item in the spec string, a corresponding *Opt or *Arg is required: Arguments are specified with all-uppercased words. In the example below, both SRC and DST must be provided by the user (two arguments). Like options, any argument referenced in a spec string MUST be explicitly declared, otherwise this package will panic: With the exception of options, the order of the elements in a spec string is respected and enforced when command line arguments are parsed. In the example below, consecutive options (-f and -g) are parsed regardless of the order they are specified (both "-f=5 -g=6" and "-g=6 -f=5" are valid). Order between options and arguments is significant (-f and -g must appear before the SRC argument). The same holds true for arguments, where SRC must appear before DST: Optionality of options and arguments is specified in a spec string by enclosing the item in square brackets []. If the user does not provide an optional value, the app will use the default value specified when the argument was defined. In the example below, if -x is not provided, heapSize will default to 1024: Choice between two or more items is specified in a spec string by separating each choice with the | operator. Choices are mutually exclusive. In the examples below, only a single choice can be provided by the user otherwise the app will terminate displaying a help message on proper usage: Repetition of options and arguments is specified in a spec string with the ... postfix operator to mark an item as repeatable. Both options and arguments support repitition. In the example below, users may invoke the command with multiple -e options and multiple SRC arguments: Grouping of options and arguments is specified in a spec string with parenthesis. When combined with the choice | and repetition ... operators, complex syntaxes can be created. The parenthesis in the example below indicate a repeatable sequence of a -e option followed by an argument, and that is mutually exclusive to a choice between -x and -y options. Option groups, or option folding, are a shorthand method to declaring a choice between multiple options. I.e. any combination of the listed options in any order with at least one option selected. The following two statements are equivalent: Option groups are typically used in conjunction with optionality [] operators. I.e. any combination of the listed options in any order or none at all. The following two statements are equivalent: All of the options can be specified using a special syntax: [OPTIONS]. This is a special token in the spec string (not optionality and not an argument called OPTIONS). It is equivalent to an optional repeatable choice between all the available options. For example, if an app or a command declares 4 options a, b, c and d, then the following two statements are equivalent: Inline option values are specified in the spec string with the =<some-text> notation immediately following an option (long or short form) to provide users with an inline description or value. The actual inline values are ignored by the spec parser as they exist only to provide a contextual hint to the user. In the example below, "absolute-path" and "in seconds" are ignored by the parser: The -- operator can be used to automatically treat everything following it as arguments. In other words, placing a -- in the spec string automatically inserts a -- in the same position in the program call arguments. This lets you write programs such as the POSIX time utility for example: Below is the full EBNF grammar for the Specs language: By combining a few of these building blocks together (while respecting the grammar above), powerful and sophisticated validation constraints can be created in a simple and concise manner without having to define in code. This is one of the key differentiators between this package and other CLI packages. Validation of usage is handled entirely by the package through the spec string. Behind the scenes, this package parses the spec string and constructs a finite state machine used to parse the command line arguments. It also handles backtracking, which allows it to handle tricky cases, or what I like to call "the cp test": Without backtracking, this deceptively simple spec string cannot be parsed correctly. For instance, docopt can't handle this case, whereas this package does. By default an auto-generated spec string is created for the app and every command unless a spec string has been set by the user. This can simplify use of the package even further for simple syntaxes. The following logic is used to create an auto-generated spec string: 1) start with an empty spec string, 2) if at least one option was declared, append "[OPTIONS]" to the spec string, and 3) for each declared argument, append it, in the order of declaration, to the spec string. For example, given this command declaration: The auto-generated spec string, which should suffice for simple cases, would be: If additional constraints are required, the spec string must be set explicitly using the grammar documented above. By default, the following types are supported for options and arguments: bool, string, int, float64, strings (slice of strings), ints (slice of ints) and floats64 (slice of float64). You can, however, extend this package to handle other types, e.g. time.Duration, float64, or even your own struct types. To define your own custom type, you must implement the flag.Value interface for your custom type, and then declare the option or argument using VarOpt or VarArg respectively if using the short-form methods. If using the long-form struct, then use Var instead. The following example defines a custom type for a duration. It defines a duration argument that users will be able to invoke with strings in the form of "1h31m42s": To make a custom type to behave as a boolean option, i.e. doesn't take a value, it must implement the IsBoolFlag method that returns true: To make a custom type behave as a multi-valued option or argument, i.e. takes multiple values, it must implement the Clear method, which is called whenever the values list needs to be cleared, e.g. when the value was initially populated from an environment variable, and then explicitly set from the CLI: To hide the default value of a custom type, it must implement the IsDefault method that returns a boolean. The help message generator will use the return value to decide whether or not to display the default value to users:

Package goworker is a Resque-compatible, Go-based background worker. It allows you to push jobs into a queue using an expressive language like Ruby while harnessing the efficiency and concurrency of Go to minimize job latency and cost. goworker workers can run alongside Ruby Resque clients so that you can keep all but your most resource-intensive jobs in Ruby. To create a worker, write a function matching the signature and register it using Here is a simple worker that prints its arguments: To create workers that share a database pool or other resources, use a closure to share variables. goworker worker functions receive the queue they are serving and a slice of interfaces. To use them as parameters to other functions, use Go type assertions to convert them into usable types. For testing, it is helpful to use the redis-cli program to insert jobs onto the Redis queue: will insert 100 jobs for the MyClass worker onto the myqueue queue. It is equivalent to: After building your workers, you will have an executable that you can run which will automatically poll a Redis server and call your workers as jobs arrive. There are several flags which control the operation of the goworker client. -queues="comma,delimited,queues" — This is the only required flag. The recommended practice is to separate your Resque workers from your goworkers with different queues. Otherwise, Resque worker classes that have no goworker analog will cause the goworker process to fail the jobs. Because of this, there is no default queue, nor is there a way to select all queues (à la Resque's * queue). Queues are processed in the order they are specififed. If you have multiple queues you can assign them weights. A queue with a weight of 2 will be checked twice as often as a queue with a weight of 1: -queues='high=2,low=1'. -interval=5.0 — Specifies the wait period between polling if no job was in the queue the last time one was requested. -concurrency=25 — Specifies the number of concurrently executing workers. This number can be as low as 1 or rather comfortably as high as 100,000, and should be tuned to your workflow and the availability of outside resources. -connections=2 — Specifies the maximum number of Redis connections that goworker will consume between the poller and all workers. There is not much performance gain over two and a slight penalty when using only one. This is configurable in case you need to keep connection counts low for cloud Redis providers who limit plans on maxclients. -uri=redis://localhost:6379/ — Specifies the URI of the Redis database from which goworker polls for jobs. Accepts URIs of the format redis://user:pass@host:port/db or unix:///path/to/redis.sock. The flag may also be set by the environment variable $($REDIS_PROVIDER) or $REDIS_URL. E.g. set $REDIS_PROVIDER to REDISTOGO_URL on Heroku to let the Redis To Go add-on configure the Redis database. -namespace=resque: — Specifies the namespace from which goworker retrieves jobs and stores stats on workers. -exit-on-complete=false — Exits goworker when there are no jobs left in the queue. This is helpful in conjunction with the time command to benchmark different configurations. -use-number=false — Uses json.Number when decoding numbers in the job payloads. This will avoid issues that occur when goworker and the json package decode large numbers as floats, which then get encoded in scientific notation, losing pecision. This will default to true soon. You can also configure your own flags for use within your workers. Be sure to set them before calling goworker.Main(). It is okay to call flags.Parse() before calling goworker.Main() if you need to do additional processing on your flags. To stop goworker, send a QUIT, TERM, or INT signal to the process. This will immediately stop job polling. There can be up to $CONCURRENCY jobs currently running, which will continue to run until they are finished. Like Resque, goworker makes no guarantees about the safety of jobs in the event of process shutdown. Workers must be both idempotent and tolerant to loss of the job in the event of failure. If the process is killed with a KILL or by a system failure, there may be one job that is currently in the poller's buffer that will be lost without any representation in either the queue or the worker variable. If you are running Goworker on a system like Heroku, which sends a TERM to signal a process that it needs to stop, ten seconds later sends a KILL to force the process to stop, your jobs must finish within 10 seconds or they may be lost. Jobs will be recoverable from the Redis database under as a JSON object with keys queue, run_at, and payload, but the process is manual. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the job in Redis under the worker key has not finished, if the process is killed before goworker can flush the update to Redis.

Package engineapi provides libraries to implement client and server components compatible with the Docker engine. The client package in github.com/docker/engine-api/client implements all necessary requests to implement the official Docker engine cli. Create a new client, then use it to send and receive messages to the Docker engine API: Other programs, like Docker Machine, can set the default Docker engine environment for you. There is a shortcut to use its variables to configure the client: All request arguments are defined as typed structures in the types package. For instance, this is how to get all containers running in the host:

Package cmds helps building both standalone and client-server applications. The basic building blocks are requests, commands, emitters and responses. A command consists of a description of the parameters and a function. The function is passed the request as well as an emitter as arguments. It does operations on the inputs and sends the results to the user by emitting them. There are a number of emitters in this package and subpackages, but the user is free to create their own. A command is a struct containing the commands help text, a description of the arguments and options, the command's processing function and a type to let the caller know what type will be emitted. Optionally one of the functions PostRun and Encoder may be defined that consumes the function's emitted values and generates a visual representation for e.g. the terminal. Encoders work on a value-by-value basis, while PostRun operates on the value stream. An emitter has the Emit method, that takes the command's function's output as an argument and passes it to the user. The command's function does not know what kind of emitter it works with, so the same function may run locally or on a server, using an rpc interface. Emitters can also send errors using the SetError method. The user-facing emitter usually is the cli emitter. Values emitter here will be printed to the terminal using either the Encoders or the PostRun function. A response is a value that the user can read emitted values from. Responses have a method Next() that returns the next emitted value and an error value. If the last element has been received, the returned error value is io.EOF. If the application code has sent an error using SetError, the error ErrRcvdError is returned on next, indicating that the caller should call Error(). Depending on the reponse type, other errors may also occur. Pipes are pairs (emitter, response), such that a value emitted on the emitter can be received in the response value. Most builtin emitters are "pipe" emitters. The most prominent examples are the channel pipe and the http pipe. The channel pipe is backed by a channel. The only error value returned by the response is io.EOF, which happens when the channel is closed. The http pipe is backed by an http connection. The response can also return other errors, e.g. if there are errors on the network. To get a better idea of what's going on, take a look at the examples at https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-cmds/tree/master/examples.

Package ff provides a flags-first approach to runtime configuration. The central function is Parse, which populates a flag set from commandline arguments, environment variables, and/or config files. Parse takes either an implementation of the Flags interface, or (for compatibility reasons) a concrete flag.FlagSet. Option values can be used to control parsing behavior. FlagSet is provided as a standard implementation of the Flags interface, inspired by getopts(3). It supports single (-f) and long (--foo) flag names. Command is provided as a tool for building CLI applications, like docker or kubectl, in a simple and declarative style. It's intended to be easier to understand and maintain than common alternatives.

Package commando helps you create CLI applications with ease. It parses "getopt(3)" style command-line arguments, supports sub-command architecture, allows a short-name alias for flags and captures required and optional arguments.

Package cli provides a simple, fast and complete API for building command line applications in Go. In contrast to other libraries additional emphasis is put on the definition and validation of positional arguments and consistent usage outputs combining options from all command levels into one block.

Package goworker is a Resque-compatible, Go-based background worker. It allows you to push jobs into a queue using an expressive language like Ruby while harnessing the efficiency and concurrency of Go to minimize job latency and cost. goworker workers can run alongside Ruby Resque clients so that you can keep all but your most resource-intensive jobs in Ruby. To create a worker, write a function matching the signature and register it using Here is a simple worker that prints its arguments: To create workers that share a database pool or other resources, use a closure to share variables. goworker worker functions receive the queue they are serving and a slice of interfaces. To use them as parameters to other functions, use Go type assertions to convert them into usable types. For testing, it is helpful to use the redis-cli program to insert jobs onto the Redis queue: will insert 100 jobs for the MyClass worker onto the myqueue queue. It is equivalent to: After building your workers, you will have an executable that you can run which will automatically poll a Redis server and call your workers as jobs arrive. There are several flags which control the operation of the goworker client. -queues="comma,delimited,queues" — This is the only required flag. The recommended practice is to separate your Resque workers from your goworkers with different queues. Otherwise, Resque worker classes that have no goworker analog will cause the goworker process to fail the jobs. Because of this, there is no default queue, nor is there a way to select all queues (à la Resque's * queue). Queues are processed in the order they are specififed. If you have multiple queues you can assign them weights. A queue with a weight of 2 will be checked twice as often as a queue with a weight of 1: -queues='high=2,low=1'. -interval=5.0 — Specifies the wait period between polling if no job was in the queue the last time one was requested. -concurrency=25 — Specifies the number of concurrently executing workers. This number can be as low as 1 or rather comfortably as high as 100,000, and should be tuned to your workflow and the availability of outside resources. -connections=2 — Specifies the maximum number of Redis connections that goworker will consume between the poller and all workers. There is not much performance gain over two and a slight penalty when using only one. This is configurable in case you need to keep connection counts low for cloud Redis providers who limit plans on maxclients. -uri=redis://localhost:6379/ — Specifies the URI of the Redis database from which goworker polls for jobs. Accepts URIs of the format redis://user:pass@host:port/db or unix:///path/to/redis.sock. The flag may also be set by the environment variable $($REDIS_PROVIDER) or $REDIS_URL. E.g. set $REDIS_PROVIDER to REDISTOGO_URL on Heroku to let the Redis To Go add-on configure the Redis database. -namespace=resque: — Specifies the namespace from which goworker retrieves jobs and stores stats on workers. -exit-on-complete=false — Exits goworker when there are no jobs left in the queue. This is helpful in conjunction with the time command to benchmark different configurations. -use-number=false — Uses json.Number when decoding numbers in the job payloads. This will avoid issues that occur when goworker and the json package decode large numbers as floats, which then get encoded in scientific notation, losing pecision. This will default to true soon. You can also configure your own flags for use within your workers. Be sure to set them before calling goworker.Main(). It is okay to call flags.Parse() before calling goworker.Main() if you need to do additional processing on your flags. To stop goworker, send a QUIT, TERM, or INT signal to the process. This will immediately stop job polling. There can be up to $CONCURRENCY jobs currently running, which will continue to run until they are finished. Like Resque, goworker makes no guarantees about the safety of jobs in the event of process shutdown. Workers must be both idempotent and tolerant to loss of the job in the event of failure. If the process is killed with a KILL or by a system failure, there may be one job that is currently in the poller's buffer that will be lost without any representation in either the queue or the worker variable. If you are running Goworker on a system like Heroku, which sends a TERM to signal a process that it needs to stop, ten seconds later sends a KILL to force the process to stop, your jobs must finish within 10 seconds or they may be lost. Jobs will be recoverable from the Redis database under as a JSON object with keys queue, run_at, and payload, but the process is manual. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the job in Redis under the worker key has not finished, if the process is killed before goworker can flush the update to Redis.

Package engineapi provides libraries to implement client and server components compatible with the Docker engine. The client package in github.com/docker/engine-api/client implements all necessary requests to implement the official Docker engine cli. Create a new client, then use it to send and receive messages to the Docker engine API: Other programs, like Docker Machine, can set the default Docker engine environment for you. There is a shortcut to use its variables to configure the client: All request arguments are defined as typed structures in the types package. For instance, this is how to get all containers running in the host:

Package cli provides a framework to build command line applications in Go with most of the burden of arguments parsing and validation placed on the framework instead of the user. To create a new application, initialize an app with cli.App. Specify a name and a brief description for the application: To attach code to execute when the app is launched, assign a function to the Action field: To assign a version to the application, use Version method and specify the flags that will be used to invoke the version command: Finally, in the main func, call Run passing in the arguments for parsing: To add one or more command line options (also known as flags), use one of the short-form StringOpt, StringsOpt, IntOpt, IntsOpt, or BoolOpt methods on App (or Cmd if adding flags to a command or subcommand). For example, to add a boolean flag to the cp command that specifies recursive mode, use the following: The first argument is a space separated list of names for the option without the dashes. Generally, both short and long forms are specified, but this is not mandatory. Additional names (aliases) can be provide if desired, but these are not shown in the auto-generated help. The second argument is the default value for the option if it is not supplied by the user. And, the third argument is the description to be shown in help messages. There is also a second set of methods on App called String, Strings, Int, Ints, and Bool, which accept a long-form struct of the type: cli.StringOpt, cli.StringsOpt, cli.IntOpt, cli.IntsOpt, cli.BoolOpt. The struct describes the option and allows the use of additional features not available in the short-form methods described above: Two features, EnvVar and SetByUser, can be defined in the long-form struct method. EnvVar is a space separated list of environment variables used to initialize the option if a value is not provided by the user. When help messages are shown, the value of any environment variables will be displayed. SetByUser is a pointer to a boolean variable that is set to true if the user specified the value on the command line. This can be useful to determine if the value of the option was explicitly set by the user or set via the default value. The result of both short- and long-forms is a pointer to a value, which will be populated after the command line arguments are parsed. You can only access the values stored in the pointers in the Action func, which is invoked after argument parsing has been completed. This precludes using the value of one option as the default value of another. On the command line, the following syntaxes are supported when specifying options. Boolean options: String and int options: Slice options (StringsOpt, IntsOpt) where option is repeated to accumulate values in a slice: To add one or more command line arguments (not prefixed by dashes), use one of the short-form StringArg, StringsArg, IntArg, IntsArg, or BoolArg methods on App (or Cmd if adding arguments to a command or subcommand). For example, to add two string arguments to our cp command, use the following calls: The first argument is the name of the argument as displayed in help messages. Argument names must be specified as all uppercase. The second argument is the default value for the argument if it is not supplied. And the third, argument is the description to be shown in help messages. There is also a second set of methods on App called String, Strings, Int, Ints, and Bool, which accept a long-form struct of the type: cli.StringArg, cli.StringsArg, cli.IntArg, cli.IntsArg, cli.BoolArg. The struct describes the arguments and allows the use of additional features not available in the short-form methods described above: Two features, EnvVar and SetByUser, can be defined in the long-form struct method. EnvVar is a space separated list of environment variables used to initialize the argument if a value is not provided by the user. When help messages are shown, the value of any environment variables will be displayed. SetByUser is a pointer to a boolean variable that is set to true if the user specified the value on the command line. This can be useful to determine if the value of the argument was explicitly set by the user or set via the default value. The result of both short- and long-forms is a pointer to a value which will be populated after the command line arguments are parsed. You can only access the values stored in the pointers in the Action func, which is invoked after argument parsing has been completed. This precludes using the value of one argument as the default value of another. The -- operator marks the end of command line options. Everything that follows will be treated as an argument, even if starts with a dash. For example, the standard POSIX touch command, which takes a filename as an argument (and possibly other options that we'll ignore here), could be defined as: If we try to create a file named "-f" via our touch command: It will fail because the -f will be parsed as an option, not as an argument. The fix is to insert -- after all flags have been specified, so the remaining arguments are parsed as arguments instead of options as follows: This ensures the -f is parsed as an argument instead of a flag named f. This package supports nesting of commands and subcommands. Declare a top-level command by calling the Command func on the top-level App struct. For example, the following creates an application called docker that will have one command called run: The first argument is the name of the command the user will specify on the command line to invoke this command. The second argument is the description of the command shown in help messages. And, the last argument is a CmdInitializer, which is a function that receives a pointer to a Cmd struct representing the command. Within this function, define the options and arguments for the command by calling the same methods as you would with top-level App struct (BoolOpt, StringArg, ...). To execute code when the command is invoked, assign a function to the Action field of the Cmd struct. Within that function, you can safely refer to the options and arguments as command line parsing will be completed at the time the function is invoked: Optionally, to provide a more extensive description of the command, assign a string to LongDesc, which is displayed when a user invokes --help. A LongDesc can be provided for Cmds as well as the top-level App: Subcommands can be added by calling Command on the Cmd struct. They can by defined to any depth if needed: Command and subcommand aliases are also supported. To define one or more aliases, specify a space-separated list of strings to the first argument of Command: With the command structure defined above, users can invoke the app in a variety of ways: As a convenience, to assign an Action to a func with no arguments, use ActionCommand when defining the Command. For example, the following two statements are equivalent: Please note that options, arguments, specs, and long descriptions cannot be provided when using ActionCommand. This is intended for very simple command invocations that take no arguments. Finally, as a side-note, it may seem a bit weird that this package uses a function to initialize a command instead of simply returning a command struct. The motivation behind this API decision is scoping: as with the standard flag package, adding an option or an argument returns a pointer to a value which will be populated when the app is run. Since you'll want to store these pointers in variables, and to avoid having dozens of them in the same scope (the main func for example or as global variables), this API was specifically tailored to take a func parameter (called CmdInitializer), which accepts the command struct. With this design, the command's specific variables are limited in scope to this function. Interceptors, or hooks, can be defined to be executed before and after a command or when any of its subcommands are executed. For example, the following app defines multiple commands as well as a global flag which toggles verbosity: Instead of duplicating the check for the verbose flag and setting the debug level in every command (and its sub-commands), a Before interceptor can be set on the top-level App instead: Whenever a valid command is called by the user, all the Before interceptors defined on the app and the intermediate commands will be called, in order from the root to the leaf. Similarly, to execute a hook after a command has been called, e.g. to cleanup resources allocated in Before interceptors, simply set the After field of the App struct or any other Command. After interceptors will be called, in order, from the leaf up to the root (the opposite order of the Before interceptors). The following diagram shows when and in which order multiple Before and After interceptors are executed: To exit the application, use cli.Exit function, which accepts an exit code and exits the app with the provided code. It is important to use cli.Exit instead of os.Exit as the former ensures that all of the After interceptors are executed before exiting. An App or Command's invocation syntax can be customized using spec strings. This can be useful to indicate that an argument is optional or that two options are mutually exclusive. The spec string is one of the key differentiators between this package and other CLI packages as it allows the developer to express usage in a simple, familiar, yet concise grammar. To define option and argument usage for the top-level App, assign a spec string to the App's Spec field: Likewise, to define option and argument usage for a command or subcommand, assign a spec string to the Command's Spec field: The spec syntax is mostly based on the conventions used in POSIX command line applications (help messages and man pages). This syntax is described in full below. If a user invokes the app or command with the incorrect syntax, the app terminates with a help message showing the proper invocation. The remainder of this section describes the many features and capabilities of the spec string grammar. Options can use both short and long option names in spec strings. In the example below, the option is mandatory and must be provided. Any options referenced in a spec string MUST be explicitly declared, otherwise this package will panic. I.e. for each item in the spec string, a corresponding *Opt or *Arg is required: Arguments are specified with all-uppercased words. In the example below, both SRC and DST must be provided by the user (two arguments). Like options, any argument referenced in a spec string MUST be explicitly declared, otherwise this package will panic: With the exception of options, the order of the elements in a spec string is respected and enforced when command line arguments are parsed. In the example below, consecutive options (-f and -g) are parsed regardless of the order they are specified (both "-f=5 -g=6" and "-g=6 -f=5" are valid). Order between options and arguments is significant (-f and -g must appear before the SRC argument). The same holds true for arguments, where SRC must appear before DST: Optionality of options and arguments is specified in a spec string by enclosing the item in square brackets []. If the user does not provide an optional value, the app will use the default value specified when the argument was defined. In the example below, if -x is not provided, heapSize will default to 1024: Choice between two or more items is specified in a spec string by separating each choice with the | operator. Choices are mutually exclusive. In the examples below, only a single choice can be provided by the user otherwise the app will terminate displaying a help message on proper usage: Repetition of options and arguments is specified in a spec string with the ... postfix operator to mark an item as repeatable. Both options and arguments support repitition. In the example below, users may invoke the command with multiple -e options and multiple SRC arguments: Grouping of options and arguments is specified in a spec string with parenthesis. When combined with the choice | and repetition ... operators, complex syntaxes can be created. The parenthesis in the example below indicate a repeatable sequence of a -e option followed by an argument, and that is mutually exclusive to a choice between -x and -y options. Option groups, or option folding, are a shorthand method to declaring a choice between multiple options. I.e. any combination of the listed options in any order with at least one option selected. The following two statements are equivalent: Option groups are typically used in conjunction with optionality [] operators. I.e. any combination of the listed options in any order or none at all. The following two statements are equivalent: All of the options can be specified using a special syntax: [OPTIONS]. This is a special token in the spec string (not optionality and not an argument called OPTIONS). It is equivalent to an optional repeatable choice between all the available options. For example, if an app or a command declares 4 options a, b, c and d, then the following two statements are equivalent: Inline option values are specified in the spec string with the =<some-text> notation immediately following an option (long or short form) to provide users with an inline description or value. The actual inline values are ignored by the spec parser as they exist only to provide a contextual hint to the user. In the example below, "absolute-path" and "in seconds" are ignored by the parser: The -- operator can be used to automatically treat everything following it as arguments. In other words, placing a -- in the spec string automatically inserts a -- in the same position in the program call arguments. This lets you write programs such as the POSIX time utility for example: Below is the full EBNF grammar for the Specs language: By combining a few of these building blocks together (while respecting the grammar above), powerful and sophisticated validation constraints can be created in a simple and concise manner without having to define in code. This is one of the key differentiators between this package and other CLI packages. Validation of usage is handled entirely by the package through the spec string. Behind the scenes, this package parses the spec string and constructs a finite state machine used to parse the command line arguments. It also handles backtracking, which allows it to handle tricky cases, or what I like to call "the cp test": Without backtracking, this deceptively simple spec string cannot be parsed correctly. For instance, docopt can't handle this case, whereas this package does. By default an auto-generated spec string is created for the app and every command unless a spec string has been set by the user. This can simplify use of the package even further for simple syntaxes. The following logic is used to create an auto-generated spec string: 1) start with an empty spec string, 2) if at least one option was declared, append "[OPTIONS]" to the spec string, and 3) for each declared argument, append it, in the order of declaration, to the spec string. For example, given this command declaration: The auto-generated spec string, which should suffice for simple cases, would be: If additional constraints are required, the spec string must be set explicitly using the grammar documented above. By default, the following types are supported for options and arguments: bool, string, int, strings (slice of strings), and ints (slice of ints). You can, however, extend this package to handle other types, e.g. time.Duration, float64, or even your own struct types. To define your own custom type, you must implement the flag.Value interface for your custom type, and then declare the option or argument using VarOpt or VarArg respectively if using the short-form methods. If using the long-form struct, then use Var instead. The following example defines a custom type for a duration. It defines a duration argument that users will be able to invoke with strings in the form of "1h31m42s": To make a custom type to behave as a boolean option, i.e. doesn't take a value, it must implement the IsBoolFlag method that returns true: To make a custom type behave as a multi-valued option or argument, i.e. takes multiple values, it must implement the Clear method, which is called whenever the values list needs to be cleared, e.g. when the value was initially populated from an environment variable, and then explicitly set from the CLI: To hide the default value of a custom type, it must implement the IsDefault method that returns a boolean. The help message generator will use the return value to decide whether or not to display the default value to users:

Package cli routes command-line arguments to handlers. A Mux maps command names to Runner values. A *Command adds typed input declarations (flags, options, and positional arguments) to a Runner. A Program ties a root runner to the process environment and handles signal, I/O, and exit-code normalization. The package distinguishes three kinds of command-line input: Flags and options must appear before positional arguments; the parser stops at the first non-flag token or after "--". In POSIX terminology flags and options are both "options." This package separates them because the two forms have different signatures. Flags and options declared on a Mux are parsed before subcommand routing. Parsed values accumulate in [Call.GlobalFlags] and [Call.GlobalOptions] as routing descends through mounted sub-muxes: Passing a *Mux to Mux.Handle mounts it as a sub-mux. Each sub-mux is a self-contained Runner that can be built and tested independently: Setting [Command.CaptureRest] preserves unmatched trailing positional arguments in [Call.Rest]. This is useful for passthrough commands like ssh or exec: Setting [Mux.NegateFlags] or [Command.NegateFlags] enables --no- prefix negation for boolean flags. Negation is bidirectional: --no-verbose negates a flag named "verbose", and --cache negates a flag named "no-cache". Command-level defaults are not applied during parsing. Instead, Call.ApplyDefaults fills them in — called automatically by Command.RunCLI before the handler runs. Between parsing and ApplyDefaults, OptionSet.Has and FlagSet.Has report only values provided on the command line. Middleware running in this window can inspect what was typed and fill in values from other sources before defaults take effect. A Runner that wraps another Runner is the middleware pattern. Because Mux and Command both implement Runner, wrapping works at any level of the command tree:

Package argsieve provides argument parsing with known/unknown flag separation. argsieve is designed for CLI wrapper applications that need to intercept some flags while passing others through to an underlying command. Sift extracts known flags and passes unknown flags through - ideal for CLI wrappers that need to handle some flags while forwarding others to an underlying command. Parse is strict mode that errors on any unknown flag - use this when building standalone CLI tools. Both Sift and Parse accept an optional Config parameter. Pass nil to use defaults. Use [Config.RequirePositionalDelimiter] to require that all positional arguments appear after the "--" delimiter: Use [Config.StopAtFirstPositional] to stop flag parsing at the first positional argument (POSIX-style): Define flags using struct tags: Flags can be organized using embedded structs: Parse errors are wrapped with ErrParse for easy detection:

Package optargs provides a collection of CLI parsing utilities in order to aid in the development of command line applications. At the heart of the optargs package is a Go implementation of the GNU glibc versions the getopt(3), getopt_long(3), and getopt_long_only(3) functions. Leveraging GNU/POSIX conventions as the backend parser option means that the parser has a very large degree of flexibility without restricting application design choices. For example, POSIX/GNU allows for the following: It is always possible to implement a Flag handler which imposes opinionated rules atop a non-opinionated parser, but it is not possible to write a less opinionated Flag handler atop an opinionated parser. To that end, the [optarg] parsers do not make any judgements outside of strictly adhering to the POSIX/GNU conventions. Applications are free to implement their own argument handler to best-fit their application's needs. Optargs supports traditional Go style flags which act as convenience methods around GetOpt, GetOptLong, and GetOptLongOnly with the aim of fully supporting drop-in replacements commonly used CLI tooling, such as: While these packages are quite useful, they have some fundamental limitations and quirks that come from their design choices which aim to be overcome by optargs and in the case of spf13/pflag, those quirks ultimately percolate up to the user, such as spf13/pflag's boolean flags. Or putting arbitrary restrictions on applications, such as supporting long-only options, but not allowing short-only options. Or not supporting true non-option flags. I.e. many (all?) of the existing Go flag packages only allow an argument to a flag to be optional or required and are not capable of handling flags that never require an argument.

Package yargs provides a flexible, type-safe command-line argument parser with automatic help generation. The library is designed for building CLIs with subcommands and follows these principles: For a simple CLI without subcommands, use ParseFlags: For CLIs with subcommands, use RunSubcommands with ParseAndHandleHelp in handlers: Flags support both long and short forms: When using ParseWithCommand or ParseFlags with typed structs, the parser automatically consumes the next argument as the flag's value for non-boolean flags (unless the next argument starts with "-"). Boolean flags never consume the next argument The following types are supported for flag fields: Pointer types allow distinguishing between "flag not provided" (nil) and "flag provided with value" (non-nil). This is useful for optional settings where you need to preserve existing values if the flag is omitted. The Port type is a uint16 alias that supports optional range validation. Use the `port:"min-max"` struct tag to specify allowed port ranges: Use Registry to declare command schemas once and resolve commands without hardcoded lists. This is useful for checking positional requirements.

Package verbs implements a POSIX-compatible command line parser and help screen generator. Parsing command-line arguments with this package is a two-step process: build a CLI structure containing commands, options, and positional arguments, then call verbs.NewParser(cli).Parse(os.Args) and iterate over the returned parsed command, options, and arguments. The package supports two modes of operation:

Package clir provides a tiny, chi-style router for CLI arguments, with http-like Request + context support and optional typed contexts. Example:

`go-docmd` is a drop-in companion to `go doc` that emits Markdown instead of plaintext. It uses the standard library's `go/doc` and `go/doc/comment` packages to parse Go documentation comments and renders them as Markdown that works well on GitHub. Key capabilities: ## Usage Examples: Render the current package and print to stdout: go run ./go-docmd Export docs for a package tree into a docs folder: go run ./go-docmd -cmd -all -o ./agentmlx/docs ./agentmlx/... Update package READMEs in place (dogfooding): go run ./go-docmd -cmd -all -inplace ./af-proxy Install shell completion for bash (similar invocations exist for zsh, fish, and PowerShell): go run ./go-docmd completion bash > /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/go-docmd ## Supported Flags The CLI mirrors `go doc` and extends it with Markdown-specific behavior: ## Configuration go-docmd supports configuration files and environment variables, following 12‑factor precedence: CLI flags > environment > config file. Config files are discovered by searching the current directory and its parents for either `.docmd.toml` or `docmd.toml` (the hidden file wins if both exist). You can define settings either at the top level or under a `[docmd]` table. Keys mirror flag names, using snake_case where needed (for example `case_sensitive`). Environment variables use the `DOCMD_` prefix (for example `DOCMD_OUTPUT`, `DOCMD_WATCH`, `DOCMD_CASE_SENSITIVE`). ## Shell Completion Autocompletion is provided via Cobra's generators: Add the appropriate command to your shell startup files (see Cobra's docs for installation paths) and enjoy tab-completion for flags, subcommands, and Go package arguments. ## CLI Docs `go-docmd` can generate Markdown for each CLI command via `gen-docs`. This is handy when you want to publish CLI reference docs alongside the rest of your project documentation: Every command becomes its own Markdown file under the provided directory. ## Directory Mode When `-o` points to a directory (or has no extension) the tool walks the provided package pattern, generates documentation for every discovered package, and writes a `README.md` per package under that directory. The root README automatically includes a table of contents linking to each subpackage's README. Package loading is filesystem-based and focuses on the current module. Use `.` for the current package or `./...` for recursive subpackages. Standard library import paths are not resolved in this mode. ## In-Place Mode `-inplace` behaves like directory mode except output is written directly into the source tree. This is useful when you want each package directory to contain an always-up-to-date `README.md`, and it's how we keep this file in sync. ## Dogfooding the README This repository generates its own README via: CI runs the command above and fails if the README does not match the generated output, so documentation changes must flow through `go-docmd` itself.

DOC DRAFT Package cli provides a toolset for writing command line interfaces. This package started off as a fork of package github.com/codegangsta/cli with an aim to enhance shell completion but has diverged since then. Application definition structure is similar but not identical. The following sections briefly describe the main components; see the API index for information on further customization. A minimally viable application looks like this: Options can be used as follows: Any command line argument that cannot be identified and parsed as a named option will be available in Args(), but a formal declaration provides type-specific parsing and better help messages. Named options and positional arguments are declared and accessed through the same interface. Subcommands are created as follows: Like the root command Main, subcommands can have their own options and subcommands. The root command has an implicit "help" subcommand, showing usage instructions. For help on subcommands, it is invoked as "app help subcmd1 subcmd2 ...". Alternatively, every command has an implicit "--help" option that has the same effect. The implicit "help-commands" subcommand prints a recursive list of all declared subcommands. All subcommand and options are available for shell completion. Additionally, they can declare custom completion functions, returning a list of accepted values. The bash completion function is available at https://bitbucket.org/ulfurinn/cli/raw/default/bash_completion; replace $PROG with the name of your executable.

Inertia is the command line interface that helps you set up your remote for continuous deployment and allows you to manage your deployment through configuration options and various commands. It can be installed in several ways: Users of other platforms can install the Inertia CLI from the Releases page, found here: https://github.com/ubclaunchpad/inertia/releases/latest To help with usage, most relevant documentation can be seen by using the --help flag on any command: Documentation can also be triggered by simply entering a command without the prerequisite arguments or additional commands: Inertia has two "core" sets of commands - one that primarily handles local configuration, and one that allows you to control your remote VPS instances and their associated deployments. For local configuration, most commands will build off of the root "inertia ..." command. For example, a typical set of commands to set up a project might look like: The other set of commands are based on a remote VPS configuration, and the available commands can be seen by running: In the previous example, the next steps to set up a deployment might be: Some of these commands offer a --stream flag that allows you to view realtime log feedback from the daemon. More documentation on Inertia, how it works, and how to use it can be found in the project repository: https://github.com/ubclaunchpad/inertia/tree/master

Package cmdargs provides utilities for parsing, manipulating, and formatting command-line arguments. It offers a convenient Args type for working with argument slices, including methods for searching, modifying, and converting arguments. The package also includes robust parsing logic to split command-line strings into arguments, handling quoting, escaping, and whitespace similar to shell behavior. Additionally, it provides normalization and formatting functions to ensure arguments are handled consistently and safely for CLI usage.

This library will always parse a program's command line arguments for Inputs. However, inputs can additionally be parsed from environment variables or default values, in that order of precedence. For example, if an input can be parsed from all of those places (command line argument, environment variable, and default value), all will be parsed, but the value from the command line will take precedence over the value from the environment variable, and the value from the environment variable will take precedence over the default value. Command line arguments are classified as one of the following: Command line arguments are parsed as options until a positional argument, subcommand, or an argument of just "--" is encountered. In other words, any options that belong to a command must come before any of that command's positional arguments or subcommands. Positional arguments and subcommands are mutually exclusive since allowing both to exist at once would invite unnecessary ambiguity when parsing because there's no reliable way to tell if an argument would be a positional argument or the name of a subcommand. Furthermore, positional arguments that are required must appear before any optional ones since it would be impossible to tell when parsing whether a positional argument is filling the spot of a required one or an optional one. Therefore, the format of a command is structured like this: There are only two types of options in terms of syntax: Non-boolean options must have a value attached. In other words, while options themselves can either be required or optional, there is no such thing as an option that may or may not have a value. Options can have appear in one of two forms and can have a name for each form: long or short. Typically an option's long name is more than one character, but an option's short name can only be a single character. Long form options are provided by prefixing the option's name with two hyphens ("--"), and they must appear one at a time, separately. Short form options are provided by prefixing the options short name with a single hyphen ("-"), and they can be "stacked", meaning under certain conditions, they can appear one after the other in the same command line argument. The following are some common ways of how options can be provided:

Package calc provides advanced parsers for floats, ints, ..., based on Go constants calculator. When it comes to manually write numbers, using literals is not always the easiest way. How do you write the equivalent of 1 day but in seconds? `24*60*60` is probably easier than figuring out it is `86400`. Why, then asking your users to provide CLI arguments (or inputs in a textfield) as a number, when you could easily ask them to enter it as a basic formula? Go has figure that out, and has created a powerful constants systems that can be used to higly improve parsing basic types.

Inertia is the command line interface that helps you set up your remote for continuous deployment and allows you to manage your deployment through configuration options and various commands. This document contains basic usage instructions, but a new usage guide is also available here: https://inertia.ubclaunchpad.com/ Inertia can be installed in several ways: Users of other platforms can install the Inertia CLI from the Releases page, found here: https://github.com/ubclaunchpad/inertia/releases/latest To help with usage, most relevant documentation can be seen by using the --help flag on any command: Documentation can also be triggered by simply entering a command without the prerequisite arguments or additional commands: Inertia has two "core" sets of commands - one that primarily handles local configuration, and one that allows you to control your remote VPS instances and their associated deployments. For local configuration, most commands will build off of the root "inertia ..." command. For example, a typical set of commands to set up a project might look like: The other set of commands are based on a remote VPS configuration, and the available commands can be seen by running: In the previous example, the next steps to set up a deployment might be: Some of these commands offer a --stream flag that allows you to view realtime log feedback from the daemon. More documentation on Inertia, how it works, and how to use it can be found in the project repository: https://github.com/ubclaunchpad/inertia/tree/master

Package goworker is a Resque-compatible, Go-based background worker. It allows you to push jobs into a queue using an expressive language like Ruby while harnessing the efficiency and concurrency of Go to minimize job latency and cost. goworker workers can run alongside Ruby Resque clients so that you can keep all but your most resource-intensive jobs in Ruby. To create a worker, write a function matching the signature and register it using Here is a simple worker that prints its arguments: To create workers that share a database pool or other resources, use a closure to share variables. Clean up shared resources using the channel provided by the Signals function. goworker worker functions receive the queue they are serving and a slice of interfaces. To use them as parameters to other functions, use Go type assertions to convert them into usable types. For testing, it is helpful to use the redis-cli program to insert jobs onto the Redis queue: will insert 100 jobs for the MyClass worker onto the myqueue queue. It is equivalent to: After building your workers, you will have an executable that you can run which will automatically poll a Redis server and call your workers as jobs arrive. There are several flags which control the operation of the goworker client. -queues="comma,delimited,queues" — This is the only required flag. The recommended practice is to separate your Resque workers from your goworkers with different queues. Otherwise, Resque worker classes that have no goworker analog will cause the goworker process to fail the jobs. Because of this, there is no default queue, nor is there a way to select all queues (à la Resque's * queue). Queues are processed in the order they are specififed. If you have multiple queues you can assign them weights. A queue with a weight of 2 will be checked twice as often as a queue with a weight of 1: -queues='high=2,low=1'. -interval=5.0 — Specifies the wait period between polling if no job was in the queue the last time one was requested. -concurrency=25 — Specifies the number of concurrently executing workers. This number can be as low as 1 or rather comfortably as high as 100,000, and should be tuned to your workflow and the availability of outside resources. -connections=2 — Specifies the maximum number of Redis connections that goworker will consume between the poller and all workers. There is not much performance gain over two and a slight penalty when using only one. This is configurable in case you need to keep connection counts low for cloud Redis providers who limit plans on maxclients. -uri=redis://localhost:6379/ — Specifies the URI of the Redis database from which goworker polls for jobs. Accepts URIs of the format redis://user:pass@host:port/db or unix:///path/to/redis.sock. The flag may also be set by the environment variable $($REDIS_PROVIDER) or $REDIS_URL. E.g. set $REDIS_PROVIDER to REDISTOGO_URL on Heroku to let the Redis To Go add-on configure the Redis database. -namespace=resque: — Specifies the namespace from which goworker retrieves jobs and stores stats on workers. -exit-on-complete=false — Exits goworker when there are no jobs left in the queue. This is helpful in conjunction with the time command to benchmark different configurations. -use-number=false — Uses json.Number when decoding numbers in the job payloads. This will avoid issues that occur when goworker and the json package decode large numbers as floats, which then get encoded in scientific notation, losing pecision. This will default to true soon. -force-prune=false — Will prune all workers that are not inside of the heartbeat set, not just the expired ones. This option is not compatible with older versions of Resque (any port) as older versions may not have heartbeat so this would delete real working workers. You can also configure your own flags for use within your workers. Be sure to set them before calling goworker.Main(). It is okay to call flags.Parse() before calling goworker.Main() if you need to do additional processing on your flags. To stop goworker, send a QUIT, TERM, or INT signal to the process. This will immediately stop job polling. There can be up to $CONCURRENCY jobs currently running, which will continue to run until they are finished. Like Resque, goworker makes no guarantees about the safety of jobs in the event of process shutdown. Workers must be both idempotent and tolerant to loss of the job in the event of failure. If the process is killed with a KILL or by a system failure, there may be one job that is currently in the poller's buffer that will be lost without any representation in either the queue or the worker variable. If you are running Goworker on a system like Heroku, which sends a TERM to signal a process that it needs to stop, ten seconds later sends a KILL to force the process to stop, your jobs must finish within 10 seconds or they may be lost. Jobs will be recoverable from the Redis database under as a JSON object with keys queue, run_at, and payload, but the process is manual. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the job in Redis under the worker key has not finished, if the process is killed before goworker can flush the update to Redis.

A generated module for test the Gopkgpublisher functions This module has been generated via dagger init and serves as a reference to basic module structure as you get started with Dagger. Two functions have been pre-created. You can modify, delete, or add to them, as needed. They demonstrate usage of arguments and return types using simple echo and grep commands. The functions can be called from the dagger CLI or from one of the SDKs. The first line in this comment block is a short description line and the rest is a long description with more detail on the module's purpose or usage, if appropriate. All modules should have a short description.

A generated module for test the Gotest functions This module has been generated via dagger init and serves as a reference to basic module structure as you get started with Dagger. Two functions have been pre-created. You can modify, delete, or add to them, as needed. They demonstrate usage of arguments and return types using simple echo and grep commands. The functions can be called from the dagger CLI or from one of the SDKs. The first line in this comment block is a short description line and the rest is a long description with more detail on the module's purpose or usage, if appropriate. All modules should have a short description.

A generated module for test the Gotoolbox functions This module has been generated via dagger init and serves as a reference to basic module structure as you get started with Dagger. Two functions have been pre-created. You can modify, delete, or add to them, as needed. They demonstrate usage of arguments and return types using simple echo and grep commands. The functions can be called from the dagger CLI or from one of the SDKs. The first line in this comment block is a short description line and the rest is a long description with more detail on the module's purpose or usage, if appropriate. All modules should have a short description.

Package cli provides a lightweight library for building command-line applications using Go's standard library flag package. It extends flag functionality to support flags anywhere in command arguments. Key features: Quick example: The package intentionally maintains a minimal API surface to serve as a building block for CLI applications while leveraging the standard library's flag package. This approach enables developers to build maintainable command-line tools quickly while focusing on application logic rather than framework complexity.

A generated module for test the ModuleTemplateLight functions This module has been generated via dagger init and serves as a reference to basic module structure as you get started with Dagger. Two functions have been pre-created. You can modify, delete, or add to them, as needed. They demonstrate usage of arguments and return types using simple echo and grep commands. The functions can be called from the dagger CLI or from one of the SDKs. The first line in this comment block is a short description line and the rest is a long description with more detail on the module's purpose or usage, if appropriate. All modules should have a short description.

Package omnicli provides the Go SDK for building Omni commands. This package offers various utilities and helpers that make it easier to work with Omni's features from within Go. Currently, it focuses on argument parsing, but future versions will include additional functionality for working with other Omni features. The primary feature currently available is the ability to parse Omni CLI arguments from environment variables into Go structs. The package supports various types including strings, booleans, integers, and floats, both as single values and arrays. Example usage: By default, struct field names are converted from CamelCase to kebab-case for matching CLI arguments. For example: Custom names can be specified using the `omni` struct tag: Fields can be excluded from parsing using the `-` tag value: Optional values should be declared as pointers. These will be nil when not set: Array values are supported for all basic types: For the latest documentation and updates, visit: https://github.com/omnicli/sdk-go