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// Copyright 2012 Jesse van den Kieboom. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package flags
import (
"errors"
"strings"
)
// ErrNotPointerToStruct indicates that a provided data container is not
// a pointer to a struct. Only pointers to structs are valid data containers
// for options.
var ErrNotPointerToStruct = errors.New("provided data is not a pointer to struct")
// Group represents an option group. Option groups can be used to logically
// group options together under a description. Groups are only used to provide
// more structure to options both for the user (as displayed in the help message)
// and for you, since groups can be nested.
type Group struct {
// A short description of the group. The
// short description is primarily used in the built-in generated help
// message
ShortDescription string
// A long description of the group. The long
// description is primarily used to present information on commands
// (Command embeds Group) in the built-in generated help and man pages.
LongDescription string
// The namespace of the group
Namespace string
// The parent of the group or nil if it has no parent
parent interface{}
// All the options in the group
options []*Option
// All the subgroups
groups []*Group
// Whether the group represents the built-in help group
isBuiltinHelp bool
data interface{}
}
// AddGroup adds a new group to the command with the given name and data. The
// data needs to be a pointer to a struct from which the fields indicate which
// options are in the group.
func (g *Group) AddGroup(shortDescription string, longDescription string, data interface{}) (*Group, error) {
group := newGroup(shortDescription, longDescription, data)
group.parent = g
if err := group.scan(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
g.groups = append(g.groups, group)
return group, nil
}
// Groups returns the list of groups embedded in this group.
func (g *Group) Groups() []*Group {
return g.groups
}
// Options returns the list of options in this group.
func (g *Group) Options() []*Option {
return g.options
}
// Find locates the subgroup with the given short description and returns it.
// If no such group can be found Find will return nil. Note that the description
// is matched case insensitively.
func (g *Group) Find(shortDescription string) *Group {
lshortDescription := strings.ToLower(shortDescription)
var ret *Group
g.eachGroup(func(gg *Group) {
if gg != g && strings.ToLower(gg.ShortDescription) == lshortDescription {
ret = gg
}
})
return ret
}