Tool/QToolCommand.h

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     File: QToolCommand.h
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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
 
// IMPORTANT: This module is based on <x-man-page://3/getopt> and, as such, is only 
// safe to use from the main thread.
 
@interface QToolCommand : NSObject
 
// This class implements a single command line tool command.  You can use it directly 
// for a simple command or via the QComplexToolCommand subclass for commands with 
// subcommands.  This class is an abstract class that you can subclass to implement 
// command-specific behaviour.
 
// the following must be overridden
 
+ (NSString *)commandName;
    // Returns the name of the command for various purposes.
    // 
    // The default implementation throws.
    
+ (NSString *)commandUsage;
    // Returns the command's usage.
    //
    // The default implementation throws.
 
- (BOOL)runError:(NSError **)errorPtr;
    // Runs the command.  Return NO to indicate an error running the 
    // command (and set *errorPtr, if it's not NULL, to the error).
    // 
    // IMPORTANT: Do not do usage checking here.  Instead you should do that 
    // in -validateOptionsAndArguments:.
    // 
    // The default implementation throws.
 
// the following may be overridden
 
- (BOOL)validateOptionsAndArguments:(NSArray *)optionsAndArguments;
    // Validates the commands options and arguments.  Returning NO here 
    // will trigger a usage error.
    // 
    // The default implementation a) parses options as per the methods below, and b) 
    // saves the remaining arguments to .arguments.  It may be overridden to do special 
    // processing, for example, to check the argument count, handle inter-option 
    // dependencies, or process subcommands.
 
@property (nonatomic, copy,   readonly ) NSArray *  arguments;
 
// the following may be implementation to support per-command options
 
- (NSString *)commandOptions;
    // Return a getopt-compatible options string.
    // 
    // The default implementation return the empty string.
    // 
    // For each option you support you must allow the option to be set by 
    // overriding one of the following methods (or implementing the methods 
    // that they dynamic dispatch to).
 
- (void)setOption:(int)option;
    // Sets the specified option.
    //
    // The default implementation looks for method -setOption_X (where X is the option character) 
    // and calls that if it's available.  If that method isn't present, this method throws.
 
- (BOOL)setOption:(int)option argument:(NSString *)argument;
    // Sets the specified option.  Return NO to trigger a usage error.
    //
    // The default implementation looks for method -setOption_X_argument: 
    // (where X is the option character) and calls that.  If that method isn't 
    // present, this method throws.
 
// utilities
 
+ (NSArray *)optionsAndArgumentsFromArgC:(int)argc argV:(char **)argv;
    // Returns an options and arguments array from the classic UNIX argc/argv pair. 
    // This basically involves converting each element of the array to an NSString and 
    // building these strings into an array.
    //
    // WARNING: This will return nil if any item in the array isn't valid UTF-8.
    //
    // IMPORTANT: The first item of the array is ignored, as is standard for UNIX tools.
 
@end
 
@interface QComplexToolCommand : QToolCommand
 
// This class implements a command that is made up of subcommands.  Like QToolCommand it 
// is intended to be subclassed, with 
 
+ (NSArray *)subcommandClasses;
    // Returns the classes of the various subcommands implemented by this command.
    //
    // The ddefault implementation throws.
 
+ (NSString *)commandUsage;
    // This override returns the usage of each of the subcommands, separated by "\n".
 
@end