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authorTomas Aschan <[email protected]>2025-08-29 21:59:56 +0200
committerGitHub <[email protected]>2025-08-29 21:59:56 +0200
commitfd649b20e66a30631ee35bba78164180d02730d4 (patch)
tree321b27604470eed0b00615ea41f0f32f9bf8104a /bool_func_test.go
parentd66f0ce2a7f887f0ff5f5af48649f3a01b3f0566 (diff)
parent1db553c27f5b9952dbb6484ed9999547b9e7dfb2 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into fix-errhelp
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+package pflag
+
+import (
+ "errors"
+ "flag"
+ "io"
+ "strings"
+ "testing"
+)
+
+func TestBoolFunc(t *testing.T) {
+ var count int
+ fn := func(_ string) error {
+ count++
+ return nil
+ }
+
+ fset := NewFlagSet("test", ContinueOnError)
+ fset.BoolFunc("func", "Callback function", fn)
+
+ err := fset.Parse([]string{"--func", "--func=1", "--func=false"})
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatal("expected no error; got", err)
+ }
+
+ if count != 3 {
+ t.Fatalf("expected 3 calls to the callback, got %d calls", count)
+ }
+}
+
+func TestBoolFuncP(t *testing.T) {
+ var count int
+ fn := func(_ string) error {
+ count++
+ return nil
+ }
+
+ fset := NewFlagSet("test", ContinueOnError)
+ fset.BoolFuncP("bfunc", "b", "Callback function", fn)
+
+ err := fset.Parse([]string{"--bfunc", "--bfunc=0", "--bfunc=false", "-b", "-b=0"})
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatal("expected no error; got", err)
+ }
+
+ if count != 5 {
+ t.Fatalf("expected 5 calls to the callback, got %d calls", count)
+ }
+}
+
+func TestBoolFuncCompat(t *testing.T) {
+ // compare behavior with the stdlib 'flag' package
+ type BoolFuncFlagSet interface {
+ BoolFunc(name string, usage string, fn func(string) error)
+ Parse([]string) error
+ }
+
+ unitTestErr := errors.New("unit test error")
+ runCase := func(f BoolFuncFlagSet, name string, args []string) (values []string, err error) {
+ fn := func(s string) error {
+ values = append(values, s)
+ if s == "err" {
+ return unitTestErr
+ }
+ return nil
+ }
+ f.BoolFunc(name, "Callback function", fn)
+
+ err = f.Parse(args)
+ return values, err
+ }
+
+ t.Run("regular parsing", func(t *testing.T) {
+ flagName := "bflag"
+ args := []string{"--bflag", "--bflag=false", "--bflag=1", "--bflag=bar", "--bflag="}
+
+ // It turns out that, even though the function is called "BoolFunc",
+ // the standard flag package does not try to parse the value assigned to
+ // that cli flag as a boolean. The string provided on the command line is
+ // passed as is to the callback.
+ // e.g: with "--bflag=not_a_bool" on the command line, the FlagSet does not
+ // generate an error stating "invalid boolean value", and `fn` will be called
+ // with "not_a_bool" as an argument.
+
+ stdFSet := flag.NewFlagSet("std test", flag.ContinueOnError)
+ stdValues, err := runCase(stdFSet, flagName, args)
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("std flag: expected no error, got %v", err)
+ }
+ expected := []string{"true", "false", "1", "bar", ""}
+ if !cmpLists(expected, stdValues) {
+ t.Fatalf("std flag: expected %v, got %v", expected, stdValues)
+ }
+
+ fset := NewFlagSet("pflag test", ContinueOnError)
+ pflagValues, err := runCase(fset, flagName, args)
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("pflag: expected no error, got %v", err)
+ }
+ if !cmpLists(stdValues, pflagValues) {
+ t.Fatalf("pflag: expected %v, got %v", stdValues, pflagValues)
+ }
+ })
+
+ t.Run("error triggered by callback", func(t *testing.T) {
+ flagName := "bflag"
+ args := []string{"--bflag", "--bflag=err", "--bflag=after"}
+
+ // test behavior of standard flag.Fset with an error triggered by the callback:
+ // (note: as can be seen in 'runCase()', if the callback sees "err" as a value
+ // for the bool flag, it will return an error)
+ stdFSet := flag.NewFlagSet("std test", flag.ContinueOnError)
+ stdFSet.SetOutput(io.Discard) // suppress output
+
+ // run test case with standard flag.Fset
+ stdValues, err := runCase(stdFSet, flagName, args)
+
+ // double check the standard behavior:
+ // - .Parse() should return an error, which contains the error message
+ if err == nil {
+ t.Fatalf("std flag: expected an error triggered by callback, got no error instead")
+ }
+ if !strings.HasSuffix(err.Error(), unitTestErr.Error()) {
+ t.Fatalf("std flag: expected unittest error, got unexpected error value: %T %v", err, err)
+ }
+ // - the function should have been called twice, with the first two values,
+ // the final "=after" should not be recorded
+ expected := []string{"true", "err"}
+ if !cmpLists(expected, stdValues) {
+ t.Fatalf("std flag: expected %v, got %v", expected, stdValues)
+ }
+
+ // now run the test case on a pflag FlagSet:
+ fset := NewFlagSet("pflag test", ContinueOnError)
+ pflagValues, err := runCase(fset, flagName, args)
+
+ // check that there is a similar error (note: pflag will _wrap_ the error, while the stdlib
+ // currently keeps the original message but creates a flat errors.Error)
+ if !errors.Is(err, unitTestErr) {
+ t.Fatalf("pflag: got unexpected error value: %T %v", err, err)
+ }
+ // the callback should be called the same number of times, with the same values:
+ if !cmpLists(stdValues, pflagValues) {
+ t.Fatalf("pflag: expected %v, got %v", stdValues, pflagValues)
+ }
+ })
+}
+
+func TestBoolFuncUsage(t *testing.T) {
+ t.Run("regular func flag", func(t *testing.T) {
+ // regular boolfunc flag:
+ // expect to see '--flag1' followed by the usageMessage, and no mention of a default value
+ fset := NewFlagSet("unittest", ContinueOnError)
+ fset.BoolFunc("flag1", "usage message", func(s string) error { return nil })
+ usage := fset.FlagUsagesWrapped(80)
+
+ usage = strings.TrimSpace(usage)
+ expected := "--flag1 usage message"
+ if usage != expected {
+ t.Fatalf("unexpected generated usage message\n expected: %s\n got: %s", expected, usage)
+ }
+ })
+
+ t.Run("func flag with placeholder name", func(t *testing.T) {
+ // func flag, with a placeholder name:
+ // if usageMesage contains a placeholder, expect '--flag2 {placeholder}'; still expect no mention of a default value
+ fset := NewFlagSet("unittest", ContinueOnError)
+ fset.BoolFunc("flag2", "usage message with `name` placeholder", func(s string) error { return nil })
+ usage := fset.FlagUsagesWrapped(80)
+
+ usage = strings.TrimSpace(usage)
+ expected := "--flag2 name usage message with name placeholder"
+ if usage != expected {
+ t.Fatalf("unexpected generated usage message\n expected: %s\n got: %s", expected, usage)
+ }
+ })
+}