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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 /errors.go
parentd66f0ce2a7f887f0ff5f5af48649f3a01b3f0566 (diff)
parent1db553c27f5b9952dbb6484ed9999547b9e7dfb2 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into fix-errhelp
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+package pflag
+
+import "fmt"
+
+// notExistErrorMessageType specifies which flavor of "flag does not exist"
+// is printed by NotExistError. This allows the related errors to be grouped
+// under a single NotExistError struct without making a breaking change to
+// the error message text.
+type notExistErrorMessageType int
+
+const (
+ flagNotExistMessage notExistErrorMessageType = iota
+ flagNotDefinedMessage
+ flagNoSuchFlagMessage
+ flagUnknownFlagMessage
+ flagUnknownShorthandFlagMessage
+)
+
+// NotExistError is the error returned when trying to access a flag that
+// does not exist in the FlagSet.
+type NotExistError struct {
+ name string
+ specifiedShorthands string
+ messageType notExistErrorMessageType
+}
+
+// Error implements error.
+func (e *NotExistError) Error() string {
+ switch e.messageType {
+ case flagNotExistMessage:
+ return fmt.Sprintf("flag %q does not exist", e.name)
+
+ case flagNotDefinedMessage:
+ return fmt.Sprintf("flag accessed but not defined: %s", e.name)
+
+ case flagNoSuchFlagMessage:
+ return fmt.Sprintf("no such flag -%v", e.name)
+
+ case flagUnknownFlagMessage:
+ return fmt.Sprintf("unknown flag: --%s", e.name)
+
+ case flagUnknownShorthandFlagMessage:
+ c := rune(e.name[0])
+ return fmt.Sprintf("unknown shorthand flag: %q in -%s", c, e.specifiedShorthands)
+ }
+
+ panic(fmt.Errorf("unknown flagNotExistErrorMessageType: %v", e.messageType))
+}
+
+// GetSpecifiedName returns the name of the flag (without dashes) as it
+// appeared in the parsed arguments.
+func (e *NotExistError) GetSpecifiedName() string {
+ return e.name
+}
+
+// GetSpecifiedShortnames returns the group of shorthand arguments
+// (without dashes) that the flag appeared within. If the flag was not in a
+// shorthand group, this will return an empty string.
+func (e *NotExistError) GetSpecifiedShortnames() string {
+ return e.specifiedShorthands
+}
+
+// ValueRequiredError is the error returned when a flag needs an argument but
+// no argument was provided.
+type ValueRequiredError struct {
+ flag *Flag
+ specifiedName string
+ specifiedShorthands string
+}
+
+// Error implements error.
+func (e *ValueRequiredError) Error() string {
+ if len(e.specifiedShorthands) > 0 {
+ c := rune(e.specifiedName[0])
+ return fmt.Sprintf("flag needs an argument: %q in -%s", c, e.specifiedShorthands)
+ }
+
+ return fmt.Sprintf("flag needs an argument: --%s", e.specifiedName)
+}
+
+// GetFlag returns the flag for which the error occurred.
+func (e *ValueRequiredError) GetFlag() *Flag {
+ return e.flag
+}
+
+// GetSpecifiedName returns the name of the flag (without dashes) as it
+// appeared in the parsed arguments.
+func (e *ValueRequiredError) GetSpecifiedName() string {
+ return e.specifiedName
+}
+
+// GetSpecifiedShortnames returns the group of shorthand arguments
+// (without dashes) that the flag appeared within. If the flag was not in a
+// shorthand group, this will return an empty string.
+func (e *ValueRequiredError) GetSpecifiedShortnames() string {
+ return e.specifiedShorthands
+}
+
+// InvalidValueError is the error returned when an invalid value is used
+// for a flag.
+type InvalidValueError struct {
+ flag *Flag
+ value string
+ cause error
+}
+
+// Error implements error.
+func (e *InvalidValueError) Error() string {
+ flag := e.flag
+ var flagName string
+ if flag.Shorthand != "" && flag.ShorthandDeprecated == "" {
+ flagName = fmt.Sprintf("-%s, --%s", flag.Shorthand, flag.Name)
+ } else {
+ flagName = fmt.Sprintf("--%s", flag.Name)
+ }
+ return fmt.Sprintf("invalid argument %q for %q flag: %v", e.value, flagName, e.cause)
+}
+
+// Unwrap implements errors.Unwrap.
+func (e *InvalidValueError) Unwrap() error {
+ return e.cause
+}
+
+// GetFlag returns the flag for which the error occurred.
+func (e *InvalidValueError) GetFlag() *Flag {
+ return e.flag
+}
+
+// GetValue returns the invalid value that was provided.
+func (e *InvalidValueError) GetValue() string {
+ return e.value
+}
+
+// InvalidSyntaxError is the error returned when a bad flag name is passed on
+// the command line.
+type InvalidSyntaxError struct {
+ specifiedFlag string
+}
+
+// Error implements error.
+func (e *InvalidSyntaxError) Error() string {
+ return fmt.Sprintf("bad flag syntax: %s", e.specifiedFlag)
+}
+
+// GetSpecifiedName returns the exact flag (with dashes) as it
+// appeared in the parsed arguments.
+func (e *InvalidSyntaxError) GetSpecifiedFlag() string {
+ return e.specifiedFlag
+}