Add new FlagSet.Get{Int,String,...} accessor functions

If I declared a bool flag named "hello" I can now call

b, err := f.GetBool("hello")

And b will hold the value of the flag

We can see this is already done in
https://github.com/codegangsta/cli/blob/bcec9b08c7e5564f7512ad7e7b03778fe1923116/context.go
If people use the codegangsta/cli

Other projects have done it themselves using pflags (what inspired this
patch)
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/cd817aebd848facda29e0befbbd6e31bf22402e6/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/helpers.go#L176

Lets just do it ourselves...

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/string.go b/string.go
index 362fbf8..f89ea8b 100644
--- a/string.go
+++ b/string.go
@@ -20,6 +20,19 @@ func (s *stringValue) Type() string {
 
 func (s *stringValue) String() string { return fmt.Sprintf("%s", *s) }
 
+func stringConv(sval string) (interface{}, error) {
+	return sval, nil
+}
+
+// GetString return the string value of a flag with the given name
+func (f *FlagSet) GetString(name string) (string, error) {
+	val, err := f.getFlagType(name, "string", stringConv)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return val.(string), nil
+}
+
 // StringVar defines a string flag with specified name, default value, and usage string.
 // The argument p points to a string variable in which to store the value of the flag.
 func (f *FlagSet) StringVar(p *string, name string, value string, usage string) {