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Author SHA1 Message Date
Maciej Patro
87afaba6ba Improve thrown message in case of invalid argument.
Now message contains information which argument is the source of error.
It's easier to spot typo/understand which part of more complex command
is the source of problem.
2021-11-05 09:56:17 +01:00
Sean Robinson
ea1f7ef663 Allow removal of default arguments (i.e. --help and --version)
The help and version arguments are still included by default, but which
default arguments to include can be overridden at ArgumentParser creation.

argparse generally copies Python argparse behavior.  This includes a
default `--help`/`-h` argument to print a help message and exit.  Some
developers using argparse find the automatic exit to be undesirable.

The Python argparse has an opt-out parameter when constructing an
ArgumentParser.  Using `add_help=False` avoids adding a default `--help`
argument and allows the developer to implement a custom help.

This commit adds a similar opt-out to our C++ argparse, but keeps the
current behavior as the default.  The `--help`/`-h` and `--version`/`-v`
Arguments handle their own output and exit rather than specially treating
them in ArgumentParser::parse_args_internal.

Closes #119
Closes #138
Closes #139

Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
2021-10-27 09:02:33 -07:00
Sean Robinson
af6bbc1d47 Skip --version test until it can be made to work
Because program.parse_args( { "test", "--version" }) calls std::exit(0),
the REQUIRE line never runs and this test is less useful.  Because tests
execution stops here, the doctest status report is not output.  If
--version can be made to not exit during this test, then the test could
be restored.

Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
2021-10-27 07:33:22 -07:00
Pranav Srinivas Kumar
f3e65f69a9 Added --version as a special flag similar to --help
* ArgumentParser takes a second argument - the program version (std::string)
* Using --version or -v will print the program version and exit
2020-05-15 19:06:00 -05:00