1/* goption.h - Option parser
2 *
3 * Copyright (C) 2004 Anders Carlsson <andersca@gnome.org>
4 *
5 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 *
10 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 *
15 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
16 * along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
17 */
18
19#ifndef __G_OPTION_H__
20#define __G_OPTION_H__
21
22#if !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
23#error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
24#endif
25
26#include <glib/gerror.h>
27#include <glib/gquark.h>
28
29G_BEGIN_DECLS
30
31/**
32 * GOptionContext:
33 *
34 * A `GOptionContext` struct defines which options
35 * are accepted by the commandline option parser. The struct has only private
36 * fields and should not be directly accessed.
37 */
38typedef struct _GOptionContext GOptionContext;
39
40/**
41 * GOptionGroup:
42 *
43 * A `GOptionGroup` struct defines the options in a single
44 * group. The struct has only private fields and should not be directly accessed.
45 *
46 * All options in a group share the same translation function. Libraries which
47 * need to parse commandline options are expected to provide a function for
48 * getting a `GOptionGroup` holding their options, which
49 * the application can then add to its #GOptionContext.
50 */
51typedef struct _GOptionGroup GOptionGroup;
52typedef struct _GOptionEntry GOptionEntry;
53
54/**
55 * GOptionFlags:
56 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_NONE: No flags. Since: 2.42.
57 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_HIDDEN: The option doesn't appear in `--help` output.
58 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN: The option appears in the main section of the
59 * `--help` output, even if it is defined in a group.
60 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_NONE kind, this
61 * flag indicates that the sense of the option is reversed.
62 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_NO_ARG: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK kind,
63 * this flag indicates that the callback does not take any argument
64 * (like a %G_OPTION_ARG_NONE option). Since 2.8
65 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_FILENAME: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK
66 * kind, this flag indicates that the argument should be passed to the
67 * callback in the GLib filename encoding rather than UTF-8. Since 2.8
68 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_OPTIONAL_ARG: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK
69 * kind, this flag indicates that the argument supply is optional.
70 * If no argument is given then data of %GOptionParseFunc will be
71 * set to NULL. Since 2.8
72 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_NOALIAS: This flag turns off the automatic conflict
73 * resolution which prefixes long option names with `groupname-` if
74 * there is a conflict. This option should only be used in situations
75 * where aliasing is necessary to model some legacy commandline interface.
76 * It is not safe to use this option, unless all option groups are under
77 * your direct control. Since 2.8.
78 *
79 * Flags which modify individual options.
80 */
81typedef enum
82{
83 G_OPTION_FLAG_NONE = 0,
84 G_OPTION_FLAG_HIDDEN = 1 << 0,
85 G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN = 1 << 1,
86 G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE = 1 << 2,
87 G_OPTION_FLAG_NO_ARG = 1 << 3,
88 G_OPTION_FLAG_FILENAME = 1 << 4,
89 G_OPTION_FLAG_OPTIONAL_ARG = 1 << 5,
90 G_OPTION_FLAG_NOALIAS = 1 << 6
91} GOptionFlags;
92
93/**
94 * GOptionArg:
95 * @G_OPTION_ARG_NONE: No extra argument. This is useful for simple flags.
96 * @G_OPTION_ARG_STRING: The option takes a string argument.
97 * @G_OPTION_ARG_INT: The option takes an integer argument.
98 * @G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK: The option provides a callback (of type
99 * #GOptionArgFunc) to parse the extra argument.
100 * @G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME: The option takes a filename as argument.
101 * @G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY: The option takes a string argument, multiple
102 * uses of the option are collected into an array of strings.
103 * @G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY: The option takes a filename as argument,
104 * multiple uses of the option are collected into an array of strings.
105 * @G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE: The option takes a double argument. The argument
106 * can be formatted either for the user's locale or for the "C" locale.
107 * Since 2.12
108 * @G_OPTION_ARG_INT64: The option takes a 64-bit integer. Like
109 * %G_OPTION_ARG_INT but for larger numbers. The number can be in
110 * decimal base, or in hexadecimal (when prefixed with `0x`, for
111 * example, `0xffffffff`). Since 2.12
112 *
113 * The #GOptionArg enum values determine which type of extra argument the
114 * options expect to find. If an option expects an extra argument, it can
115 * be specified in several ways; with a short option: `-x arg`, with a long
116 * option: `--name arg` or combined in a single argument: `--name=arg`.
117 */
118typedef enum
119{
120 G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,
121 G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
122 G_OPTION_ARG_INT,
123 G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK,
124 G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME,
125 G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY,
126 G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY,
127 G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE,
128 G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
129} GOptionArg;
130
131/**
132 * GOptionArgFunc:
133 * @option_name: The name of the option being parsed. This will be either a
134 * single dash followed by a single letter (for a short name) or two dashes
135 * followed by a long option name.
136 * @value: The value to be parsed.
137 * @data: User data added to the #GOptionGroup containing the option when it
138 * was created with g_option_group_new()
139 * @error: A return location for errors. The error code %G_OPTION_ERROR_FAILED
140 * is intended to be used for errors in #GOptionArgFunc callbacks.
141 *
142 * The type of function to be passed as callback for %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK
143 * options.
144 *
145 * Returns: %TRUE if the option was successfully parsed, %FALSE if an error
146 * occurred, in which case @error should be set with g_set_error()
147 */
148typedef gboolean (*GOptionArgFunc) (const gchar *option_name,
149 const gchar *value,
150 gpointer data,
151 GError **error);
152
153/**
154 * GOptionParseFunc:
155 * @context: The active #GOptionContext
156 * @group: The group to which the function belongs
157 * @data: User data added to the #GOptionGroup containing the option when it
158 * was created with g_option_group_new()
159 * @error: A return location for error details
160 *
161 * The type of function that can be called before and after parsing.
162 *
163 * Returns: %TRUE if the function completed successfully, %FALSE if an error
164 * occurred, in which case @error should be set with g_set_error()
165 */
166typedef gboolean (*GOptionParseFunc) (GOptionContext *context,
167 GOptionGroup *group,
168 gpointer data,
169 GError **error);
170
171/**
172 * GOptionErrorFunc:
173 * @context: The active #GOptionContext
174 * @group: The group to which the function belongs
175 * @data: User data added to the #GOptionGroup containing the option when it
176 * was created with g_option_group_new()
177 * @error: The #GError containing details about the parse error
178 *
179 * The type of function to be used as callback when a parse error occurs.
180 */
181typedef void (*GOptionErrorFunc) (GOptionContext *context,
182 GOptionGroup *group,
183 gpointer data,
184 GError **error);
185
186/**
187 * G_OPTION_ERROR:
188 *
189 * Error domain for option parsing. Errors in this domain will
190 * be from the #GOptionError enumeration. See #GError for information on
191 * error domains.
192 */
193#define G_OPTION_ERROR (g_option_error_quark ())
194
195/**
196 * GOptionError:
197 * @G_OPTION_ERROR_UNKNOWN_OPTION: An option was not known to the parser.
198 * This error will only be reported, if the parser hasn't been instructed
199 * to ignore unknown options, see g_option_context_set_ignore_unknown_options().
200 * @G_OPTION_ERROR_BAD_VALUE: A value couldn't be parsed.
201 * @G_OPTION_ERROR_FAILED: A #GOptionArgFunc callback failed.
202 *
203 * Error codes returned by option parsing.
204 */
205typedef enum
206{
207 G_OPTION_ERROR_UNKNOWN_OPTION,
208 G_OPTION_ERROR_BAD_VALUE,
209 G_OPTION_ERROR_FAILED
210} GOptionError;
211
212GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
213GQuark g_option_error_quark (void);
214
215/**
216 * GOptionEntry:
217 * @long_name: The long name of an option can be used to specify it
218 * in a commandline as `--long_name`. Every option must have a
219 * long name. To resolve conflicts if multiple option groups contain
220 * the same long name, it is also possible to specify the option as
221 * `--groupname-long_name`.
222 * @short_name: If an option has a short name, it can be specified
223 * `-short_name` in a commandline. @short_name must be a printable
224 * ASCII character different from '-', or zero if the option has no
225 * short name.
226 * @flags: Flags from #GOptionFlags
227 * @arg: The type of the option, as a #GOptionArg
228 * @arg_data: If the @arg type is %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK, then @arg_data
229 * must point to a #GOptionArgFunc callback function, which will be
230 * called to handle the extra argument. Otherwise, @arg_data is a
231 * pointer to a location to store the value, the required type of
232 * the location depends on the @arg type:
233 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_NONE: %gboolean
234 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING: %gchar*
235 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_INT: %gint
236 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME: %gchar*
237 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY: %gchar**
238 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY: %gchar**
239 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE: %gdouble
240 * If @arg type is %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING or %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME,
241 * the location will contain a newly allocated string if the option
242 * was given. That string needs to be freed by the callee using g_free().
243 * Likewise if @arg type is %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY or
244 * %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY, the data should be freed using g_strfreev().
245 * @description: the description for the option in `--help`
246 * output. The @description is translated using the @translate_func
247 * of the group, see g_option_group_set_translation_domain().
248 * @arg_description: The placeholder to use for the extra argument parsed
249 * by the option in `--help` output. The @arg_description is translated
250 * using the @translate_func of the group, see
251 * g_option_group_set_translation_domain().
252 *
253 * A GOptionEntry struct defines a single option. To have an effect, they
254 * must be added to a #GOptionGroup with g_option_context_add_main_entries()
255 * or g_option_group_add_entries().
256 */
257struct _GOptionEntry
258{
259 const gchar *long_name;
260 gchar short_name;
261 gint flags;
262
263 GOptionArg arg;
264 gpointer arg_data;
265
266 const gchar *description;
267 const gchar *arg_description;
268};
269
270/**
271 * G_OPTION_REMAINING:
272 *
273 * If a long option in the main group has this name, it is not treated as a
274 * regular option. Instead it collects all non-option arguments which would
275 * otherwise be left in `argv`. The option must be of type
276 * %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK, %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY
277 * or %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY.
278 *
279 *
280 * Using #G_OPTION_REMAINING instead of simply scanning `argv`
281 * for leftover arguments has the advantage that GOption takes care of
282 * necessary encoding conversions for strings or filenames.
283 *
284 * Since: 2.6
285 */
286#define G_OPTION_REMAINING ""
287
288GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
289GOptionContext *g_option_context_new (const gchar *parameter_string);
290GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
291void g_option_context_set_summary (GOptionContext *context,
292 const gchar *summary);
293GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
294const gchar * g_option_context_get_summary (GOptionContext *context);
295GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
296void g_option_context_set_description (GOptionContext *context,
297 const gchar *description);
298GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
299const gchar * g_option_context_get_description (GOptionContext *context);
300GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
301void g_option_context_free (GOptionContext *context);
302GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
303void g_option_context_set_help_enabled (GOptionContext *context,
304 gboolean help_enabled);
305GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
306gboolean g_option_context_get_help_enabled (GOptionContext *context);
307GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
308void g_option_context_set_ignore_unknown_options (GOptionContext *context,
309 gboolean ignore_unknown);
310GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
311gboolean g_option_context_get_ignore_unknown_options (GOptionContext *context);
312
313GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
314void g_option_context_set_strict_posix (GOptionContext *context,
315 gboolean strict_posix);
316GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
317gboolean g_option_context_get_strict_posix (GOptionContext *context);
318
319GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
320void g_option_context_add_main_entries (GOptionContext *context,
321 const GOptionEntry *entries,
322 const gchar *translation_domain);
323GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
324gboolean g_option_context_parse (GOptionContext *context,
325 gint *argc,
326 gchar ***argv,
327 GError **error);
328GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_40
329gboolean g_option_context_parse_strv (GOptionContext *context,
330 gchar ***arguments,
331 GError **error);
332GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
333void g_option_context_set_translate_func (GOptionContext *context,
334 GTranslateFunc func,
335 gpointer data,
336 GDestroyNotify destroy_notify);
337GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
338void g_option_context_set_translation_domain (GOptionContext *context,
339 const gchar *domain);
340
341GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
342void g_option_context_add_group (GOptionContext *context,
343 GOptionGroup *group);
344GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
345void g_option_context_set_main_group (GOptionContext *context,
346 GOptionGroup *group);
347GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
348GOptionGroup *g_option_context_get_main_group (GOptionContext *context);
349GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
350gchar *g_option_context_get_help (GOptionContext *context,
351 gboolean main_help,
352 GOptionGroup *group);
353
354GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
355GOptionGroup *g_option_group_new (const gchar *name,
356 const gchar *description,
357 const gchar *help_description,
358 gpointer user_data,
359 GDestroyNotify destroy);
360GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
361void g_option_group_set_parse_hooks (GOptionGroup *group,
362 GOptionParseFunc pre_parse_func,
363 GOptionParseFunc post_parse_func);
364GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
365void g_option_group_set_error_hook (GOptionGroup *group,
366 GOptionErrorFunc error_func);
367GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_44
368void g_option_group_free (GOptionGroup *group);
369GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
370GOptionGroup *g_option_group_ref (GOptionGroup *group);
371GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
372void g_option_group_unref (GOptionGroup *group);
373GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
374void g_option_group_add_entries (GOptionGroup *group,
375 const GOptionEntry *entries);
376GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
377void g_option_group_set_translate_func (GOptionGroup *group,
378 GTranslateFunc func,
379 gpointer data,
380 GDestroyNotify destroy_notify);
381GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
382void g_option_group_set_translation_domain (GOptionGroup *group,
383 const gchar *domain);
384
385G_END_DECLS
386
387#endif /* __G_OPTION_H__ */
388