rxe

Easily customizable command runner made with Rust 🦀

📦 Usage

Install by the following command:

cargo install rxe

Or build from the source.

git clone https://github.com/loxygenK/rxe
cargo run

🏃‍♀️ Running scripts

Prepare rxe.yaml (or rxe.yml, .rxe.yml, .rxe.yaml) in the same current directory, and run:

rxe (your command) (and some arguments)

For more detailed explanation, see Examples or Creating configuration.

🔎 Specifying the configuration

By setting the environment variable RXE_CONFIG, you can use any name for the configuration.

RXE_CONFIG=rxe.config.yml rxe
# Now rxe will use rxe.config.yml as the configuration file

📝 Examples

Create the following configuration:

cmd:
  test:
    args:
      type:
        choice: [core, frontend, types]
      snapshot:
        flag:

    run:
      echo "Executing the test for {type} {snapshot|true=(with snapshot)}"

and you can run the command like this:

$ rxe test --type core --snapshot
#...

If the arugment was somehow wrong against the configuration, the error is shown.

$ rxe test --type backend  # There is no `backend` in the choice for `type` argument.
Could not parse the command argument: The value of the argument is invalid: The value was not appropriate: 'backend' is not available as the choice.
Please check the argument you passed to `rxe`, or configuration file.
Exiting abnormally due to the above error.

🛠 Creating configuration

TL;DR:

• There are four types for the argument, text, number, flag, choice.
• The value of the arguments is filled into the placeholder which is the text surrounded by {}.
  • It can be escaped using \. Please see the placeholder section for the behavior around the escaping

🔭 Overview

The configuration file is written in YAML. The configuration looks like this:

cmd:
  {Command name here}:
    args:
      {argument name here}:
        {argument type here}:
          {some additional argument configuration if neccesary}
      # other arguments can continue.

    run: |
      echo "commands. Can include the placeholder."
      
  # other commands can continue.

🔖 Arguments

    args:
      {name}:
        {type}:
          {some additional configuration}

Arguments for the command can be defined in the args. The argument has two information: name and type¹. Please see types for available types.

📝 Run script

    run: |
      echo "commands"

Script is defined in the run. Script can include placeholders for embedding the value of arguments.

Placeholder

run: |
  # The result assumes that the rxe is executed by following command line:
  #   rxe {command name} --arg "Some text" --flag

  # This is the placeholder
  echo "{arg}"     # => Some text
  
  # The placeholder can be omitted using "\"
  echo "\{arg}"    # => \{arg}
  
  # The placeholder is not omitted if there was more than two "\"
  echo "\\{arg}"   # => \Some text
  echo "\\\{arg}"  # => \\Some text
  
  # Some argument type like Flag type require more information, called Property.
  # Properties can be specified using "|".
  echo "{flag|true=enabled|false=disabled}"
                   # => enabled

Placeholder is the text that the surrounded by {}. It contains informations: name and properties. The placeholder is replaced by the value of argument (called filling).

The placeholder syntax looks like following:

{name of the argument|property name=config value|property name=config value|...}

For example, for the placeholder {flag|true=enabled|false=disabled}...

• The value of the argument "flag" is filled.

  The following properties will be used for filling:

  • true: enabled
  • false: disabled

🧩 Types

There is four types currently.

Text type

cmd:
  exec:
    args:
      name:
        text:
    run: |
      echo "Filled: >{name}<"

$ rxe exec --name "Some text"
Filled: >some text<

Any text. If no value is specified, rxe fails before executing the script specified in run.

Number type

cmd:
  exec:
    args:
      name:
        number:
    run: |
      echo "Filled: >{name}<"

$ rxe exec --name "12345"
Filled: >12345<

$ rxe exec --name "abcde"
Could not parse the command argument: The value of the argument is invalid: The value was not appropriate: 'abcde' could not be parsed as the number (esp. f64)
Please check the argument you passed to `rxe`, or configuration file.
Exiting abnormally due to the above error.

Any number. If non-numeric value is used (like abcde or 0x12345) or no value is specified, rxe fails.

Flag type

cmd:
  exec:
    args:
      name:
        flag:
    run: |
      echo "Filled 1: >{name|true=specified|false=not specified}<"
      echo "Filled 2: >{name|true=specified}<"

$ rxe exec --name
Filled 1: >specified<
Filled 2: >specified<

$ rxe exec
Filled 1: >not specified<
Filled 2: ><

$ rxe exec --name "bruh"
Could not parse the command argument: The value of the argument is invalid: The value of the argument should not be given.
Please check the argument you passed to `rxe`, or configuration file.
Exiting abnormally due to the above error.

The argument becomes flag. The arguments can be omitted, and takes no value. If any value was passed to the flag type argument, rxe fails.

Properties

• true and false can be specified in the same time, but cannot be omitted in the same time.

Choice type

cmd:
  exec:
    args:
      name:
        choice:
          - rust
          - ruby
          - python
    run: |
      echo "Filled: >{name}<"

$ rxe exec --name "rust"
Filled: rust

$ rxe exec --name "p"
Filled: python

$ rxe exec --name "ru"
Could not parse the command argument: The value of the argument is invalid: The value was not appropriate: 'ru' is too ambiguous. Type the choice longer
Please check the argument you passed to `rxe`, or configuration file.