//! Several ways of creating more fancier flags from primitive components //! In practice for "verbose" you'd use a builder pattern and define the variable only once, for //! trim on/off you need to define the variables but they can be in a local scope with {} use bpaf::*; #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)] enum Trim { On, Off, } fn main() { // program takes one or more -v or --verbose flags, more flags = higher verbosity. // parser handles number and produces a single flag. // // let's create it without using any single purpose magical functions // Let's staty by creating a simple parser that handles a single -v / --verbose // and fails otherwise; let verbose = short('v').long("verbose").req_flag(()); // Try to apply the inner parser as many times as it succeeds, return the number let verbose = verbose.count(); // And add a simple sanity checker. // By this time when this parser succeeds - it will contain verbosity in 0..3 range, inclusive. let verbose = verbose.guard(|&x| x <= 3, "it doesn't get any more verbose than 3"); // program takes --trimor --no-trimflag, but not both at once. If none is given - // fallback value is to disable trimming. Trim enum is set accordingly // this flag succeeds iff --no-trim is given and produces Trim::Off let trim_off = long("no-trim").req_flag(Trim::Off); // this flag handles two remaining cases: --trim is given (Trim::On) an fallback (Trim::Off) let trim_on = long("trim").flag(Trim::On, Trim::Off); // combination of previous two. // if trim_off succeeds - trim_on never runs, otherwise trim_on tries to handle the remaining // case before falling back to Trim:Off. // If both --trim and --no-trim are given trim_off succeeds, trim_off never runs and --trim // remains unused - parser fails let trim = construct!([trim_off, trim_on]); let parser = construct!(verbose, trim); let opt = parser.to_options().run(); println!("{:#?}", opt); }