parse-options: allow git commands to invent new option types

parse-options provides a variety of option behaviors, including
OPTION_CALLBACK, which should take care of just about any sane
behavior.  All supported behaviors obey the following constraint:

 A --foo option can only accept (and base its behavior on)
 one argument, which would be the following command-line
 argument in the "unsticked" form.

Alas, some existing git commands have options that do not obey that
constraint.  For example, update-index --cacheinfo takes three
arguments, and update-index --resolve takes all later parameters as
arguments.

Introduces an OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK backdoor to parse-options so
such option types can be supported without tempting inventors of other
commands through mention in the public API.  Commands can set the
callback field to a function accepting three arguments: the option
parsing context, the option itself, and a flag indicating whether the
the option was negated.  When the option is encountered, that function
is called to take over from get_value().  The return value should be
zero for success, -1 for usage errors.

Thanks to Stephen Boyd for API guidance.

Improved-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jonathan Nieder 2010-12-01 17:32:16 -06:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent b57c68a69e
commit b0b3a8b666
2 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ static int get_value(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *p,
return opterror(opt, "takes no value", flags);
switch (opt->type) {
case OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK:
return (*(parse_opt_ll_cb *)opt->callback)(p, opt, unset);
case OPTION_BIT:
if (unset)
*(int *)opt->value &= ~opt->defval;

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@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ enum parse_opt_type {
OPTION_STRING,
OPTION_INTEGER,
OPTION_CALLBACK,
OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK,
OPTION_FILENAME
};
@ -43,6 +44,10 @@ enum parse_opt_option_flags {
struct option;
typedef int parse_opt_cb(const struct option *, const char *arg, int unset);
struct parse_opt_ctx_t;
typedef int parse_opt_ll_cb(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
const struct option *opt, int unset);
/*
* `type`::
* holds the type of the option, you must have an OPTION_END last in your
@ -87,7 +92,8 @@ typedef int parse_opt_cb(const struct option *, const char *arg, int unset);
* useful for users of OPTION_NEGBIT.
*
* `callback`::
* pointer to the callback to use for OPTION_CALLBACK.
* pointer to the callback to use for OPTION_CALLBACK or
* OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK.
*
* `defval`::
* default value to fill (*->value) with for PARSE_OPT_OPTARG.