1/* goption.h - Option parser
2 *
3 * Copyright (C) 2004 Anders Carlsson <andersca@gnome.org>
4 *
5 * SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
6 *
7 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
9 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
10 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 *
12 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
15 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
16 *
17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
18 * along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
19 */
20
21#ifndef __G_OPTION_H__
22#define __G_OPTION_H__
23
24#if !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
25#error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
26#endif
27
28#include <glib/gerror.h>
29#include <glib/gquark.h>
30
31G_BEGIN_DECLS
32
33/**
34 * GOptionContext:
35 *
36 * A `GOptionContext` struct defines which options
37 * are accepted by the commandline option parser. The struct has only private
38 * fields and should not be directly accessed.
39 */
40typedef struct _GOptionContext GOptionContext;
41
42/**
43 * GOptionGroup:
44 *
45 * A `GOptionGroup` struct defines the options in a single
46 * group. The struct has only private fields and should not be directly accessed.
47 *
48 * All options in a group share the same translation function. Libraries which
49 * need to parse commandline options are expected to provide a function for
50 * getting a `GOptionGroup` holding their options, which
51 * the application can then add to its #GOptionContext.
52 */
53typedef struct _GOptionGroup GOptionGroup;
54typedef struct _GOptionEntry GOptionEntry;
55
56/**
57 * GOptionFlags:
58 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_NONE: No flags. Since: 2.42.
59 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_HIDDEN: The option doesn't appear in `--help` output.
60 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN: The option appears in the main section of the
61 * `--help` output, even if it is defined in a group.
62 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_NONE kind, this
63 * flag indicates that the sense of the option is reversed. i.e. %FALSE will
64 * be stored into the argument rather than %TRUE.
65 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_NO_ARG: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK kind,
66 * this flag indicates that the callback does not take any argument
67 * (like a %G_OPTION_ARG_NONE option). Since 2.8
68 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_FILENAME: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK
69 * kind, this flag indicates that the argument should be passed to the
70 * callback in the GLib filename encoding rather than UTF-8. Since 2.8
71 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_OPTIONAL_ARG: For options of the %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK
72 * kind, this flag indicates that the argument supply is optional.
73 * If no argument is given then data of %GOptionParseFunc will be
74 * set to NULL. Since 2.8
75 * @G_OPTION_FLAG_NOALIAS: This flag turns off the automatic conflict
76 * resolution which prefixes long option names with `groupname-` if
77 * there is a conflict. This option should only be used in situations
78 * where aliasing is necessary to model some legacy commandline interface.
79 * It is not safe to use this option, unless all option groups are under
80 * your direct control. Since 2.8.
81 *
82 * Flags which modify individual options.
83 */
84typedef enum
85{
86 G_OPTION_FLAG_NONE = 0,
87 G_OPTION_FLAG_HIDDEN = 1 << 0,
88 G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN = 1 << 1,
89 G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE = 1 << 2,
90 G_OPTION_FLAG_NO_ARG = 1 << 3,
91 G_OPTION_FLAG_FILENAME = 1 << 4,
92 G_OPTION_FLAG_OPTIONAL_ARG = 1 << 5,
93 G_OPTION_FLAG_NOALIAS = 1 << 6
94} GOptionFlags;
95
96/**
97 * GOptionArg:
98 * @G_OPTION_ARG_NONE: No extra argument. This is useful for simple flags or booleans.
99 * @G_OPTION_ARG_STRING: The option takes a UTF-8 string argument.
100 * @G_OPTION_ARG_INT: The option takes an integer argument.
101 * @G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK: The option provides a callback (of type
102 * #GOptionArgFunc) to parse the extra argument.
103 * @G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME: The option takes a filename as argument, which will
104 be in the GLib filename encoding rather than UTF-8.
105 * @G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY: The option takes a string argument, multiple
106 * uses of the option are collected into an array of strings.
107 * @G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY: The option takes a filename as argument,
108 * multiple uses of the option are collected into an array of strings.
109 * @G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE: The option takes a double argument. The argument
110 * can be formatted either for the user's locale or for the "C" locale.
111 * Since 2.12
112 * @G_OPTION_ARG_INT64: The option takes a 64-bit integer. Like
113 * %G_OPTION_ARG_INT but for larger numbers. The number can be in
114 * decimal base, or in hexadecimal (when prefixed with `0x`, for
115 * example, `0xffffffff`). Since 2.12
116 *
117 * The #GOptionArg enum values determine which type of extra argument the
118 * options expect to find. If an option expects an extra argument, it can
119 * be specified in several ways; with a short option: `-x arg`, with a long
120 * option: `--name arg` or combined in a single argument: `--name=arg`.
121 */
122typedef enum
123{
124 G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,
125 G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
126 G_OPTION_ARG_INT,
127 G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK,
128 G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME,
129 G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY,
130 G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY,
131 G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE,
132 G_OPTION_ARG_INT64
133} GOptionArg;
134
135/**
136 * GOptionArgFunc:
137 * @option_name: The name of the option being parsed. This will be either a
138 * single dash followed by a single letter (for a short name) or two dashes
139 * followed by a long option name.
140 * @value: The value to be parsed.
141 * @data: User data added to the #GOptionGroup containing the option when it
142 * was created with g_option_group_new()
143 * @error: A return location for errors. The error code %G_OPTION_ERROR_FAILED
144 * is intended to be used for errors in #GOptionArgFunc callbacks.
145 *
146 * The type of function to be passed as callback for %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK
147 * options.
148 *
149 * Returns: %TRUE if the option was successfully parsed, %FALSE if an error
150 * occurred, in which case @error should be set with g_set_error()
151 */
152typedef gboolean (*GOptionArgFunc) (const gchar *option_name,
153 const gchar *value,
154 gpointer data,
155 GError **error);
156
157/**
158 * GOptionParseFunc:
159 * @context: The active #GOptionContext
160 * @group: The group to which the function belongs
161 * @data: User data added to the #GOptionGroup containing the option when it
162 * was created with g_option_group_new()
163 * @error: A return location for error details
164 *
165 * The type of function that can be called before and after parsing.
166 *
167 * Returns: %TRUE if the function completed successfully, %FALSE if an error
168 * occurred, in which case @error should be set with g_set_error()
169 */
170typedef gboolean (*GOptionParseFunc) (GOptionContext *context,
171 GOptionGroup *group,
172 gpointer data,
173 GError **error);
174
175/**
176 * GOptionErrorFunc:
177 * @context: The active #GOptionContext
178 * @group: The group to which the function belongs
179 * @data: User data added to the #GOptionGroup containing the option when it
180 * was created with g_option_group_new()
181 * @error: The #GError containing details about the parse error
182 *
183 * The type of function to be used as callback when a parse error occurs.
184 */
185typedef void (*GOptionErrorFunc) (GOptionContext *context,
186 GOptionGroup *group,
187 gpointer data,
188 GError **error);
189
190/**
191 * G_OPTION_ERROR:
192 *
193 * Error domain for option parsing. Errors in this domain will
194 * be from the #GOptionError enumeration. See #GError for information on
195 * error domains.
196 */
197#define G_OPTION_ERROR (g_option_error_quark ())
198
199/**
200 * GOptionError:
201 * @G_OPTION_ERROR_UNKNOWN_OPTION: An option was not known to the parser.
202 * This error will only be reported, if the parser hasn't been instructed
203 * to ignore unknown options, see g_option_context_set_ignore_unknown_options().
204 * @G_OPTION_ERROR_BAD_VALUE: A value couldn't be parsed.
205 * @G_OPTION_ERROR_FAILED: A #GOptionArgFunc callback failed.
206 *
207 * Error codes returned by option parsing.
208 */
209typedef enum
210{
211 G_OPTION_ERROR_UNKNOWN_OPTION,
212 G_OPTION_ERROR_BAD_VALUE,
213 G_OPTION_ERROR_FAILED
214} GOptionError;
215
216GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
217GQuark g_option_error_quark (void);
218
219/**
220 * GOptionEntry:
221 * @long_name: The long name of an option can be used to specify it
222 * in a commandline as `--long_name`. Every option must have a
223 * long name. To resolve conflicts if multiple option groups contain
224 * the same long name, it is also possible to specify the option as
225 * `--groupname-long_name`.
226 * @short_name: If an option has a short name, it can be specified
227 * `-short_name` in a commandline. @short_name must be a printable
228 * ASCII character different from '-', or zero if the option has no
229 * short name.
230 * @flags: Flags from #GOptionFlags
231 * @arg: The type of the option, as a #GOptionArg
232 * @arg_data: If the @arg type is %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK, then @arg_data
233 * must point to a #GOptionArgFunc callback function, which will be
234 * called to handle the extra argument. Otherwise, @arg_data is a
235 * pointer to a location to store the value, the required type of
236 * the location depends on the @arg type:
237 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_NONE: %gboolean
238 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING: %gchar*
239 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_INT: %gint
240 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME: %gchar*
241 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY: %gchar**
242 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY: %gchar**
243 * - %G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE: %gdouble
244 * If @arg type is %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING or %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME,
245 * the location will contain a newly allocated string if the option
246 * was given. That string needs to be freed by the callee using g_free().
247 * Likewise if @arg type is %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY or
248 * %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY, the data should be freed using g_strfreev().
249 * @description: the description for the option in `--help`
250 * output. The @description is translated using the @translate_func
251 * of the group, see g_option_group_set_translation_domain().
252 * @arg_description: The placeholder to use for the extra argument parsed
253 * by the option in `--help` output. The @arg_description is translated
254 * using the @translate_func of the group, see
255 * g_option_group_set_translation_domain().
256 *
257 * A GOptionEntry struct defines a single option. To have an effect, they
258 * must be added to a #GOptionGroup with g_option_context_add_main_entries()
259 * or g_option_group_add_entries().
260 */
261struct _GOptionEntry
262{
263 const gchar *long_name;
264 gchar short_name;
265 gint flags;
266
267 GOptionArg arg;
268 gpointer arg_data;
269
270 const gchar *description;
271 const gchar *arg_description;
272};
273
274/**
275 * G_OPTION_REMAINING:
276 *
277 * If a long option in the main group has this name, it is not treated as a
278 * regular option. Instead it collects all non-option arguments which would
279 * otherwise be left in `argv`. The option must be of type
280 * %G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK, %G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY
281 * or %G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY.
282 *
283 *
284 * Using %G_OPTION_REMAINING instead of simply scanning `argv`
285 * for leftover arguments has the advantage that GOption takes care of
286 * necessary encoding conversions for strings or filenames.
287 *
288 * Since: 2.6
289 */
290#define G_OPTION_REMAINING ""
291
292/**
293 * G_OPTION_ENTRY_NULL:
294 *
295 * A #GOptionEntry array requires a %NULL terminator, this macro can
296 * be used as terminator instead of an explicit `{ 0 }` but it cannot
297 * be assigned to a variable.
298 *
299 * |[
300 * GOptionEntry option[] = { G_OPTION_ENTRY_NULL };
301 * ]|
302 *
303 * Since: 2.70
304 */
305#define G_OPTION_ENTRY_NULL \
306 GLIB_AVAILABLE_MACRO_IN_2_70 \
307 { NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL }
308
309
310GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
311GOptionContext *g_option_context_new (const gchar *parameter_string);
312GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
313void g_option_context_set_summary (GOptionContext *context,
314 const gchar *summary);
315GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
316const gchar * g_option_context_get_summary (GOptionContext *context);
317GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
318void g_option_context_set_description (GOptionContext *context,
319 const gchar *description);
320GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
321const gchar * g_option_context_get_description (GOptionContext *context);
322GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
323void g_option_context_free (GOptionContext *context);
324GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
325void g_option_context_set_help_enabled (GOptionContext *context,
326 gboolean help_enabled);
327GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
328gboolean g_option_context_get_help_enabled (GOptionContext *context);
329GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
330void g_option_context_set_ignore_unknown_options (GOptionContext *context,
331 gboolean ignore_unknown);
332GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
333gboolean g_option_context_get_ignore_unknown_options (GOptionContext *context);
334
335GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
336void g_option_context_set_strict_posix (GOptionContext *context,
337 gboolean strict_posix);
338GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
339gboolean g_option_context_get_strict_posix (GOptionContext *context);
340
341GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
342void g_option_context_add_main_entries (GOptionContext *context,
343 const GOptionEntry *entries,
344 const gchar *translation_domain);
345GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
346gboolean g_option_context_parse (GOptionContext *context,
347 gint *argc,
348 gchar ***argv,
349 GError **error);
350GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_40
351gboolean g_option_context_parse_strv (GOptionContext *context,
352 gchar ***arguments,
353 GError **error);
354GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
355void g_option_context_set_translate_func (GOptionContext *context,
356 GTranslateFunc func,
357 gpointer data,
358 GDestroyNotify destroy_notify);
359GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
360void g_option_context_set_translation_domain (GOptionContext *context,
361 const gchar *domain);
362
363GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
364void g_option_context_add_group (GOptionContext *context,
365 GOptionGroup *group);
366GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
367void g_option_context_set_main_group (GOptionContext *context,
368 GOptionGroup *group);
369GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
370GOptionGroup *g_option_context_get_main_group (GOptionContext *context);
371GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
372gchar *g_option_context_get_help (GOptionContext *context,
373 gboolean main_help,
374 GOptionGroup *group);
375
376GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
377GOptionGroup *g_option_group_new (const gchar *name,
378 const gchar *description,
379 const gchar *help_description,
380 gpointer user_data,
381 GDestroyNotify destroy);
382GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
383void g_option_group_set_parse_hooks (GOptionGroup *group,
384 GOptionParseFunc pre_parse_func,
385 GOptionParseFunc post_parse_func);
386GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
387void g_option_group_set_error_hook (GOptionGroup *group,
388 GOptionErrorFunc error_func);
389GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_44
390void g_option_group_free (GOptionGroup *group);
391GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
392GOptionGroup *g_option_group_ref (GOptionGroup *group);
393GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_44
394void g_option_group_unref (GOptionGroup *group);
395GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
396void g_option_group_add_entries (GOptionGroup *group,
397 const GOptionEntry *entries);
398GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
399void g_option_group_set_translate_func (GOptionGroup *group,
400 GTranslateFunc func,
401 gpointer data,
402 GDestroyNotify destroy_notify);
403GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
404void g_option_group_set_translation_domain (GOptionGroup *group,
405 const gchar *domain);
406
407G_END_DECLS
408
409#endif /* __G_OPTION_H__ */
410