/** dropt_example.c
*
* A simple dropt example.
*
* Written by James D. Lin and assigned to the public domain.
*
* The latest version of this file can be downloaded from:
*
*/
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include "dropt.h"
typedef enum { unknown, heads, tails } face_type;
/* Function prototype for our custom function to parse a string to a face_type. */
static dropt_option_handler_decl handle_face;
int
main(int argc, char** argv)
{
/* C89 requires that array initializers be constant, so they need to
* have static storage duration if their addresses are to be used as
* initialization values. This restriction is relaxed in C99 (most
* compilers ignore it anyway).
*/
static dropt_bool showHelp = 0;
static dropt_bool showVersion = 0;
static int i = 0;
static face_type face = unknown;
int exitCode = EXIT_SUCCESS;
/* Each option is defined by a row in a table, containing properties
* such as the option's short name (e.g. -h), its long name (e.g.
* --help), its help text, its handler callback, and its callback data
* (for typical handlers, this data is usually the address of a variable
* for the handler to modify).
*
* See the dropt_option documentation in dropt.h for a complete list
* of option properties.
*/
dropt_option options[] = {
{ 'h', "help", "Shows help.", NULL, dropt_handle_bool, &showHelp, dropt_attr_halt },
{ '?', NULL, NULL, NULL, dropt_handle_bool, &showHelp, dropt_attr_halt | dropt_attr_hidden },
{ '\0', "version", "Shows version information.", NULL, dropt_handle_bool, &showVersion, dropt_attr_halt },
{ 'i', "int", "Sample integer option.", "value", dropt_handle_int, &i },
{ 'f', "face", "Sample custom option.", "{heads, tails}", handle_face, &face },
{ 0 } /* Required sentinel value. */
};
dropt_context* droptContext = dropt_new_context(options);
if (droptContext == NULL)
{
/* We failed to create the dropt context, possibly due to memory
* allocation failure.
*
* This also can happen due to logical errors (e.g. if the options
* array is malformed). Logical errors will trigger DROPT_MISUSE()
* and will terminate the program in debug builds.
*/
exitCode = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else if (argc == 0)
{
/* This check is useless but is here for pedantic completeness.
* Hosted C environments are not required to supply command-line
* arguments, although obviously any environment that doesn't
* supply arguments wouldn't have any use for dropt.
*/
}
else
{
/* Parse the arguments from argv.
*
* argv[1] is always safe to access since argv[argc] is guaranteed
* to be NULL and since we've established that argc > 0.
*/
char** rest = dropt_parse(droptContext, -1, &argv[1]);
if (dropt_get_error(droptContext) != dropt_error_none)
{
fprintf(stderr, "dropt_example: %s\n", dropt_get_error_message(droptContext));
exitCode = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else if (showHelp)
{
printf("Usage: dropt_example [options] [--] [operands]\n\n"
"Options:\n");
dropt_print_help(stdout, droptContext, NULL);
}
else if (showVersion)
{
printf("dropt_example 1.0\n");
}
else
{
printf("int value: %d\n", i);
printf("face value: %d\n", face);
printf("Operands: ");
while (*rest != NULL)
{
printf("%s ", *rest);
rest++;
}
printf("\n");
}
}
dropt_free_context(droptContext);
return exitCode;
}
/** handle_face
*
* An example of a custom option handler. Usually the stock callbacks
* (e.g. dropt_handle_bool, dropt_handle_int, dropt_handle_string,
* etc.) should be sufficient for most purposes.
*/
static dropt_error
handle_face(dropt_context* context, const char* optionArgument, void* handlerData)
{
dropt_error err = dropt_error_none;
face_type* face = handlerData;
assert(face != NULL);
/* Option handlers should handle 'optionArgument' being NULL (if the
* option's argument is optional and wasn't supplied) or being the
* empty string (if a user explicitly passed an empty string (e.g.
* --face="").
*/
if (optionArgument == NULL || optionArgument[0] == '\0')
{
err = dropt_error_insufficient_arguments;
}
else if (strcmp(optionArgument, "heads") == 0)
{
*face = heads;
}
else if (strcmp(optionArgument, "tails") == 0)
{
*face = tails;
}
else
{
/* Reject the value as being inappropriate for this handler. */
err = dropt_error_mismatch;
}
return err;
}