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Overview
| Comment: | Update to-do list |
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| User & Date: | andy 2019-04-26 17:51:32 |
Context
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2019-04-26
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| 17:52 | Beginnings of effort to rework validation to allow validators to see all results, not just the current value Leaf check-in: 36387739e6 user: andy tags: amg-argparse-validation | |
| 17:51 | Update to-do list Leaf check-in: 9064b9d02f user: andy tags: amg-argparse | |
| 17:51 | Continue writing documentation check-in: 2c12551d21 user: andy tags: amg-argparse | |
Changes
Changes to modules/argparse/TODO.md.
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- Remove `-boolean`
- Instead, act as if `-boolean` were always being passed to [argparse]
- Remove `-keep` as well
- Add an `-unset` switch to selectively change the behavior to unsetting a
variable or omitting a dict key when the switch is not present
- Remove `-switch` and `-parameter`
- Instead make `-` "shorthand" mandatory when declaring a switch
- Documentation
- Instead of having a big comment, use doctools
- Help text generation
- Parameter and switch descriptions given by per-element `-help` switch
- Need overall `-help` switch to provide narrative description
- May need special grouping elements to organize switches and parameters
- Text formatting and word wrapping
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- Add switch to put parameters before switches - Some Tcl commands work this way - Examples: [chan copy], [zlib gunzip], [clock], [registry broadcast] - Remove `-boolean` - Instead, act as if `-boolean` were always being passed to [argparse] - Remove `-keep` as well - Add an `-unset` switch to selectively change the behavior to unsetting a variable or omitting a dict key when the switch is not present - Remove `-switch` and `-parameter` - Instead make `-` "shorthand" mandatory when declaring a switch - Change from a result dict to a result array - Makes more complex validation expressions possible - If `-inline` is used, use [array get] to get the return value - Allow validation expressions to see the result array, not just the switch or parameter being validated - Use [upvar] rather than [array get] and [array set] to expose the result array into the validation expression - Also use [upvar] to link the arg variable to the current value - Validation expressions can then be (ab)used to modify the results - Necessary to do validation expressions as a separate final pass - Still do enumeration immediately so their final result values will be reflected in the validation - Allow enumerations to have validation expressions - No real reason why these two have to conflict - Documentation - Instead of having a big comment, use doctools - Help text generation - Parameter and switch descriptions given by per-element `-help` switch - Need overall `-help` switch to provide narrative description - May need special grouping elements to organize switches and parameters - Text formatting and word wrapping |