Verb aliases

[ericnewton76]

Issue by kirillkovalenko
Tuesday Aug 20, 2013 at 17:19 GMT
Originally opened as gsscoder/commandline#90

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I suggest implementing verb aliases. For example: hg rename, hg move, hg mv is the same command.

[ericnewton76]

Comment by nemec
Wednesday Aug 21, 2013 at 05:37 GMT

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This can be trivially fixed in the short term by setting AllowMultiple to true on the VerbAttribute.

[ericnewton76]

Comment by gsscoder
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 17:40 GMT

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@kirillkovalenko, this is a nice idea! 👍 Thansk!

[ericnewton76]

Comment by gsscoder
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 17:41 GMT

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@nemec, an example?

[ericnewton76]

Comment by kirillkovalenko
Friday Jul 10, 2015 at 09:01 GMT

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@gsscoder are you really back? the issue is almost 2 y.o. now.

[ericnewton76]

Comment by gsscoder
Friday Jul 10, 2015 at 11:04 GMT

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@kirillkovalenko, check the project activity

this is the state of art of Command Line Parser Library 2.0.x-alpha: https://github.com/gsscoder/commandline/wiki/Latest-Version

[ericnewton76]

Comment by gsscoder
Friday Jul 10, 2015 at 11:08 GMT

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[ericnewton76]

Comment by kirillkovalenko
Friday Jul 10, 2015 at 13:05 GMT

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There could be even more sugar. Many tools allow using a shorter form of a verb or command (e.g. 'hg o' instead of 'hg out') provided that this shorter form is not ambiguous, and if it is ambiguous a nice hint is provided in the error message, e.g. 'hg: command 'a' is ambiguous: add addremove annotate archive'

[ericnewton76]

Comment by gsscoder
Friday Jul 10, 2015 at 15:36 GMT

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@kirillkovalenko, this alias is implicit like:

[Verb("add")] class AddOptions { }
[Verb("commit")] class CommitOptions { }

Will allow a, c or explicitly defined:

[Verb("add", Alias=new[] {"a"})] class AddOptions { }
[Verb("commit", Alias=new[] {"cm", "cmt"})] class CommitOptions { }

?

[ericnewton76]

Comment by rmunn
Thursday Sep 10, 2015 at 08:18 GMT

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👍 from me for this feature. I could use verb aliases in my current project, if they were available.

[ericnewton76]

Comment by nemec
Friday Sep 18, 2015 at 19:02 GMT

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@gsscoder what I meant was allowing the following:

[Verb("ci")]
[Verb("commit")] 
class CommitOptions { }

[ericnewton76]

Comment by gsscoder
Saturday Sep 26, 2015 at 06:43 GMT

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@nemec, it's another vaiable solution... :)

Anyway as announced in #213 this is an enhancement and will be the implementation is in any case post poned after 2.0.* gains stable status.

[Rohansi]

Was this issue forgotten? Still doesn't seem to be supported in any way.

[moh-hassan]

PR is welcome to support Verb aliases.