axocli

Common code for setting up a CLI App and handling errors/printing.

Example

See examples/axoapp.rs for a walkthrough/example.

Some various interesting example invocations to play with:

# clap help
cargo run --example axoapp -- --help

# success
cargo run --example axoapp -- 5
cargo run --example axoapp -- 5 --output-format=json

# normal error
cargo run --example axoapp -- 2
cargo run --example axoapp -- 2 --output-format=json

# panic (setting RUST_BACKTRACE=1 here is also interesting)
cargo run --example axoapp -- 0
cargo run --example axoapp -- 0 --output-format=json

# clap error
cargo run --example axoapp --

What Does It Do?

First off, it handles setting up:

• a tracing subscriber (currently the kind that cargo-dist uses, more work needed for oranda's use)
• a miette formatter (so we can have a shared Look And Feel)
• a panic handler (to get more control over output if the app panics)
• (not implemented but likely in the future) a tokio runtime

It also handles printing top-level errors, notably including a json_errors mode where the error gets formatted to json and printed to stdout, while still printing a human-friendly version to stderr. This is done for both an error returned from real_main and panics. So anything expecting machine-readable output from our apps will not freak out and get something unparseable when things error/panic. It will also set the process exit code on error (with std::process::exit, on the assumption that all cleanup was done when we returned/panicked out of real_main).

It also exposes the json diagnostic formatting machinery so you can Write them wherever or turn them into serde_json::Values. This is useful for returning a larger result with diagnostics nested inside of it (say, for reporting warnings).

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.