Somewhere in your main, you should be calling rootCmd.Execute(). Instead:
func main() {
// first, make sure there are at least 2 args. Then, process the
1st parameter
// Then
rootCmd.SetArgs(os.Args[2:])
rootCmd.Execute()
}
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM David Karr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> But where would that be done? I'm not certain of the exact role of the
> "rootCmd.Execute()" function, or the optional "Run" function in the Command
> object. Neither of those appear to be executed, when I just run "<app>
> <param> <subcommand"". I put a print statement in the "Run" function in the
> subcommand, and that gets printed, but nothing else.
>
> On Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 10:52:10 AM UTC-8 burak serdar wrote:
>>
>> You can do rootCmd.SetArgs(os.Args[2:]), and process the first
>> parameter yourself.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 11:43 AM David Karr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am not a new programmer, but I am pretty new to golang, having only
>> > written a couple of small applications, and that was several months ago.
>> > I'm trying to construct an application using Cobra, using some nonstandard
>> > conventions. Is it better to ask a question like this in an issue in the
>> > Cobra github site?
>> >
>> > The application I am trying to write will be used extremely often, and I
>> > want to minimize the required syntax.
>> >
>> > I want to set up a command line like the following:
>> >
>> > <applicationname> <parameter> <subcommand> <parameters>
>> >
>> > The parameter right after the application name will always be present. I
>> > don't want it to be a flag. After that parameter value will be a
>> > subcommand, followed by additional parameters, also not flags. There are
>> > some situations where I want to allow for flags, but that will be uncommon.
>> >
>> > It's not clear to me how to cleanly set up this organization. Is it simply
>> > not practical to do with Cobra? Should I just do ad hoc parameter
>> > processing?
>> >
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