Tyrrrz/CliFx

Calling commands from other rcommands

volkanpaksoy opened this issue · 3 comments

volkanpaksoy commented

Hello,

First of all, thanks for the great project. It makes creating a CLI a breeze.

Currently I'm trying to structure my CLI as a group of small commands that can be called in some order to carry out larger tasks. Is there a recommended way of calling other commands ?

Thanks.

Tyrrrz commented

Hi.

Not really. You could initialize commands inside of your other commands and just run command.ExecuteAsync(...). However, commands are system boundary entry points, so calling them from within the system is a bit weird.

I would recommend extracting shared logic out of the commands and then just referencing it directly.

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adambajguz commented

Hi, you may use the younger brother of CliFx - Typin and inject ICliCommandExecutor to your commands. However, I agree with @Tyrrrz that "commands are system boundary entry points, so calling them from within the system is a bit weird". Typin has ICliCommandExecutor to support multiple CLI modes, e.g. direct and interactive, so calling commands from a command should be avoided. Maybe what you need is some sort of a batch CLI mode?

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volkanpaksoy commented

Thank you both for your responses.

I think I had better implement the small commands individually and create a batch script to orchestrate calling those commands.

Also interactive mode is a greta idea too. I'll give Typin a go. In some cases it makes sense to stay in the CLI and call one command after another.