go-ps1

Description

This package provides a Cobra command that helps your users add custom PS1 prompts for your CLI. Users can customize their own PS1 prompt using syntax from the Go template package and formatting tokens.

Example

Initialize a PS1 object with a list of tokens that users can use to customize their prompt (for instance, the %C token below will display the user's login context) and add the prompt command to your Cobra CLI.

package main

import (
	"github.com/confluentinc/go-ps1"
	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

func main() {
	root := &cobra.Command{Use: "confluent"}
	
	ctx := context.Load()
	prompt := ps1.New(root.Name(), []ps1.Token{
		{
			Name: 'C',
			Desc: "Print the current login context.",
			Func: func() string { return ctx.Name() },
		},
	})

	root.AddCommand(prompt.NewCommand())
}

Use this command to print a custom string consisting of the CLI name and the user's login context.

$ confluent prompt -f '(confluent|%C)'
(confluent|context-1)

Then, append it to the $PS1 environment variable to continuously display it in the terminal prompt. (Note: ZSH users will have to run setopt prompt_subst prior to this step.)

$ export PS1='$(confluent prompt -f "(confluent|%C)") '$PS1
(confluent|context-1) $ confluent context use context-2
(confluent|context-2) $ ...

Additional Features

Colors and other styling attributes can be added to the format string. To avoid escaping special characters, consider defining this string in a separate variable.

$ format='({{fgcolor "blue" "confluent" | attr "bold"}}|{{fgcolor "red" %C}})'
$ export PS1='$(confluent prompt -f $format) '$PS1