Non-interactive query

Question

Non-interactive query

i-am-the-slime opened this issue 5 years ago · 4 comments

Is it possible to issue a request to the CLI without starting an interactive session?

Answer 1 · 2021-04-23T17:15:04.000Z

@i-am-the-slime this should work, but it's maybe not the best since I suspect we mix logging to stderr and stdout:

echo "Aff" | spago search

Answer 2 · 2021-04-23T17:15:41.000Z

Another improvement for this could be to have a flag to return the results in JSON

Answer 3 · 2021-04-23T18:20:59.000Z

@i-am-the-slime, as @f-f pointed out, you could just write your query to stdin and kill the process after receiving output. Could you please describe how your intended use case differs from that?

Answer 4 · 2021-04-26T09:29:02.000Z

Thanks for the suggestion @f-f and @klntsky ! I just realised that docs search builds the project first and doesn't work in the face of errors. I was hoping to use it during development as a fallback to provide results when typed holes only find unsafeCoerce and friends. But that state by definition does not build. I think this is too far from the intended use case of docs-search. I'll close this for now.