sparser: A Kotlin repository from salat-23

Sparser - advanced string to object parser library written in Kotlin

Included features:

Command and arguments description using annotations
Parse string commands into correlating command objects
Generate calls from command objects
Convert any value using custom converters
Default converters work with numbers, strings, booleans and enums

Add Sparser to your project:

Add this to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.salat-23</groupId>
    <artifactId>sparser</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>

or if you are using gradle:

implementation 'io.github.salat-23:sparser:1.0.1' // groovy dsl

implementation("io.github.salat-23:sparser:1.0.1") // kotlin dsl

Simple usage example:

Ideally, command must be a simple POJO with all arguments constructor available.

We have a command object which we must annotate with @Command, provide name and description and also provide list of unique identifiers. There is no limit on identifiers amount, the only requirement is that they should be unique.

Each field will act as an argument and must be annotated with @Argument. This annotation also takes name, description and identifiers. Arguments must have unique identifiers in their command scope.

By default, each argument is optional, and must also be annotated with @Default, which will describe default string provided value to it. If argument is required, true should be passed to required parameter.

There is also implicit parameter which states that the argument might be set right after command name without using identifiers. In our case example would be: health deferred = health -schedule deferred.

@Command(
    name = "Get health command",
    description = "Fetches recent metrics on system and checks if the system is under-performing",
    identifiers = ["health", "h"]
)
class GetHealthCommand(
    @Argument(
        name = "Include GPU",
        description = "Decides if GPU metric should be included or not",
        identifiers = ["gpu", "g"],
    )
    @Default("false")
    val includeGpu: Boolean,
    @Argument(
        name = "Timeout",
        description = "Aborts the command if timeout exceeds this value",
        identifiers = ["timeout", "t"]
    )
    @Default("1000")
    val timeout: Long,
    @Argument(
        name = "Schedule type",
        description = "Which schedule type should be used",
        identifiers = ["schedule", "s"],
        required = true,
        implicit = true
    )
    val scheduleType: ScheduleType
)

If you are using enum as an argument, you must provide @ArgumentSerialized annotations to each enum entry and give them unique identifiers.

enum class ScheduleType {
    @ArgumentSerialized("immediate", "i")
    IMMEDIATE,

    @ArgumentSerialized("deferred", "d")
    DEFERRED,

    @ArgumentSerialized("conditional", "c")
    CONDITIONAL
}

And finally you can create command context and use your parser. Note, that you also can provide layout keymaps to your converters. Explanation what are those can be found here [TODO]

val commandContext = CommandContext()
val keymaps = listOf(RussianKeymap())
val parser = SparserBuilder()
    .registerContext(commandContext)
    .registerConverters(
        listOf(
            BooleanConverter(keymaps),
            EnumConverter(keymaps),
            NumberConverter(),
            StringConverter()
        )
    ).build()


val resultObj = parser.parse("health -s deferred") as GetHealthCommand
// resultObj.scheduleType == ScheduleType.DEFERRED

salat-23/sparser

Sparser - advanced string to object parser library written in Kotlin