seancorfield/dot-clojure

Can it add an `-Xalias list` option to list out all deps.edn aliases?

stardiviner opened this issue · 5 comments

stardiviner commented

Hope dot-clojure can add a command-line option to list all configured deps.end aliases. So that users don't need to view the deps.edn to get to know about them.

Is this possible?

seancorfield commented

There is no built-in facility within the Clojure CLI to list available aliases.

stardiviner commented

I implemented one code. Don't know whether it is suitable.

{:aliases
 {:alias {:main-opts, ["-e", "(let [edn (slurp (.getPath (clojure.java.io/file (clojure.string/replace-first \"~/.clojure/deps.edn\" \"~\" (System/getProperty \"user.home\")))))] (doseq [key (keys (:aliases (clojure.edn/read-string edn)))] (println key)))"]}}}
seancorfield commented

That won't work on XDG systems (just FYI) and, yes, I know I have something similar in my :dev/repl alias but, as it says in the README, this is my personal file provided as an example of what's possible.

I think a tool based on tools.deps.alpha would be the best approach since it can list all the aliases available in a given context (there are aliases in the root deps.edn and potentially in a project deps.edn too).

You could post on https://ask.clojure.org asking for a feature like that to be added directly to t.d.a so you could do something like clojure -X:deps aliases

stardiviner commented

That's good advice. Thanks. I will post there.

seancorfield commented

If you do, I'll upvote it because I think it would be useful.