#moonbit-argkit

#Features

• short flags: -v
• long flags: --verbose
• options with values: --output dist
• inline option values: --output=dist
• required option checks
• default values
• positional arguments
• -- separator handling
• schema validation and user-facing error reports
• parse summaries for demos and small tools
• typed values for integers, booleans, and enum-like choices
• subcommand helpers
• short flag bundles such as -abc
• negative booleans such as --no-color
• simple config/env layering helpers
• shell completion, diagnostics, and Markdown/manpage rendering helpers
• generated help text

#Install

moon add cauchyQ/moonbit-argkit@0.1.0

moon check
moon test
moon run cmd/demo

#Example

let args = ["--input", "data.txt", "-v", "row1"]
debug_inspect(has(args, "verbose", "v"), content="true")
debug_inspect(value(args, "input", "i"), content="Some(\"data.txt\")")
debug_inspect(value_or(args, "output", "o", "out.txt"), content="out.txt")
debug_inspect(
  positionals(args, ["input"], ["i"], ["verbose"], ["v"]),
  content="[\"row1\"]",
)

let args = ["--input=data.txt", "-v", "row1"]
debug_inspect(
  validation_report(
    args,
    ["input"],
    ["i"],
    ["input"],
    ["i"],
    ["verbose"],
    ["v"],
  ),
  content="\"ok\"",
)
debug_inspect(
  parse_summary(args, ["input"], ["i"], ["verbose"], ["v"]),
  content="[\"value:input=data.txt\", \"flag:verbose=true\", \"arg:row1\"]",
)

println(help_text(
  "demo",
  "read rows from an input file",
  ["input", "output"],
  ["i", "o"],
  ["input file", "output file"],
  ["verbose"],
  ["v"],
  ["print extra logs"],
))

#License