We updated the Command.args
to more closely resemble flags
Before
import { Command } from '@oclif/core'
export default MyCommand extends Command {
static args = [{name: arg1, description: 'an argument', required: true}]
public async run(): Promise<void> {
const {args} = await this.parse(MyCommand) // args is useless {[name: string]: any}
}
}
After
import { Command, Args } from '@oclif/core'
export default MyCommand extends Command {
static args = {
arg1: Args.string({description: 'an argument', required: true})
}
public async run(): Promise<void> {
const {args} = await this.parse(MyCommand) // args is { arg1: string }
}
}
These are the available Args:
- string
- integer
- boolean
- url
- file
- directory
- custom
- Removed
Interfaces.Command
since they were not usable for tests. These are replaced by types that are available under theCommand
namespace
Interfaces.Command => Command.Cached
Interfaces.Command.Class => Command.Class
Interfaces.Command.Loadable => Command.Lodable
- Removed the following interfaces from the export. Exporting all of these made it difficult to make non-breaking changes when modifying types and/or fixing compilation bugs. We are open to PRs to reintroduce these to the export if they are needed for your project
- Arg
- ArgInput
- ArgToken
- CLIParseErrorOptions
- CompletableFlag
- CompletableOptionFlag
- Completion
- CompletionContext
- Default
- DefaultContext
- Definition
- EnumFlagOptions
- FlagBase
- FlagInput
- FlagOutput
- FlagToken
- FlagUsageOptions
- Input
- List
- ListItem
- Metadata
- OptionalArg
- OptionFlagProps
- OutputArgs
- OutputFlags
- ParseFn
- ParserArg
- ParserInput
- ParserOutput
- ParsingToken
- RequiredArg
We flattened CliUx.ux
into ux
for ease of use
Before
import {CliUx} from '@oclif/core'
CliUx.ux.log('Hello World')
After
import {ux} from '@oclif/core'
ux.log('Hello World')
We removed the open
method since it was a direct import/export of the open
package. If you need this functionality, then you should import open
yourself.
- Flags.custom replaces Flags.build, Flags.enum, and Flags.option
- Removed builtin
color
flag - Renamed
globalFlags
tobaseFlags
globalFlags
was a misleading name because the flags added there weren't actually global to the entire CLI. Instead, they were just flags that would be inherited by any command that extended the command class they were defined in.
- In v1, any input that didn't match a flag definition was assumed to be an argument. This meant that misspelled flags, e.g.
--hekp
were parsed as arguments, instead of throwing an error. In order to handle this, oclif now assumes that anything that starts with a hyphen must be a flag and will throw an error if no corresponding flag definition is found. In other words, your command can no longer accept arguments that begin with a hyphen (fixes #526) - v1 allowed you to return an array from a flag's
parse
. This was added to support backwards compatibility for flags that separated values by commas (e.g.my-flag=val1,val2
). However, this was problematic because it didn't allow theparse
to manipulate the individual values. If you need this functionality, you can now set adelimiter
option on your flags. By doing so, oclif will split the string on the delimiter before parsing.
Writing plugins with ESM has always been possible, but it requires a handful of modifications for it to work, especially in the bin scripts. In v2 we've introduced an execute
method that the bin scripts can use to avoid having to make changes for ESM of CJS.
CJS bin/dev
before
#!/usr/bin/env node
const oclif = require('@oclif/core')
const path = require('path')
const project = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'tsconfig.json')
// In dev mode -> use ts-node and dev plugins
process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development'
require('ts-node').register({project})
// In dev mode, always show stack traces
oclif.settings.debug = true;
// Start the CLI
oclif.run().then(oclif.flush).catch(oclif.Errors.handle)
CJS bin/dev.js
after
#!/usr/bin/env node
// eslint-disable-next-line node/shebang
(async () => {
const oclif = await import('@oclif/core')
await oclif.execute({type: 'cjs', development: true, dir: __dirname})
})()
ESM bin/dev.js
before
#!/usr/bin/env ts-node
/* eslint-disable node/shebang */
import oclif from '@oclif/core'
import path from 'node:path'
import url from 'node:url'
// eslint-disable-next-line node/no-unpublished-import
import {register} from 'ts-node'
// In dev mode -> use ts-node and dev plugins
process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development'
register({
project: path.join(path.dirname(url.fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..', 'tsconfig.json'),
})
// In dev mode, always show stack traces
oclif.settings.debug = true
// Start the CLI
oclif
.run(process.argv.slice(2), import.meta.url)
.then(oclif.flush)
.catch(oclif.Errors.handle)
ESM bin/dev.js
after
#!/usr/bin/env node
// eslint-disable-next-line node/shebang
(async () => {
const oclif = await import('@oclif/core')
await oclif.execute({type: 'esm', dir: import.meta.url})
})()
Note that ESM and CJS plugins still require different settings in the tsconfig.json - you will still need to make those modifications yourself.
- Removed dependency on
@oclif/screen
- Replaced
@oclif/linewrap
withwordwrap