簡介

Cobra既是一個用來創建強大的現代CLI命令行的golang庫，也是一個生成程序應用和命令行文件的程序。下面是Cobra使用的一個演示：

Cobra提供的功能

• 簡易的子命令行模式，如 app server， app fetch等等
• 完全兼容posix命令行模式
• 嵌套子命令subcommand
• 支持全局，局部，串聯flags
• 使用Cobra很容易的生成應用程序和命令，使用cobra create appname和cobra add cmdname
• 如果命令輸入錯誤，將提供智能建議，如 app srver，將提示srver沒有，是否是app server
• 自動生成commands和flags的幫助信息
• 自動生成詳細的help信息，如app help
• 自動識別-h，--help幫助flag
• 自動生成應用程序在bash下命令自動完成功能
• 自動生成應用程序的man手冊
• 命令行別名
• 自定義help和usage信息
• 可選的緊密集成的viper apps

如何使用

上面所有列出的功能我沒有一一去使用，下面我來簡單介紹一下如何使用Cobra，基本能夠滿足一般命令行程序的需求，如果需要更多功能，可以研究一下源碼github。

安裝cobra

Cobra是非常容易使用的，使用go get來安裝最新版本的庫。當然這個庫還是相對比較大的，可能需要安裝它可能需要相當長的時間，這取決於你的速網。安裝完成後，打開GOPATH目錄，bin目錄下應該有已經編譯好的cobra.exe程序，當然你也可以使用源代碼自己生成一個最新的cobra程序。

> go get -v github.com/spf13/cobra/cobra

使用cobra生成應用程序

假設現在我們要開發一個基於CLIs的命令程序，名字為demo。首先打開CMD，切換到GOPATH的src目錄下[^1]，執行如下指令：
[^1]:cobra.exe只能在GOPATH目錄下執行

src> ..\bin\cobra.exe init demo 
Your Cobra application is ready at
C:\Users\liubo5\Desktop\transcoding_tool\src\demo
Give it a try by going there and running `go run main.go`
Add commands to it by running `cobra add [cmdname]`
 

在src目錄下會生成一個demo的文件夾，如下：

? demo
    ? cmd/
        root.go
    main.go

如果你的demo程序沒有subcommands，那麽cobra生成應用程序的操作就結束了。

如何實現沒有子命令的CLIs程序

接下來就是可以繼續demo的功能設計了。例如我在demo下面新建一個包，名稱為imp。如下：

? demo
    ? cmd/
        root.go
    ? imp/
        imp.go
        imp_test.go
    main.go

imp.go文件的代碼如下：

package imp

import(
    "fmt"
)

func Show(name string, age int) {
    fmt.Printf("My Name is %s, My age is %d\n", name, age)
}

demo程序成命令行接收兩個參數name和age，然後打印出來。打開cobra自動生成的main.go文件查看：

// Copyright © 2016 NAME HERE <EMAIL ADDRESS>
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

package main

import "demo/cmd"

func main() {
    cmd.Execute()
}

可以看出main函數執行cmd包，所以我們只需要在cmd包內調用imp包就能實現demo程序的需求。接著打開root.go文件查看：

// Copyright © 2016 NAME HERE <EMAIL ADDRESS>
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

package cmd

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"

    "github.com/spf13/cobra"
    "github.com/spf13/viper"
)

var cfgFile string

// RootCmd represents the base command when called without any subcommands
var RootCmd = &cobra.Command{
    Use:   "demo",
    Short: "A brief description of your application",
    Long: `A longer description that spans multiple lines and likely contains
examples and usage of using your application. For example:

Cobra is a CLI library for Go that empowers applications.
This application is a tool to generate the needed files
to quickly create a Cobra application.`,
// Uncomment the following line if your bare application
// has an action associated with it:
//  Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) { },
}

// Execute adds all child commands to the root command sets flags appropriately.
// This is called by main.main(). It only needs to happen once to the rootCmd.
func Execute() {
    if err := RootCmd.Execute(); err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        os.Exit(-1)
    }
}

func init() {
    cobra.OnInitialize(initConfig)

    // Here you will define your flags and configuration settings.
    // Cobra supports Persistent Flags, which, if defined here,
    // will be global for your application.

    RootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVar(&cfgFile, "config", "", "config file (default is $HOME/.demo.yaml)")
    // Cobra also supports local flags, which will only run
    // when this action is called directly.
    RootCmd.Flags().BoolP("toggle", "t", false, "Help message for toggle")
}

// initConfig reads in config file and ENV variables if set.
func initConfig() {
    if cfgFile != "" { // enable ability to specify config file via flag
        viper.SetConfigFile(cfgFile)
    }

    viper.SetConfigName(".demo") // name of config file (without extension)
    viper.AddConfigPath("$HOME")  // adding home directory as first search path
    viper.AutomaticEnv()          // read in environment variables that match

    // If a config file is found, read it in.
    if err := viper.ReadInConfig(); err == nil {
        fmt.Println("Using config file:", viper.ConfigFileUsed())
    }
}

從源代碼來看cmd包進行了一些初始化操作並提供了Execute接口。十分簡單，其中viper是cobra集成的配置文件讀取的庫，這裏不需要使用，我們可以註釋掉（不註釋可能生成的應用程序很大約10M，這裏沒喲用到最好是註釋掉）。cobra的所有命令都是通過cobra.Command這個結構體實現的。為了實現demo功能，顯然我們需要修改RootCmd。修改後的代碼如下：

// Copyright © 2016 NAME HERE <EMAIL ADDRESS>
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

package cmd

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"

    "github.com/spf13/cobra"
    //  "github.com/spf13/viper"
    "demo/imp"
)

//var cfgFile string
var name string
var age int

// RootCmd represents the base command when called without any subcommands
var RootCmd = &cobra.Command{
    Use:   "demo",
    Short: "A test demo",
    Long:  `Demo is a test appcation for print things`,
    // Uncomment the following line if your bare application
    // has an action associated with it:
    Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
        if len(name) == 0 {
            cmd.Help()
            return
        }
        imp.Show(name, age)
    },
}

// Execute adds all child commands to the root command sets flags appropriately.
// This is called by main.main(). It only needs to happen once to the rootCmd.
func Execute() {
    if err := RootCmd.Execute(); err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        os.Exit(-1)
    }
}

func init() {
    //  cobra.OnInitialize(initConfig)

    // Here you will define your flags and configuration settings.
    // Cobra supports Persistent Flags, which, if defined here,
    // will be global for your application.

    //  RootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVar(&cfgFile, "config", "", "config file (default is $HOME/.demo.yaml)")
    // Cobra also supports local flags, which will only run
    // when this action is called directly.
    //  RootCmd.Flags().BoolP("toggle", "t", false, "Help message for toggle")
    RootCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&name, "name", "n", "", "person‘s name")
    RootCmd.Flags().IntVarP(&age, "age", "a", 0, "person‘s age")
}

// initConfig reads in config file and ENV variables if set.
//func initConfig() {
//  if cfgFile != "" { // enable ability to specify config file via flag
//      viper.SetConfigFile(cfgFile)
//  }

//  viper.SetConfigName(".demo") // name of config file (without extension)
//  viper.AddConfigPath("$HOME") // adding home directory as first search path
//  viper.AutomaticEnv()         // read in environment variables that match

//  // If a config file is found, read it in.
//  if err := viper.ReadInConfig(); err == nil {
//      fmt.Println("Using config file:", viper.ConfigFileUsed())
//  }
//}

到此demo的功能已經實現了，我們編譯運行一下看看實際效果：

>demo.exe
Demo is a test appcation for print things

Usage:
  demo [flags]

Flags:
  -a, --age int       person‘s age
  -h, --help          help for demo
  -n, --name string   person‘s name

>demo -n borey --age 26
My Name is borey, My age is 26

如何實現帶有子命令的CLIs程序

在執行cobra.exe init demo之後，繼續使用cobra為demo添加子命令test：

src\demo>..\..\bin\cobra add test
test created at C:\Users\liubo5\Desktop\transcoding_tool\src\demo\cmd\test.go

在src目錄下demo的文件夾下生成了一個cmd\test.go文件，如下：

? demo
    ? cmd/
        root.go
        test.go
    main.go

接下來的操作就和上面修改root.go文件一樣去配置test子命令。效果如下：

src\demo>demo
Demo is a test appcation for print things

Usage:
  demo [flags]
  demo [command]

Available Commands:
  test        A brief description of your command

Flags:
  -a, --age int       person‘s age
  -h, --help          help for demo
  -n, --name string   person‘s name

Use "demo [command] --help" for more information about a command.

可以看出demo既支持直接使用標記flag，又能使用子命令

src\demo>demo test -h
A longer description that spans multiple lines and likely contains examples
and usage of using your command. For example:

Cobra is a CLI library for Go that empowers applications.
This application is a tool to generate the needed files
to quickly create a Cobra application.

Usage:
  demo test [flags]

調用test命令輸出信息，這裏沒有對默認信息進行修改。

src\demo>demo tst
Error: unknown command "tst" for "demo"

Did you mean this?
        test

Run ‘demo --help‘ for usage.
unknown command "tst" for "demo"

Did you mean this?
        test

這是錯誤命令提示功能

OVER

Cobra的使用就介紹到這裏，更新細節可去github詳細研究一下。這裏只是一個簡單的使用入門介紹，如果有錯誤之處，敬請指出，謝謝～

golang命令行庫cobra的使用