diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6662fb9..4855523 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ A Command has the following structure: ### Flags A Flag is a way to modify the behavior of an command. Cobra supports -fully posix compliant flags as well as the go flag package. +fully posix compliant flags as well as the go flag package. A Cobra command can define flags that persist through to children commands and flags that are only available to that command. @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ around it. In fact you can provide your own if you want. You can provide your own Help command or you own template for the default command to use. -The default help command is +The default help command is func (c *Command) initHelp() { if c.helpCommand == nil { @@ -448,6 +448,48 @@ func main() { } ``` + +## Alternative Error Handling + +Cobra also has functions where the return signature is an error. This allows for errors to bubble up to the top, providing a way to handle the errors in one location. The current list of functions that return an error is: + +* PersistentPreRunE +* PreRunE +* RunE +* PostRunE +* PersistentPostRunE + +**Example Usage using RunE:** + +```go +package main + +import ( + "errors" + "log" + + "github.com/spf13/cobra" +) + +func main() { + var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{ + Use: "hugo", + Short: "Hugo is a very fast static site generator", + Long: `A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with + love by spf13 and friends in Go. + Complete documentation is available at http://hugo.spf13.com`, + RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error { + // Do Stuff Here + return errors.New("some random error") + }, + } + + if err := rootCmd.Execute(); err != nil { + log.Fatal(err) + } +} +``` + ## Suggestions when "unknown command" happens Cobra will print automatic suggestions when "unknown command" errors happen. This allows Cobra to behavior similarly to the `git` command when a typo happens. For example: @@ -468,7 +510,7 @@ If you need to disable suggestions or tweak the string distance in your command, command.DisableSuggestions = true -or +or command.SuggestionsMinimumDistance = 1 @@ -552,4 +594,3 @@ Cobra is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See [LICENSE.txt](https://github [![Bitdeli Badge](https://d2weczhvl823v0.cloudfront.net/spf13/cobra/trend.png)](https://bitdeli.com/free "Bitdeli Badge") -