Improve documentation for flags

See #329
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Brad Peabody 2017-07-22 22:26:21 -07:00 committed by Anthony Fok
parent 9766537120
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@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Like `BindEnv`, the value is not set when the binding method is called, but when
it is accessed. This means you can bind as early as you want, even in an
`init()` function.
The `BindPFlag()` method provides this functionality.
For individual flags, the `BindPFlag()` method provides this functionality.
Example:
@ -245,6 +245,19 @@ serverCmd.Flags().Int("port", 1138, "Port to run Application server on")
viper.BindPFlag("port", serverCmd.Flags().Lookup("port"))
```
You can also bind an existing set of pflags (pflag.FlagSet):
Example:
```go
pflag.Int("flagname", 1234, "help message for flagname")
pflag.Parse()
viper.BindPFlags(pflag.CommandLine)
i := viper.GetInt("flagname") // retrieve values from viper instead of pflag
```
The use of [pflag](https://github.com/spf13/pflag/) in Viper does not preclude
the use of other packages that use the [flag](https://golang.org/pkg/flag/)
package from the standard library. The pflag package can handle the flags
@ -263,9 +276,17 @@ import (
)
func main() {
// using standard library "flag" package
flag.Int("flagname", 1234, "help message for flagname")
pflag.CommandLine.AddGoFlagSet(flag.CommandLine)
pflag.Parse()
...
viper.BindPFlags(pflag.CommandLine)
i := viper.GetInt("flagname") // retrieve value from viper
...
}
```