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This removes indirect dependencies from go.mod, and includes the fix for the missing -help flag info. The latest cobra release is v1.2.1. Given that there were minor security-related dependency cleanup during v1.2 release, I was tempted to pick up the latest version, but that caused dependency updates in golang.org/x/sys and golang.org/x/tools which may be too recent (golang.org/x/* follow the go's release support policy, so recent versions may not be compatible with go versions beyond go's official version support policy). Verified that dlv still builds with go1.12.x. (go1.12 is the oldest version of go that can build the latest delve already). $ go get -d github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.1.3 $ go mod tidy $ go mod vendor $ go run _scripts/gen-usage-docs.go
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Generating Markdown Docs For Your Own cobra.Command
Generating Markdown pages from a cobra command is incredibly easy. An example is as follows:
package main
import (
"log"
"github.com/spf13/cobra"
"github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
)
func main() {
cmd := &cobra.Command{
Use: "test",
Short: "my test program",
}
err := doc.GenMarkdownTree(cmd, "/tmp")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
That will get you a Markdown document /tmp/test.md
Generate markdown docs for the entire command tree
This program can actually generate docs for the kubectl command in the kubernetes project
package main
import (
"log"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd"
cmdutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util"
"github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
)
func main() {
kubectl := cmd.NewKubectlCommand(cmdutil.NewFactory(nil), os.Stdin, ioutil.Discard, ioutil.Discard)
err := doc.GenMarkdownTree(kubectl, "./")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
This will generate a whole series of files, one for each command in the tree, in the directory specified (in this case "./")
Generate markdown docs for a single command
You may wish to have more control over the output, or only generate for a single command, instead of the entire command tree. If this is the case you may prefer to GenMarkdown instead of GenMarkdownTree
out := new(bytes.Buffer)
err := doc.GenMarkdown(cmd, out)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
This will write the markdown doc for ONLY "cmd" into the out, buffer.
Customize the output
Both GenMarkdown and GenMarkdownTree have alternate versions with callbacks to get some control of the output:
func GenMarkdownTreeCustom(cmd *Command, dir string, filePrepender, linkHandler func(string) string) error {
//...
}
func GenMarkdownCustom(cmd *Command, out *bytes.Buffer, linkHandler func(string) string) error {
//...
}
The filePrepender will prepend the return value given the full filepath to the rendered Markdown file. A common use case is to add front matter to use the generated documentation with Hugo:
const fmTemplate = `---
date: %s
title: "%s"
slug: %s
url: %s
---
`
filePrepender := func(filename string) string {
now := time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339)
name := filepath.Base(filename)
base := strings.TrimSuffix(name, path.Ext(name))
url := "/commands/" + strings.ToLower(base) + "/"
return fmt.Sprintf(fmTemplate, now, strings.Replace(base, "_", " ", -1), base, url)
}
The linkHandler can be used to customize the rendered internal links to the commands, given a filename:
linkHandler := func(name string) string {
base := strings.TrimSuffix(name, path.Ext(name))
return "/commands/" + strings.ToLower(base) + "/"
}