delve/_scripts/gen-usage-docs.go
Alessandro Arzilli caf6df0eb9
Documentation,cmd/dlv: clean up command line usage help (#3395)
Due to some very old mistakes too many of Delve's flags are declared as
persistent on cobra's root command. For example the headless flag is a
global flag but does not apply to connect, dap or trace; the backend
flag does not apply to replay, core and dap; etc.

Almost all global flags should have been declared as local flags on
individual subcommands. Unfortunately we can not change this without
breaking backwards compatibility, for example:

   dlv --headless debug

would not parse if headless was a flag of debug instead of a global
flag.

Instead we alter usage function and the markdown generation script to
strategically hide the flags that don't apply.

Fixes #2361
2023-08-09 10:37:55 -07:00

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Go

//go:build ignore
// +build ignore
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv/cmds"
"github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv/cmds/helphelpers"
"github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
)
const defaultUsageDir = "./Documentation/usage"
func main() {
usageDir := defaultUsageDir
if len(os.Args) > 1 {
usageDir = os.Args[1]
}
root := cmds.New(true)
cmdnames := []string{}
for _, subcmd := range root.Commands() {
cmdnames = append(cmdnames, subcmd.Name())
}
helphelpers.Prepare(root)
doc.GenMarkdownTree(root, usageDir)
root = nil
// GenMarkdownTree ignores additional help topic commands, so we have to do this manually
for _, cmdname := range cmdnames {
cmd, _, _ := cmds.New(true).Find([]string{cmdname})
helphelpers.Prepare(cmd)
doc.GenMarkdownTree(cmd, usageDir)
}
fh, err := os.OpenFile(filepath.Join(usageDir, "dlv.md"), os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY, 0)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("appending to dlv.md: %v", err)
}
defer fh.Close()
fmt.Fprintln(fh, "* [dlv log](dlv_log.md)\t - Help about logging flags")
fmt.Fprintln(fh, "* [dlv backend](dlv_backend.md)\t - Help about the `--backend` flag")
}