Misc #14692: Question: Ruby stdlib's Option Parser

• Status: Assigned
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)

Hi,

The documentation of OptionParser says for further I can ask questions here.

Is there way to disable command/option completion ? I don't want a short "-f" option defined automatically if I declare "--file-name" , I have searched the internet and couldn't find a solution.

Hi,

The documentation of OptionParser says for further I can ask questions here.

Is there way to disable command/option completion ? I don't want a short "-f" option defined automatically if I declare "--file-name" , I have searched the internet and couldn't find a solution.

Any suggestions/work arounds would help me a lot, thanks !

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Currently, it is not able.
A possible workaround is to define an option which raise OptionParser::InvalidOption.

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote:

Currently, it is not able.
A possible workaround is to define an option which raise OptionParser::InvalidOption.

Can you please show me an example code on how to achieve this ?

I see the issue is in parser_in_order method

              begin
                sw, = complete(:short, opt)
                # short option matched.
                val = arg.sub(/\A-/, '')
                has_arg = true
              rescue InvalidOption
                # if no short options match, try completion with long
                # options.
                sw, = complete(:long, opt)
                eq ||= !rest
              end

where if no short options match, long options are matched. I want to suppress this behaviour and instead of rescue InvalidOption , I want to raise InvalidOption

Getoptlong doesn't have this behaviour of automatically matching long options, similar to Option Parsers in other standard libraries like that of python for example. It'd be great if its possible to have a functionality where users of OptionParser can suppress this behaviour..

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned