tendstofortytwo / cmdmap

Maps command line arguments to a Web API

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cmdmap's Issues

Decouple project code, make more extensible

Add multiple return types

• add support for multiple types
  • possibly via opts parameter rather than taking filename directly?
• return a file directly
  • preprocess params to detect configuration errors
  • add param type "outputFile", mandatory, which is the argument that the command-line program consumes as the "output file name". This filename will be generated randomly, the file will be saved to a temporary directory with this name, and then served.
    • allow file data to be sent, b64-encoded, in JSON
    • create a file stream object similar to stdout/err to be given to next()
• give control via next() to stdout/err
• return stdout/err as JSON
• only return stdout/err/both as string

Move examples to their own directory

• find out how other modules store examples
• store them in their own executable files, rather than expecting them to be copy-pasted from the readme
• cover all of the commonly used functionality
  • plain command
  • command with string args
  • command with file args
  • command with default args
  • command with invisible args
  • command with different seperators
  • command with exposed stdio