v1.5.0
Spring 2022 Release π₯οΈ
Hello everyone! Welcome to another release of cobra. Completions continue to get better and better. This release adds a few really cool new features. We also continue to patch versions of our dependencies as they become available via dependabot. Happy coding!
Active help ππΌ
Shout out to @marckhouzam for a big value add: Active Help #1482. With active help, a program can provide some inline warnings or hints for users as they hit tab. Now, your CLIs can be even more intuitive to use!
Currently active help is only supported for bash V2 and zsh. Marc wrote a whole guide on how to do this, so make sure to give it a good read to learn how you can add this to your cobra code! https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/master/active_help.md
Group flags π§πΌβπ€βπ§πΌ
Cobra now has the ability to mark flags as required or exclusive as a group. Shout out to our newest maintainer @johnSchnake for this! #1654 Let's say you have a username
flag that MUST be partnered with a password
flag. Well, now, you can enforce those as being required together:
rootCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&u, "username", "u", "", "Username (required if password is set)")
rootCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&pw, "password", "p", "", "Password (required if username is set)")
rootCmd.MarkFlagsRequiredTogether("username", "password")
Flags may also be marked as "mutally exclusive" with the MarkFlagsMutuallyExclusive(string, string ... )
command API. Refer to our user guide documentation for further info!
Completions π
- Add backwards-compatibility tests for legacyArgs() by @marckhouzam in #1547
- feat: Add how to load completions in your current zsh session by @ondrejsika in #1608
- Introduce FixedCompletions by @emersion in #1574
- Add shell completion to flag groups by @marckhouzam in #1659
- Modify brew prefix path in macOS system by @imxw in #1719
- perf(bash-v2): use backslash escape string expansion for tab by @scop in #1682
- style(bash-v2): out is not an array variable, do not refer to it as such by @scop in #1681
- perf(bash-v2): standard completion optimizations by @scop in #1683
- style(bash): out is not an array variable, do not refer to it as such by @scop in #1684
- perf(bash-v2): short-circuit descriptionless candidate lists by @scop in #1686
- perf(bash-v2): speed up filtering entries with descriptions by @scop in #1689
- perf(bash-v2): speed up filtering menu-complete descriptions by @scop in #1692
- fix(bash-v2): skip empty completions when filtering descriptions by @scop in #1691
- perf(bash-v2): read directly to COMPREPLY on descriptionless short circuit by @scop in #1700
- fix: Don't complete _command on zsh by @twpayne in #1690
- Improve fish_completions code quality by @t29kida in #1515
- Fix handling of descriptions for bash v3 by @marckhouzam in #1735
- undefined or nil Args default to ArbitraryArgs by @umarcor in #1612
- Add Command.SetContext by @joshcarp in #1551
- Wrap printf tab with quotes by @PapaCharlie in #1665
Documentation π
- Fixed typos in completions docs - @cuishuang #1625
- Removed
CHANGELOG.md
as it isn't updated - @johnSchnake #1634 - Minor typo fix in
shell_completion.md
- @danieldn #1678 - Changed branch name in the cobra generator link to 'main' - @skywalker2909 #1645
- Fix Command.Context comment by @katexochen in #1639
- Change appropriate links from http:// to https:// where applicable - @deining #1695
Testing & CI βοΈ
- Test on Golang 1.18 - @umarcor #1635
- Use
RICHGO_FORCE_COLOR
- @umarcor #1647 - Adds size labeler GitHub action by @jpmcb in #1610
- Update
stale-bot
settings - @jpmcb #1609
Beep boop, bot commits π€
- Bumped golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 - @dependabot #1697
- Bump codelytv/pr-size-labeler from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 - @dependabot #1661
- Bump actions/stale from 1 to 5 by @dependabot in #1618
- Bump actions/cache from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #1640
- Bump actions/labeler from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #1620
- Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 2 to 3.1.0 by @dependabot in #1615
- Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #1619
- Bump github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 by @dependabot in #1688
- Bump actions/setup-go from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #1660
Misc π
- Use
errors.Is()
to check for errors - @Luap99 #1730 - Prefer ReplaceAll instead of Replace(..., -1) by @WhyNotHugo in #1530
- Add Kubescape to projects - @avinashupadhya99 #1642
- Add Pulumi as a project using cobra by @iwahbe in #1720
- Add Polygon Edge as a project using Cobra by @zivkovicmilos in #1672
Shoutout to ALL our contributors (and all the new first time contributors!!) - great work everyone!! Cobra and it's huge impact wouldn't be possible without you ππΌ π π
Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0