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kawauso_process/invocation/
argument.rs

1//! One argument of an external command
2
3use std::ffi::OsStr;
4use std::ffi::OsString;
5use std::fmt::Display;
6use std::fmt::Formatter;
7use std::fmt::Result;
8use std::path::Path;
9use std::path::PathBuf;
10
11/// One argument of an external command
12///
13/// An argument holds what the program receives, as the caller wrote it.
14/// Nothing splits it at a space, removes a quotation mark, or expands a
15/// character such as `*`, because no shell reads the command. An argument
16/// that holds a space is one argument, and not two.
17///
18/// The value is an [`OsString`], because a program takes the strings of the
19/// operating system and not the strings of Rust. An argument can therefore
20/// carry a path that is not valid UTF-8, which a file system allows.
21///
22/// # Examples
23///
24/// ```
25/// use kawauso_process::invocation::Argument;
26///
27/// let argument = Argument::from("--message=two words");
28///
29/// assert_eq!(argument.get(), "--message=two words");
30/// ```
31#[derive(Clone, Eq, PartialEq, Ord, PartialOrd, Hash, Debug)]
32pub struct Argument(OsString);
33
34impl Argument {
35    /// Creates an argument from anything that becomes an [`OsString`]
36    ///
37    /// # Examples
38    ///
39    /// ```
40    /// use kawauso_process::invocation::Argument;
41    ///
42    /// let argument = Argument::new("--short");
43    ///
44    /// assert_eq!(argument.get(), "--short");
45    /// ```
46    pub fn new(argument: impl Into<OsString>) -> Self {
47        Self(argument.into())
48    }
49
50    /// Returns the argument as the caller wrote it
51    pub fn get(&self) -> &OsStr {
52        &self.0
53    }
54}
55
56/// Shows the argument for a reader
57///
58/// An argument that is not valid UTF-8 shows the replacement character
59/// `U+FFFD` for each byte that has no character. The text is for a person,
60/// and no caller reads it back into an argument.
61impl Display for Argument {
62    fn fmt(&self, formatter: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result {
63        write!(formatter, "{}", self.0.to_string_lossy())
64    }
65}
66
67/// Creates an argument from a borrowed string, such as a literal
68impl From<&str> for Argument {
69    fn from(argument: &str) -> Self {
70        Self::new(argument)
71    }
72}
73
74/// Creates an argument from a string that the application built at runtime
75impl From<String> for Argument {
76    fn from(argument: String) -> Self {
77        Self::new(argument)
78    }
79}
80
81/// Creates an argument from a borrowed string of the operating system
82impl From<&OsStr> for Argument {
83    fn from(argument: &OsStr) -> Self {
84        Self::new(argument)
85    }
86}
87
88/// Creates an argument from a string of the operating system
89impl From<OsString> for Argument {
90    fn from(argument: OsString) -> Self {
91        Self::new(argument)
92    }
93}
94
95/// Creates an argument from a borrowed path, such as the root of a project
96impl From<&Path> for Argument {
97    fn from(argument: &Path) -> Self {
98        Self::new(argument)
99    }
100}
101
102/// Creates an argument from a path that the application built at runtime
103impl From<PathBuf> for Argument {
104    fn from(argument: PathBuf) -> Self {
105        Self::new(argument)
106    }
107}
108
109#[cfg(test)]
110mod tests {
111    // An assertion in a test panics by design. A `# Panics` section on every
112    // test would repeat that and give the reader no information.
113    #![allow(clippy::missing_panics_doc)]
114
115    use super::*;
116
117    // An application that reads an argument from the environment holds an
118    // `OsString`, and the argument takes it without a conversion of its own.
119    #[test]
120    fn from_os_string_keeps_the_string() {
121        let argument = Argument::from(OsString::from("--short"));
122
123        assert_eq!(argument.get(), "--short");
124    }
125
126    // An application that names a file for a command holds a path, and the
127    // argument takes it without a conversion of its own.
128    #[test]
129    fn from_path_keeps_the_path() {
130        let argument = Argument::from(Path::new("src/main.rs"));
131
132        assert_eq!(argument.get(), "src/main.rs");
133    }
134
135    // The text of an argument reaches a log line through `Display`, and a
136    // caller that shows one argument gets it without quotation marks.
137    #[test]
138    fn to_string_returns_the_argument() {
139        let argument = Argument::from("two words");
140
141        assert_eq!(argument.to_string(), "two words");
142    }
143}