# PolyDup CLI - Implementation Summary
## Overview
Implemented a complete command-line interface for PolyDup using **clap** for argument parsing and **anyhow** for error handling.
## Features Implemented
### Command-Line Arguments
**Required:**
- `paths`: List of files/directories to scan (accepts multiple paths)
**Optional flags:**
- `--format` (`-f`): Output format (`text` or `json`), default: `text`
- `--threshold` (`-t`): Minimum code block size in tokens, default: `50`
- `--similarity` (`-s`): Similarity threshold (0.0-1.0), default: `0.85`
- `--verbose` (`-v`): Show detailed performance metrics
- `--help` (`-h`): Display help information
- `--version` (`-V`): Display version
### Error Handling
**Input Validation:**
- Similarity threshold must be between 0.0 and 1.0
- Minimum block size must be greater than 0
- All errors use `anyhow` with context for clear error messages
**Graceful Failures:**
- Non-existent paths: Scans 0 files, reports no duplicates (no crash)
- Invalid configurations: Clear error messages with exit code 1
### Output Formats
**Text Format (Human-Readable):**
```
Scan Results
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Files scanned: 4
Functions analyzed: 45
Duplicates found: 0
No duplicates found!
```
With duplicates:
```
Duplicates
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
└─ src/file2.rs:78
```
**JSON Format (Machine-Readable):**
```json
{
"files_scanned": 4,
"functions_analyzed": 45,
"duplicates": [],
"stats": {
"total_lines": 0,
"total_tokens": 3665,
"unique_hashes": 2666,
"duration_ms": 8
}
}
```
**Verbose Mode:**
- Adds pre-scan configuration summary
- Shows performance metrics (duration, tokens, hashes)
- Displays hash values for each duplicate
### Exit Codes
- **0**: Success (no duplicates found)
- **1**: Failure (duplicates found or error occurred)
Enables CI/CD integration where duplicate detection can fail builds.
## Architecture
### File Structure
```
crates/polydup-cli/
├── Cargo.toml # Dependencies: clap, anyhow, serde_json, polydup-core
├── src/
│ └── main.rs # CLI implementation (151 lines)
└── README.md # User documentation
```
### Key Components
**1. Argument Parsing (clap)**
```rust
#[derive(Parser)]
struct Cli {
paths: Vec<PathBuf>,
format: OutputFormat,
min_block_size: usize,
similarity: f64,
verbose: bool,
}
```
**2. Scanner Integration**
```rust
let scanner = dupe_core::Scanner::with_config(
cli.min_block_size,
cli.similarity
)?;
let report = scanner.scan(cli.paths)?;
```
**3. Output Formatting**
- `print_text_report()`: Human-readable output with formatting
- JSON: Direct serialization via `serde_json`
## Testing
### Build
```bash
cargo build --release -p polydup-cli
# Output: target/release/polydup
```
### Tests Performed
1. Help display: `polydup --help`
2. Version display: `polydup --version`
3. Text output: `polydup ./src`
4. JSON output: `polydup ./src --format json`
5. Verbose mode: `polydup ./src --verbose`
6. Parameter adjustment: `polydup ./src --threshold 30 --similarity 0.9`
7. Multiple paths: `polydup ./src ./lib`
8. Error handling: Invalid threshold, zero block size
9. Non-existent paths: No crash, clean output
### Performance
- 4 files, 45 functions: **8ms** (release build)
- 12 files, 105 functions: **10ms** (release build)
## Dependencies
```toml
[dependencies]
anyhow = "1.0" # Error handling with context
clap = "4.5" # CLI argument parsing with derive macros
serde_json = "1.0" # JSON serialization
polydup-core = "0.1.0" # Core duplicate detection engine
```
## Usage Examples
### Basic
```bash
polydup ./src
```
### Advanced
```bash
polydup ./src ./lib \
--threshold 30 \
--similarity 0.9 \
--format json \
--verbose > report.json
```
### CI/CD
```bash
if ! polydup ./src --threshold 100; then
echo "❌ Duplicates detected!"
exit 1
fi
```
## Design Decisions
### Why No Subcommands?
- Single responsibility: Scanning for duplicates
- Simpler UX: `polydup <paths>` vs `polydup scan <paths>`
- Can add subcommands later if needed (e.g., `polydup analyze`, `polydup report`)
### Why Text Default?
- Most common use case is human inspection
- JSON available for scripting/automation
- Matches common CLI tool conventions (git, cargo, etc.)
### Why Exit Code 1 for Duplicates?
- Enables fail-fast in CI/CD pipelines
- Treats duplicates as actionable issues
- Standard practice for linting/analysis tools
### Why Tokio Removed?
- Original implementation used `#[tokio::main]`
- Not needed: Scanner already uses Rayon for parallelism
- Simplified to synchronous `fn main()` → smaller binary, faster startup
## Future Enhancements
Potential improvements:
- [ ] Configuration file support (`.polyduprc.toml`)
- [ ] Watch mode for continuous scanning
- [ ] HTML report generation
- [ ] Git integration (scan changed files only)
- [ ] Ignore patterns (`.polydupignore`)
- [ ] Language filtering (`--lang rust,python`)
- [ ] Parallel scanning of multiple path groups
## Documentation
Complete user documentation in [README.md](./README.md) including:
- Installation instructions
- Usage examples
- CLI options reference
- CI/CD integration patterns
- Performance tuning guide
- Troubleshooting tips
## Status
**Complete and Production-Ready**
All requirements met:
- Accepts paths, --format, --threshold arguments
- Calls dupe_core::Scanner properly
- Prints results to stdout (text and JSON)
- Error handling with anyhow and context
- Comprehensive documentation
- Tested on real codebases