flannel/vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag/example_test.go

// Copyright 2012 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// These examples demonstrate more intricate uses of the flag package.
package pflag_test

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"time"

	flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"
)

// Example 1: A single string flag called "species" with default value "gopher".
var species = flag.String("species", "gopher", "the species we are studying")

// Example 2: A flag with a shorthand letter.
var gopherType = flag.StringP("gopher_type", "g", "pocket", "the variety of gopher")

// Example 3: A user-defined flag type, a slice of durations.
type interval []time.Duration

// String is the method to format the flag's value, part of the flag.Value interface.
// The String method's output will be used in diagnostics.
func (i *interval) String() string {
	return fmt.Sprint(*i)
}

func (i *interval) Type() string {
	return "interval"
}

// Set is the method to set the flag value, part of the flag.Value interface.
// Set's argument is a string to be parsed to set the flag.
// It's a comma-separated list, so we split it.
func (i *interval) Set(value string) error {
	// If we wanted to allow the flag to be set multiple times,
	// accumulating values, we would delete this if statement.
	// That would permit usages such as
	//	-deltaT 10s -deltaT 15s
	// and other combinations.
	if len(*i) > 0 {
		return errors.New("interval flag already set")
	}
	for _, dt := range strings.Split(value, ",") {
		duration, err := time.ParseDuration(dt)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		*i = append(*i, duration)
	}
	return nil
}

// Define a flag to accumulate durations. Because it has a special type,
// we need to use the Var function and therefore create the flag during
// init.

var intervalFlag interval

func init() {
	// Tie the command-line flag to the intervalFlag variable and
	// set a usage message.
	flag.Var(&intervalFlag, "deltaT", "comma-separated list of intervals to use between events")
}

func Example() {
	// All the interesting pieces are with the variables declared above, but
	// to enable the flag package to see the flags defined there, one must
	// execute, typically at the start of main (not init!):
	//	flag.Parse()
	// We don't run it here because this is not a main function and
	// the testing suite has already parsed the flags.
}