cmd-object

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Cmd-Object is a little library that is used to turn objects into command line parameters.

Usage

All examples implicitly include cmd-object using:

var CmdObject = require('cmd-object');

Cmd-Object is used by creating a new CmdObject object with a base command. This base command is simply a simple executable name that begins the generated command line.

var javaCmd = CmdObject('java');

From there, command line arguments can be specified. This is done by specifying a property selector ($()), which reads a property of the object passed to generate() and uses its value for all subsequent transformations (until another selection occurs or generate() is called).

javaCmd.$('classpath').join(path.delimiter).wrap().prefix('-cp ')
       .$('jar').wrap().prefix('-jar ');

The above example will first take obj.classpath from the object passed to generate(obj) and

1. Join the array using path.delimiter character
2. Wrap that string (using the default, double quotes)
3. Prefix the quoted classpath string with the -cp flag and a space

Then it will proceed to take the obj.jar value and

1. Wrap the value using double quotes
2. Prefix it with -jar and a space

From there, you can now call generate() given the parameters, such as

var javaArgs = {
  classpath: [
    '.',
    './bin',
    './lib/*'
  ],
  jar: './someJar.jar'
};

javaCmd.generate(javaArgs, function(cmdLine){
  console.log(cmdLine);
});

The above will output:

java -cp ".:./bin:./lib/*" -jar "./someJar.jar"

Extending

If you'd like to extend the API (and the transformations available for selections), simply add funtions to CmdObject.API that accept a callback(err, transformedString) function as the last parameter.

Check the source code for examples on extending the API.