No error message for failed install command

[YuviGold]

No error message when trying to install a non existing app.

Expected Behaviour

1. Display an error message to the user.
2. Suggest available applications using levenshtein distance. Cobra does that for the root-level commands but not for nested commands
3. In case the application is available for get command, suggest to use it. For example when using arkade install kind the user most definitely intended to get it and not to install it on top of a cluster.

Current Behaviour

No error message is shown at all and the returned exit code is 0.

$ arkade install bla
$ echo $?           
0

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• [ ] Yes
• [X] No

Possible Solution

It seems cli/cli implemented the suggestions themselves. I would expect cobra to support it though. https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/029d49f3b38ebd54cd84b23732bb7efabfce4896/pkg/cmd/root/help.go#L51-L76

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. arkade install kind

Context

I was trying to get stuff and mistakenly used install command instead of get. Afterwards I noticed that install doesn't return any error message to the user to inform him of his mistake.

Your Environment

• What Kubernetes distribution are you using?

kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.3", GitCommit:"2e7996e3e2712684bc73f0dec0200d64eec7fe40", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-05-20T12:52:00Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.1", GitCommit:"5e58841cce77d4bc13713ad2b91fa0d961e69192", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-05-21T23:01:33Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

• Operating System and version (e.g. Linux, Windows, MacOS):

uname -a
Linux kursa 5.4.0-81-generic #91-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 15 19:09:17 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

• What arkade version is this?

arkade version
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Get Kubernetes apps the easy way

Version: 0.8.2
Git Commit: 8b3fbc0994129f6c14daef467593ae02799409c0

[alexellis]

Hi @YuviGold

Thanks for taking time to suggest an enhancement.

I think we would be willing to take a look at a PR that returned a different exit code and message for a mistyped or non-existing CLI for download.

Then we can discuss the lazy matching and fuzzy matching separately after.

Alex

[YuviGold]

Thank you @alexellis

I created 2 PRs:

• [x] https://github.com/alexellis/arkade/pull/529
• [ ] https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1500

I hope cobra will look into it soon :)