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`CompletionKind` should support multiple options
The completion
parameter of @Argument
property wrapper only allows specifying a single CompletionKind
value which is not flexible enough. In some cases a command can take either a file or a directory, but only one of these kinds can be currently specified.
This might just be a documentation issue — IIRC .file
will also autocomplete directories, since the file you want might live in a directory. Since files can't contain anything else, the .directory
setting is essentially a subset of what .file
offers.
(The documentation for CompletionKind
is definitely thin, apologies.)
I tried the example below to see if .file
works for directories:
import ArgumentParser
@main
struct Repeat: ParsableCommand {
@Argument(help: "The file path to test completion", completion: .file())
var testFilePath: String
mutating func run() throws {
print("testFilePath: \(testFilePath)")
}
}
Good news:
- In fish and zsh, completions worked, but I'm not sure why they did.
Bad news:
- When you
swift build
the example code above, it emitsexample
binary as you'd expect. But when you runexample --generate-completion-script
for any shell, it uses executable name based on the@main
struct. Related to #570?
❯ .build/debug/example --generate-completion-script zsh
#compdef repeat
local context state state_descr line
_repeat_commandname=$words[1]
typeset -A opt_args
_repeat() {
integer ret=1
local -a args
args+=(
':test-file-path:_files'
'(-h --help)'{-h,--help}'[Show help information.]'
)
_arguments -w -s -S $args[@] && ret=0
return ret
}
_custom_completion() {
local completions=("${(@f)$($*)}")
_describe '' completions
}
_repeat
The documentation here has an example generating completions for example
that is then piped into _example
.
Based on that, perhaps we should:
- Reword the documentation to mention that
completion: .file()
without extension will offer directories in completions. That should close this issue. - Consider adding an alias
CompletionKind.path
that would be identical to.file
in behavior so that the name clarifies the intent? (Not sure about that, bloating the API surface is probably not such a great idea?) - I would be happy to try and work on #570 — seems doable and rewarding to fix a few bugs with one PR.
@natecook1000, how does that sound?