CLI Batteries

Opinionated batteries-included command line interface runtime utilities.

To use it, add it to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
cli-batteries = "0.1"

[build-dependencies]
cli-batteries = "0.1"

and call the build_rs function in your build.rs

fn main() {
    cli_batteries::build_rs().unwrap()
}

Then in your src/main.rs you define app specific command line arguments using [clap::Parser][clap] and run the app as follows

use cli_batteries::{version, Parser};
use std::{path::PathBuf, io::Result};
use tokio::fs::File;

#[derive(Parser)]
#[group(skip)]
struct Options {
    /// File to read
    #[clap(long, env, default_value = "Readme.md")]
    file: PathBuf,
}

async fn app(options: Options) -> Result<()> {
    let mut file = File::open(options.file).await?;
    Ok(())
}

fn main() {
    cli_batteries::run(version!(), app);
}

You can see this working in the example project.

Features

• signals: Handle Ctrl-C, SIGINT and SIGTERM with gracefull shutdown.
• mimalloc: Use the mimalloc allocator with security hardening features enabled.
• rand: Log and configure random seeds.
• rayon: Log and configure number of threads.
• prometheus: Start a Prometheus metrics server.
• metered-allocator: Collect metric on memory allocation, enables prometheus.
• mock-shutdown: Enable the reset_shutdown function that allows re-arming shutdown for testing.
• tokio-console: Enable the --tokio-console option to start a Tokio console server on http://127.0.0.1:6669/ for async inspection.
• otlp: Enable the --trace-otlp option to push traces to an OpenTelementry collector.

Building and testing

Format, lint, build and test everything (I recommend creating a shell alias for this):

cargo fmt &&\
cargo clippy --all-features --all-targets &&\
cargo test --workspace --all-features --doc -- --nocapture &&\
cargo test --workspace --all-features --all-targets -- --nocapture &&\
cargo doc --workspace --all-features --no-deps

Check documentation coverage

RUSTDOCFLAGS="-Z unstable-options --show-coverage"  cargo doc --workspace --all-features --no-deps

To do

Goals:

Maybe: