Currently we have a custom TextMarshalerFlag. It's a nice idea, allowing
anything implementing text marshaller to be used as a flag. That said,
we only ever used it in one place because it's not that obvious how to
use and it needs some boilerplate on the type itself too, apart of the
heavy boilerplate got the custom flag.
All in all there's no *need* to drop this feature just now, but while
porting the cmds over to cli @v3, all other custom flags worker
perfectly, whereas this one started crashing deep inside the cli
package. The flag handling in v3 got rebuild on generics and there are a
number of new methods needed; and my guess is that maybe one of them
doesn't work like this flag currently is designed too.
We could definitely try and redesign this flag for cli v3... but all
that effort and boilerplate just to use it for 1 flag in 1 location,
seems not worth it. So for now I'm suggesting removing it and maybe
reconsider a similar feature in cli v3 with however it will work.
* internal/flags: use filepath.Clean instead of path.Clean
* internal/flags: fix windows pipe issue
* internal/flags: modify test for windows
* internal/flags: use backticks, fix test
This change updates our urfave/cli dependency to the v2 branch of the library.
There are some Go API changes in cli v2:
- Flag values can now be accessed using the methods ctx.Bool,
ctx.Int, ctx.String, ... regardless of whether the flag is 'local' or
'global'.
- v2 has built-in support for flag categories. Our home-grown category
system is removed and the categories of flags are assigned as part of
the flag definition.
For users, there is only one observable difference with cli v2: flags must now
strictly appear before regular arguments. For example, the following command is
now invalid:
geth account import mykey.json --password file.txt
Instead, the command must be invoked as follows:
geth account import --password file.txt mykey.json
