Overview

pascli is a library written for Free Pascal and aims to provide components that allow the rapid creation of command line applications.

It uses a Builder to allow the description of arguments, commands and options, performs the automatic validation of these parameters and also displays the appropriate syntax for using the application to the user.

This strategy allows the developer to focus on the implementation of commands and create an application with a simple code structure.

Features

• Fluent interface api to build the command strucuture.

• Built-in constraints to validate allowed commands, allowed options, not allowed options, and arguments.

• Short options or long options using the method AddOption

• Options with required value or not

• Command usage out of the box, outputs command information for a given command or general usage of the tool.

• Command version output procedure.

• Command colors unit to produce colored output to the user.

• Full unit tested.

Requirements

This library was developed using FPC 3.2.2, but it may work with older versions. Should work under Linux, MacOS and Windows.

License

pascli is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License.

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