Support more than one level of subcommands

[balupton]

Right now we can do this:

program = require('commander')

program
    .version('0.0.1')

program
    .command('plugin-create <name>')
    .description('create plugin')

program
    .command('plugin-delete <name>')
    .description('delete plugin')

which results with:

  Usage: woodchuck.js [options] [command]

  Commands:

    plugin-create <name>
    create plugin

    plugin-delete <name>
    delete plugin

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

But we can't do this:

program = require('commander')

program
    .version('0.0.1')

program
    .command('plugin create <name>')
    .description('create plugin')

program
    .command('plugin delete <name>')
    .description('delete plugin')

which results with:

  Usage: woodchuck.js [options] [command]

  Commands:

    plugin <name>
    create plugin

    plugin <name>
    delete plugin

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

[balupton]

Possibly related to #1

[tj]

yup this is a really old uncompleted thing but the "infrastructure" is there

[serby]

+1 this would be handy

[goto100]

this is useful, like "git remote". "git remote add", "git remote rm"

[tj]

I had to implement this for component(1), and honestly I think it's cleaner to just do it the git way, via which and execute component-install, component-create etc. However that being said it would be possibly nice to build that into commander or something more convenient

[Grigore147]

Did anyone work on this? Would be great to have it working like this.

[tj]

it's pretty simple if you're going with the executable-CMD approach:

var bin = 'component-' + cmd;
var proc = spawn(bin, args, { stdio: 'inherit', customFds: [0, 1, 2] });

[Grigore147]

Hmm, sorry but I do not understand what you mean with this.

How this will allow something for ex.: app module install auth. So we could get it like so:

App.command('module install [name]')
  .description('install application module')
  .action(function(name) {
     //...
  });

[tj]

for example component install something invokes component-install something, this is how git and many others support commands, it's much more elegant IMO

[vjpr]

+1

I would like to be able to write app test server app test all app server, etc.

[diosney]

+1 Any updates on this?

[tj]

closing because git-style is a lot more elegant than the .action stuff from before