yacl's Introduction

YACL

	Yet Another Command Line

Getting Started

Create a new C# console application
Add a reference to YACL
Derive your class with Main in it from YACL.ApplicationBase

In your Main, do the following:

 var app = new Program();
 app.Start(args);

Anywhere in the same assembly with Main, create classes that derive from YACL.CommandBase

Here's an example implementation of a YACL Command

 using System;
 using System.Text;
 using YACL;

 namespace MyApp.Commands
 {
     public class FooCommand : CommandBase
     {
         public override string Name
         {
             get { return "foo"; }
         }

         public override string Description
         {
             get { return "runs the foo."; }
         }

         public override bool RequiresArguments
         {
             get { return true; }
         }

         public override string[] RequiredArguments
         {
             get
             {
                 return new[]
                 {
                     "arg1", "arg2"
                 };
             }
         }

         public override string Usage
         {
             get
             {
                 var usage = new StringBuilder();
                 usage.AppendFormat(myApp.exe foo arg1=value arg2=value");
                 return usage.ToString();
             }
         }

         public override void Execute()
         {
             foreach (var kvp in ParsedArguments)
             {
                 Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}", kvp.Key, kvp.Value);
             }
         }
     }
 }