Parse command line arguments directly into an annotation class using the power of the Dart build system and source_gen.

Setup #

Add three packages to pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  build_cli_annotations: ^0.1.0

dev_dependencies:
  build_cli: ^0.2.0
  build_runner: '>=0.7.10 <0.9.0'

• build_cli_annotations is a separate package containing the annotations you add to classes and members to tell build_cli what to do.
  • If the code you're annotating is in a published directory – lib, bin – put it in the dependencies section.
• build_cli contains the logic to generate the code.
  • It should almost always be put in dev_dependencies.
• build_runner contains the logic to run a build and generate code.
  • It should almost always be put in dev_dependencies.

Details #

Uses package:args under the covers.

At the moment, this project is very light on documentation and tests. The test directory contains some examples for inspiration.

Also look at the package:peanut source code. The bin directory as the interesting files.