Test.Tasty.Options

Extensible options. They are used for provider-specific settings, ingredient-specific settings and core settings (such as the test name pattern).

IsOption class

class Typeable v => IsOption v where

An option is a data type that inhabits the IsOption type class.

Minimal complete definition

defaultValue, parseValue, optionName, optionHelp

Methods

defaultValue :: v

The value to use if the option was not supplied explicitly

parseValue :: String -> Maybe v

Try to parse an option value from a string

optionName :: Tagged v String

The option name. It is used to form the command line option name, for instance. Therefore, it had better not contain spaces or other fancy characters. It is recommended to use dashes instead of spaces.

optionHelp :: Tagged v String

The option description or help string. This can be an arbitrary string.

optionCLParser :: Parser v

A command-line option parser.

It has a default implementation in terms of the other methods. You may want to override it in some cases (e.g. add a short flag).

Even if you override this, you still should implement all the methods above, to allow alternative interfaces.

Do not supply a default value here for this parser! This is because if no value was provided on the command line we may lookup the option e.g. in the environment. But if the parser always succeeds, we have no way to tell whether the user really provided the option on the command line.

Instances

IsOption TestPattern

IsOption Timeout

IsOption NumThreads

IsOption HideSuccesses

IsOption Quiet

IsOption ListTests

Option sets and operations

data OptionSet

A set of options. Only one option of each type can be kept.

If some option has not been explicitly set, the default value is used.

Instances

Monoid OptionSet

Later options override earlier ones

setOption :: IsOption v => v -> OptionSet -> OptionSet

Set the option value

changeOption :: forall v. IsOption v => (v -> v) -> OptionSet -> OptionSet

Change the option value

lookupOption :: forall v. IsOption v => OptionSet -> v

Query the option value

singleOption :: IsOption v => v -> OptionSet

Create a singleton OptionSet

data OptionDescription where

The purpose of this data type is to capture the dictionary corresponding to a particular option.

Constructors

Option :: IsOption v => Proxy v -> OptionDescription

Utilities

flagCLParser

Arguments

:: IsOption v

=> Maybe Char

optional short flag

-> v

non-default value (when the flag is supplied)

-> Parser v

Command-line parser to use with flags

safeRead :: Read a => String -> Maybe a

Safe read function. Defined here for convenience to use for parseValue.