--help option and help command should print to stdout not stderr

--help and help are successful commands so output should not go to error.

    QE teams have requested this change, also users doing docker help | less
    or docker run --help | less would expect this to work.

    Usage statement should only be printed when the user asks for it.
    Errors should print error message and then suggest the docker COMMAND --help
    command to see usage information.

    The current behaviour causes the user to have to search for the error message
    and sometimes scrolls right off the screen.  For example a error on a
    "docker run" command is very difficult to diagnose.

    Finally erros should always exit with a non 0 exit code, if the user
    makes a CLI error.

Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> (github: rhatdan)
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Dan Walsh 2014-10-15 17:14:12 -04:00 committed by Michal Minar
parent c466b9baa5
commit 6c3b7f1932

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@ -410,6 +410,47 @@ func IsSet(name string) bool {
return CommandLine.IsSet(name)
}
// Indicator used to pass to BadArgs function
const (
Exact = 1
Max = 2
Min = 3
)
// Bad Args takes two arguments.
// The first one indicates whether the number of arguments should, be
// A Minimal number of arguments, a maximum number of arguments or
// The exact number of arguments required
// If the actuall number of arguments is not valid and error message
// prints and true is returned, otherwise false is returned
func (f *FlagSet) BadArgs(arg_type, nargs int) bool {
if arg_type == Max && f.NArg() > nargs {
if nargs == 1 {
fmt.Fprintf(f.out(), "docker: '%s' requires a maximum of 1 argument. See 'docker %s --help'.\n", f.name, f.name)
} else {
fmt.Fprintf(f.out(), "docker: '%s' requires a maximum of %d arguments. See 'docker %s --help'.\n", f.name, nargs, f.name)
}
return true
}
if arg_type == Exact && f.NArg() != nargs {
if nargs == 1 {
fmt.Fprintf(f.out(), "docker: '%s' requires 1 argument. See 'docker %s --help'.\n", f.name, f.name)
} else {
fmt.Fprintf(f.out(), "docker: '%s' requires %d arguments. See 'docker %s --help'.\n", f.name, nargs, f.name)
}
return true
}
if arg_type == Min && f.NArg() < nargs {
if nargs == 1 {
fmt.Fprintf(f.out(), "docker: '%s' requires a minimum of 1 argument. See 'docker %s --help'.\n", f.name, f.name)
} else {
fmt.Fprintf(f.out(), "docker: '%s' requires a minimum of %d arguments. See 'docker %s --help'.\n", f.name, nargs, f.name)
}
return true
}
return false
}
// Set sets the value of the named flag.
func (f *FlagSet) Set(name, value string) error {
flag, ok := f.formal[name]
@ -483,7 +524,7 @@ func defaultUsage(f *FlagSet) {
// Usage prints to standard error a usage message documenting all defined command-line flags.
// The function is a variable that may be changed to point to a custom function.
var Usage = func() {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Usage of %s:\n", os.Args[0])
fmt.Fprintf(CommandLine.output, "Usage of %s:\n", os.Args[0])
PrintDefaults()
}
@ -789,7 +830,7 @@ func Var(value Value, names []string, usage string) {
func (f *FlagSet) failf(format string, a ...interface{}) error {
err := fmt.Errorf(format, a...)
fmt.Fprintln(f.out(), err)
f.usage()
fmt.Fprintf(f.out(), "See 'docker %s --help'.\n", f.name)
return err
}