Code-first command?

[lorentmustafa]

Spending some time reading the documentation and experimenting with the tool.

Wonder if there's a way that, creating an object from code would return it into a command line string before passing it to a process runner. Or am i missing the idea?

Lets say:

[Command(Name:"a")]
public class A {
[Option("x")
public int X {get; set;}
[Option("y")
public int Y {get; set;}
}

and then the creation of an object var A = new A { x = 1, y = 2 }, would pass the command to the runner as # a -x 1 -y 2.

[bilal-fazlani]

When inside dotnet runtime, wouldn't it be easier to just call the methods directly?

[lorentmustafa]

Yeah i get the idea, im just making a wrapper for another console application i have to use inside dotnet runtime, and was thinking if i could make use of the library to interpret the properties in the correct format, without writing custom formatters.

[drewburlingame]

Are you looking to serialize the object to a -x 1 -y 2 as output from the source application?

With CommandDotNet, arguments are not defined directly on a command class, but rather are always pinned to a method, so it wouldn't know how to interpret what you've defined above.

If you're looking to pass the serialized object json to the target application, the target application would need a separate command to parse the json since it's a different format than the command being passed in. Or you'd create a directive and token transformer that could convert the json into arguments before the command processor parses them.

Either way, there's nothing built in for this.