nushell/crates/nu-protocol
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Custom command attributes (#14906)
# Description
Add custom command attributes.

- Attributes are placed before a command definition and start with a `@`
character.
- Attribute invocations consist of const command call. The command's
name must start with "attr ", but this prefix is not used in the
invocation.
- A command named `attr example` is invoked as an attribute as
`@example`
-   Several built-in attribute commands are provided as part of this PR
    -   `attr example`: Attaches an example to the commands help text
        ```nushell
        # Double numbers
        @example "double an int"  { 5 | double }   --result 10
        @example "double a float" { 0.5 | double } --result 1.0
        def double []: [number -> number] {
            $in * 2
        }
        ```
    -   `attr search-terms`: Adds search terms to a command
    -   ~`attr env`: Equivalent to using `def --env`~
- ~`attr wrapped`: Equivalent to using `def --wrapped`~ shelved for
later discussion
    -   several testing related attributes in `std/testing`
- If an attribute has no internal/special purpose, it's stored as
command metadata that can be obtained with `scope commands`.
- This allows having attributes like `@test` which can be used by test
runners.
-   Used the `@example` attribute for `std` examples.
-   Updated the std tests and test runner to use `@test` attributes
-   Added completions for attributes

# User-Facing Changes
Users can add examples to their own command definitions, and add other
arbitrary attributes.

# Tests + Formatting

- 🟢 toolkit fmt
- 🟢 toolkit clippy
- 🟢 toolkit test
- 🟢 toolkit test stdlib

# After Submitting
- Add documentation about the attribute syntax and built-in attributes
- `help attributes`

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Co-authored-by: 132ikl <132@ikl.sh>
2025-02-11 06:34:51 -06:00
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src Custom command attributes (#14906) 2025-02-11 06:34:51 -06:00
tests Enable nushell error with backtrace (#14945) 2025-02-06 22:05:58 +08:00
Cargo.toml Bump to 0.102.1 dev version (#15012) 2025-02-05 00:19:48 -05:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

nu-protocol

The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.