9 Adding a raco Command
The set of commands supported by raco can be extended by installed collections and PLaneT packages. A command is added by defining raco-commands in the "info.rkt" library of a collection or package (see "info.rkt" File Format).
The value bound to raco-commands must be a list of command specifications, where each specification is a list of four values:
(list command-string |
implementationmodule-path |
description-string |
prominence) |
The command-string is the command name. Any unambiguous prefix of a command name can be supplied to raco to invoke the command.
The module-path names the implementation though a module path (in the sense of module-path?). The module is loaded and invoked through dynamic-require to run the command. The module can access command-line arguments through the current-command-line-arguments parameter, which is adjusted before loading the command module to include only the arguments to the command. The current-command-name parameter is also set to the command name used to load the command. When raco help is used on a command, the command is launched with an initial --help argument in current-command-line-arguments.
The description string is a short string used to describe the command in response to raco help. The description should not be capitalized or end with a period.
The prominence value should be a read number or #f. A #f value means that the command should not be included in the short list of “frequently used commands.” A number indicates the relative prominence of the command; the help command has a value of 110, and probably no command should be more prominent. The pack tool, which is currently ranked as the least-prominent of the frequently used commands, has a value of 10.
As an example, the "info.rkt" of the "compiler" collection might contain the
(define raco-commands |
'(("make" compiler/commands/make "compile source to bytecode" 100) |
("decompile" compiler/commands/decompile "decompile bytecode" #f))) |
so that make is treated as a frequently used command, while decompile is available as an infrequently used command.
9.1 Command Argument Parsing
(current-command-name) → (or/c string? #f) |
(current-command-name name) → void? |
name : (or/c string? #f) |
A command implementation can use this parameter to determine whether it was invoked via raco or through some other means.
The result of this function is suitable for use with command-line. For example, the decompile tool parses command-line arguments with
(define source-files |
(command-line |
#:program (short-program+command-name) |
#:args source-or-bytecode-file |
source-or-bytecode-file)) |
so that raco decompile --help prints
raco decompile [ <option> ... ] [<source-or-bytecode-file>] ... |
where <option> is one of |
--help, -h : Show this help |
-- : Do not treat any remaining argument as a switch (at this level) |
Multiple single-letter switches can be combined after one `-'; for |
example: `-h-' is the same as `-h --' |