A tiny library that can wrap PlutoUI.jl elements so they can be used as command line arguments too.
Wrap Arg(<option name>, <control element>) around your control elements.
@bind enabled Arg("enabled", CheckBox())
@bind vegetable Arg("vegetable", MultiSelect(["potato", "carrot", "beetroot"]); required=false)
Run this in Pluto to get UI controls, or from the CLI like this:
julia <path to script> --enabled true --vegetable potato carrot
Arg is the only interface, so this is the entire documentation:
Arg(name::String, element; required=true, short_name=nothing, type=nothing)
Construct a wrapper around a Pluto element that is a CLI option called
--<name> if not run from Pluto.
Keyword arguments:
- `required`: if passing this option is required if running from CLI. If
`required == false` and the option is not passed, the `initial_value`of the
PlutoUI element will be taken.
- `short_name`: the single-dashed short cli name, if you pass "k" it will be -k
- `type`: override type to convert the CLI argument into, if `nothing`, the type of
`initial_value` will be considered
- `args`: CLI args (defaults to `ARGS`)
The notebook run_in_pluto_or_cli.jl has a few examples that you can try.
- Using a self-cooked argument parsing that will probably break sometimes
- One generic small function for all elements, so probably won't always work as expected
- No argument overview or help text, as everything is dynamic
- PlutoArgs does not complain if an argument doesn't exist, because it might be needed later
- Arguments are not (yet) validated but will be once Pluto supports
validate_value