Shell completion

Cliffy supports shell completion out of the box. To enable shell completions it is required to register the completions command.

The completions command generates a shell completions script for your specific shell environment. Currently supported shells are:

• bash
• fish
• zsh

The completions script enables completions for all sub-commands, options and arguments.

There are three ways to add shell completions to types which are explained in the following sections.

Enum type

One way is to use the EnumType. All values defined with the EnumType will be used for shell completions. Read more about the enum type here.

import { Command, EnumType } from "https://deno.land/x/cliffy@v0.25.7/command/mod.ts";

const colorType = new EnumType(["red", "blue", "yellow"]);

await new Command()
  .type("color", colorType)
  .arguments("[color-name:color]")
  .option("-c, --color <name:color>", "Choose a color.")
  .parse(Deno.args);Copy

Complete method

Another way to add completions is by registering a completions action with the .complete() method. The values returned by the .complete() method will be used for shell completions.

To use these completions you can add the name of the action after the type separated by colon.

i

❗ Completions defined with the .complete() method will override the completions defined with a type.

import { Command } from "https://deno.land/x/cliffy@v0.25.7/command/mod.ts";

await new Command()
  .complete("color", () => ["red", "blue", "yellow"])
  .arguments("[color-name:string:color]")
  .option("-c, --color <name:string:color>", "Choose a color.")
  .parse(Deno.args);Copy

Custom type

The 3rd way to add shell completions is by creating a custom type with a .complete() method. The values returned by the .complete() method will be used for shell completions. You can read more about custom types here.

import { Command, StringType } from "https://deno.land/x/cliffy@v0.25.7/command/mod.ts";

class ColorType extends StringType {
  complete(): Array<string> {
    return ["red", "blue", "yellow"];
  }
}

await new Command()
  .type("color", new ColorType())
  .option("-c, --color <name:color>", "Choose a color.")
  .parse(Deno.args);Copy