cli

A CLI(Command Line Interface) example build in pure C. Designed for MCU, support block / non-block mode input.

File tree

• <cli.c> <cli.h>
  • Basic CLI function library.
• <terminal.c> <terminal.h>
  • An example of terminal application with some basic command.
• <term_io.c> <term_io.h>
  • An example of terminal IO stream handle with history, delete, insert function support.

Complie

make all | clean | debug

How it works

STEP1: Build a command list.

Register all needed CLI function and link the function call back.

>help
help    Show the command list
test    Run a argument parse example.
time    Get current time stamp
quit    Quit the process
version Show Command version
echo    Echo back command
history Show command history

STEP2: Build option list for each command if needed.

Here is a simple implement to handle options with prefix with - & --.

>test -h
Basic Options:
	-h   --help      :Show help hints
	-i   --int       :Get a Integer value
	-s   --string    :Get a String value
	-b   --bool      :Get a Boolean value

STEP3: Check input characters

• In block mode, the process will block until user press ENTER. This is usually the default method when you are using stdio functions in OS environment. Flow control like delete back space left arrow & etc is handled by OS and your will get a pure string ended with \n.
• In non-blocking mode, it works more efficiently on a general MCU application. Assume your are buffering UART received characters in a ring buffer, and the CLI will check this buffer area on every loop until getting a certain character like \n. Here also provide a example of handling flow control of delete arrow and history callback since usually you don't have it in a MCU library.

STEP3: Parse input string

1. Assume the input string is"test -i 123\n"
2. Break down the string to tokens by defined separator (e.g. space)"test" "-i" "123"
3. Search the 1st token in the stCliCommand list to determine which fucntion to call, here your are calling test with the reset tokensint Command_test(2, "-i" "123")
4. Parse the tokens with given stCliOption list, here -i is defined like this:{ OPT_INT, 'i', "int", "Get a Integer value", (void*) &Tempdata.IntData }, So "123" is defined as integer and it will be convert to a int value and pass to defined pointer.

>test -i 123
Result: Int[123] String[] Bool[0]