API to get all cake arguments

[junjiequ]

Hi communicity

I am looking for an API that could return me all the cake arguments availabe during the runtime. But I am not able to find any.
The immediate one I could think is CakeContext.Arguments, but it seems that the lookup table is not exposed in the CakeArguments class.

Could anyone point me the direction here please?
Thanks in advance!

[augustoproiete]

Cake doesn't have this API at the moment but it's being considered for a future version.

Would you be able to provide an example where this would be useful?

One workaround for now would be to use Environment.GetCommandLineArgs and parse the arguments yourself to build the lookup table you mentioned or, depending on what you need, a string search or regex search might do the trick.

var args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();

foreach (var arg in args)
{
    Information("{0}", arg);
}

// ...

[junjiequ]

Thanks for the help.

My use case might be quite dumb: I am merging all cake arguments together with the Environment Variables, after that I need to filter the key/value pairs based on certain key prefixes.

I know I could achive it using other ways...
But since there is an API to get all Environment Variables already, instinctively I am looking for a similar API from cake framework. That's where the question comes from...