OpenCV CommandLineParser
cannot handle a variable number of positional arguments. You can:
- Pass an extra argument (e.g.
-N
) specifying the number of positional arguments;
- Consider every argument that doesn't start with
-
to be a positional argument.
You can then make a custom command line parser with the same interface as cv::CommandLineParser
able to handle a variable number of positional arguments.
Option 1
struct CustomCLP
{
CustomCLP(int argc, const char* const argv[], const cv::String& keys, const String& positional_id)
{
String pos_key = "{" + positional_id + "|0|}";
cv::CommandLineParser pos_clp(argc, argv, pos_key);
_N = pos_clp.get<int>(positional_id);
cv::String pos_keys = keys;
for (int i=0; i<_N; ++i)
{
pos_keys += "{@pos" + to_string(i) + "||}";
}
_clp = new CommandLineParser(argc, argv, pos_keys);
}
~CustomCLP()
{
delete _clp;
}
bool check() const {return _clp->check();}
bool has(const cv::String& name) const {return _clp->has(name);}
template<typename T>
T get(const String& name, bool space_delete = true) const
{
return _clp->get<T>(name, space_delete);
}
template<typename T>
T get(int index, bool space_delete = true) const
{
return _clp->get<T>(index, space_delete);
}
int n_positional_args() const { return _N;}
private:
CommandLineParser* _clp;
int _N;
};
You can specify the extra argument (e.g. -N
) that specify the number of positional arguments. In the constructor, you parse this number, and create a key for each positional argument. Then you can use it as always.
Option 2
// SO: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17976541/5008845
inline std::string trim(const std::string &s)
{
auto wsfront = std::find_if_not(s.begin(), s.end(), std::isspace);
return std::string(wsfront, std::find_if_not(s.rbegin(), std::string::const_reverse_iterator(wsfront), std::isspace).base());
}
struct CustomCLP2
{
CommandLineParser _clp;
vector<std::string> pos_args;
public:
CustomCLP2(int argc, const char* const argv[], const cv::String& keys) :
_clp(argc, argv, keys)
{
for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
{
std::string s(argv[i]);
s = trim(s);
if (s[0] == '-') continue;
pos_args.push_back(s);
}
}
bool check() const { return _clp.check(); }
bool has(const cv::String& name) const { return _clp.has(name); }
template<typename T>
T get(const String& name, bool space_delete = true) const
{
return _clp.get<T>(name, space_delete);
}
template<typename T>
T get(int index, bool space_delete = true) const
{
stringstream ss;
ss << pos_args[index];
T t;
ss >> t;
return t;
}
template<>
cv::String get(int index, bool space_delete) const
{
return cv::String(pos_args[index]);
}
int n_positional_args() const { return pos_args.size(); }
};
In the constructor you save every argument that doesn't start with -
. Then you can retrieve it as usual.
Usage
Note that the interface is consistent with CommandLineParser (a few methods like about
, getPathToApplication
are not available in this example, but it's easy to add them to the custom class).
Command line arguments are:
Option 1: -a -b=2 -N=3 a.txt b.txt c.txt
Option 2: -a -b=2 a.txt b.txt c.txt
Code:
#include <opencv2\opencv.hpp>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
struct CustomCLP
{
CustomCLP(int argc, const char* const argv[], const cv::String& keys, const String& positional_id)
{
String pos_key = "{" + positional_id + "|0|}";
cv::CommandLineParser pos_clp(argc, argv, pos_key);
_N = pos_clp.get<int>(positional_id);
cv::String pos_keys = keys;
for (int i=0; i<_N; ++i)
{
pos_keys += "{@pos" + to_string(i) + "||}";
}
_clp = new CommandLineParser(argc, argv, pos_keys);
}
~CustomCLP()
{
delete _clp;
}
bool check() const {return _clp->check();}
bool has(const cv::String& name) const {return _clp->has(name);}
template<typename T>
T get(const String& name, bool space_delete = true) const
{
return _clp->get<T>(name, space_delete);
}
template<typename T>
T get(int index, bool space_delete = true) const
{
return _clp->get<T>(index, space_delete);
}
int n_positional_args() const { return _N;}
private:
CommandLineParser* _clp;
int _N;
};
// SO: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17976541/5008845
inline std::string trim(const std::string &s)
{
auto wsfront = std::find_if_not(s.begin(), s.end(), std::isspace);
return std::string(wsfront, std::find_if_not(s.rbegin(), std::string::const_reverse_iterator(wsfront), std::isspace).base());
}
struct CustomCLP2
{
CommandLineParser _clp;
vector<std::string> pos_args;
public:
CustomCLP2(int argc, const char* const argv[], const cv::String& keys) :
_clp(argc, argv, keys)
{
for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
{
std::string s(argv[i]);
s = trim(s);
if (s[0] == '-') continue;
pos_args.push_back(s);
}
}
bool check() const { return _clp.check(); }
bool has(const cv::String& name) const { return _clp.has(name); }
template<typename T>
T get(const String& name, bool space_delete = true) const
{
return _clp.get<T>(name, space_delete);
}
template<typename T>
T get(int index, bool space_delete = true) const
{
stringstream ss;
ss << pos_args[index];
T t;
ss >> t;
return t;
}
template<>
cv::String get(int index, bool space_delete) const
{
return cv::String(pos_args[index]);
}
int n_positional_args() const { return pos_args.size(); }
};
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
String keys =
"{a | | whatever a}"
"{b | 1 | whatever b}";
//CustomCLP clp(argc, argv, keys, "N");
CustomCLP2 clp(argc, argv, keys);
if (clp.has("a")) {
cout << "Has <a>" << endl;
}
else {
cout << "Doesn't have <a>";
}
int b = clp.get<int>("b");
cout << "<b> : " << b << endl;
int N = clp.n_positional_args();
for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i)
{
cout << to_string(i) << ": " << clp.get<cv::String>(i) << endl;
}
return 0;
}