/** @page primercommand Command Development Primer
This page provides a primer for writing commands by introducing @c hello
module. The full source code used in this example can be found in
hello.c, and the @ref primercmdcode section shows how to use it.
A summary of this information can be found in @ref helpercommand .
@section primercmdhandler Command Handlers
Defining new commands and their helpers is easy. The following code
defines a simple command handler that delegates its argument parsing:
@code
COMMAND_HANDLER(handle_hello_command)
{
const char *sep, *name;
int retval = CALL_COMMAND_HANDLER(handle_hello_args);
if (ERROR_OK == retval)
command_print(CMD_CTX, "Greetings%s%s!", sep, name);
return retval;
}
@endcode
Here, the @c COMMAND_HANDLER macro establishes the function signature,
see in command.h by the @c __COMMAND_HANDLER macro.
The COMMAND_HELPER macro function allows defining functions with an
extended version of the base signature. These helper functions can be
called (with the appropriate parameters), the @c CALL_COMMAND_HANDLER
macro to pass any e as parameters to the following helper function:
The subsequent blocks of code are a normal C function that can do
anything, so only complex commands deserve should use comamnd helper
functions. In this respect, this example uses one to demonstrate how --
not when -- they should be used.
@code
static COMMAND_HELPER(handle_hello_args, const char **sep, const char **name)
{
if (argc > 1)
{
LOG_ERROR("%s: too many arguments", CMD_NAME);
return ERROR_COMMAND_SYNTAX_ERROR;
}
if (1 == CMD_ARGC)
{
*sep = ", ";
*name = CMD_ARGV[0];
}
else
*sep = *name = "";
return ERROR_OK;
}
@endcode
Of course, you may also call other macros or functions, but that extends
beyond the scope of this tutorial on writing commands.
@section primercmdreg Command Registration
Before this new function can be used, it must be registered somehow.
For a new module, registering should be done in a new function for
the purpose, which must be called from @c openocd.c:
@code
int hello_register_commands(struct command_context_s *cmd_ctx)
{
struct command_s *cmd = register_command(cmd_ctx, NULL, "hello",
NULL, COMMAND_ANY, "print greetings");
return cmd ? ERROR_OK : -ENOMEM;
}
@endcode
That's it! The command should now be registered and avaiable to scripts.
@section primercmdcode Trying These Example Commands
The commands may be enabled by editing src/openocd.c and uncommenting
the call to @c hello_register_commands and rebuilding the source tree.
Once OpenOCD has been built with this example code, the following script
demonstrate the abilities that the @c hello module provides:
@code
hello
hello World
hello {John Doe}
hello John Doe # error: too many arguments
@endcode
If saved in @c hello.cfg, then running openocd -f hello.cfg
should produce the following output before exiting:
@code
Greetings!
Greetings, World!
Greetings, John Doe!
Error: ocd_hello: too many arguments
@endcode
This difference between the registered and displayed command name comes from
the fact that the TCL scripts are provided with a stub that calls the munged
name. This stub wraps the internal ocd_
-prefixed routine,
providing a measure of high-level error handling.
*/