From: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH installer] fix #7833: common: cli: ensure process exits with 1 if subcommand fails
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:59:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818095947.464930-1-c.heiss@proxmox.com> (raw)
Fixes #7833 [0].
Currently, errors from the `AppInfo::on_command` handler is propagated
and printed, but does not cause cli::run() to return a failure exit
code.
A small, custom error enum is introduced to differentiate between an
unknown/missing subcommand - which should also trigger the global help
menu - and errors from the command that was run.
Based on that, the appropriate `ExitCode` variant is set and propagated
back to the caller.
[0] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7833
Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>
---
proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs | 4 +-
proxmox-chroot/src/main.rs | 4 +-
proxmox-installer-common/src/cli.rs | 91 ++++++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs b/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs
index 730d7d8..728d8ee 100644
--- a/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs
+++ b/proxmox-auto-install-assistant/src/main.rs
@@ -560,8 +560,8 @@ GLOBAL OPTIONS:
Some("device-match") => cli::handle_command::<CommandDeviceMatchArgs>(args),
Some("device-info") => cli::handle_command::<CommandDeviceInfoArgs>(args),
Some("system-info") => cli::handle_command::<CommandSystemInfoArgs>(args),
- Some(s) => bail!("unknown subcommand '{s}'"),
- None => bail!("subcommand required"),
+ Some(s) => Err(cli::Error::UnknownSubcommand(s.to_owned())),
+ None => Err(cli::Error::SubcommandRequired),
},
})
}
diff --git a/proxmox-chroot/src/main.rs b/proxmox-chroot/src/main.rs
index 5f087bb..6544bf1 100644
--- a/proxmox-chroot/src/main.rs
+++ b/proxmox-chroot/src/main.rs
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ GLOBAL OPTIONS:
on_command: |s, args| match s {
Some("prepare") => cli::handle_command::<CommandPrepareArgs>(args),
Some("cleanup") => cli::handle_command::<CommandCleanupArgs>(args),
- Some(s) => bail!("unknown subcommand '{s}'"),
- None => bail!("subcommand required"),
+ Some(s) => Err(cli::Error::UnknownSubcommand(s.to_owned())),
+ None => Err(cli::Error::SubcommandRequired),
},
})
}
diff --git a/proxmox-installer-common/src/cli.rs b/proxmox-installer-common/src/cli.rs
index e2b4d81..1c9ef29 100644
--- a/proxmox-installer-common/src/cli.rs
+++ b/proxmox-installer-common/src/cli.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
//! Provides a simple command line parsing interface, with special support for
//! (one-level deep) subcommands.
-use std::process;
+use std::{fmt, process::ExitCode};
use anyhow::Result;
@@ -22,41 +22,98 @@ pub trait Subcommand {
fn run(&self) -> Result<()>;
}
+/// Describes a CLI app.
+///
+/// ### Example usage
+/// ```
+/// fn main() -> process::ExitCode {
+/// cli::run(cli::AppInfo {
+/// global_help: "Some CLI app",
+/// on_command: |s, args| match s {
+/// Some("foo") => cli::handle_command::<FooCommand>(args),
+/// Some(s) => Err(cli::Error::UnknownSubcommand(s.to_owned())),
+/// None => Err(cli::Error::SubcommandRequired),
+/// }
+/// })
+/// }
+/// ```
pub struct AppInfo<'a> {
+ /// Global help menu to display if `-h`/`--help` was given without any subcommand or an invalid
+ /// subcommand was specified.
pub global_help: &'a str,
- pub on_command: fn(Option<&str>, &mut Arguments) -> Result<()>,
+ /// Callback to invoke with the subcommand name (if given) and the argument list.
+ ///
+ /// Receives the subcommand name (if one was given on the command line) and the rest of the
+ /// argument list.
+ pub on_command: fn(Option<&str>, &mut Arguments) -> Result<(), Error>,
}
-pub fn run(info: AppInfo) -> process::ExitCode {
- if let Err(err) = parse_args(&info) {
- eprintln!("Error: {err:#}\n\n{}", info.global_help);
- process::ExitCode::FAILURE
- } else {
- process::ExitCode::SUCCESS
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub enum Error {
+ UnknownSubcommand(String),
+ SubcommandRequired,
+ Other(anyhow::Error),
+}
+
+impl std::error::Error for Error {}
+
+impl fmt::Display for Error {
+ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+ match self {
+ Error::UnknownSubcommand(s) => write!(f, "unknown subcommand '{s}'"),
+ Error::SubcommandRequired => write!(f, "subcommand required"),
+ Error::Other(s) => write!(f, "{s}"),
+ }
}
}
-fn parse_args(info: &AppInfo) -> Result<()> {
+/// Retrieves the process command line, checks for a subcommand name and for the default global
+/// flags `-h`/`--help` and `-V`/`--version`.
+///
+/// If no global flag was given, runs the command handler given in [`AppInfo::on_command`].
+pub fn run(info: AppInfo) -> ExitCode {
let mut args = pico_args::Arguments::from_env();
- let subcommand = args.subcommand()?;
+
+ let subcommand = match args.subcommand() {
+ Ok(s) => s,
+ Err(err) => {
+ eprintln!("Error: {err:#}\n\n{}", info.global_help);
+ return ExitCode::FAILURE;
+ }
+ };
if subcommand.is_none() && args.contains(["-h", "--help"]) {
eprintln!("{}", info.global_help);
- Ok(())
+ ExitCode::SUCCESS
} else if args.contains(["-V", "--version"]) {
eprintln!("{} v{}", env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"));
- Ok(())
+ ExitCode::SUCCESS
} else {
- (info.on_command)(subcommand.as_deref(), &mut args)
+ match (info.on_command)(subcommand.as_deref(), &mut args) {
+ Ok(()) => ExitCode::SUCCESS,
+ Err(Error::Other(err)) => {
+ eprintln!("Error: {err:#}");
+ ExitCode::FAILURE
+ }
+ // For non-command errors (i.e. invalid subcommand), also print the help text, in
+ // addition to the error itself.
+ Err(err) => {
+ eprintln!("Error: {err:#}\n\n{}", info.global_help);
+ ExitCode::FAILURE
+ }
+ }
}
}
-pub fn handle_command<T: Subcommand>(args: &mut pico_args::Arguments) -> Result<()> {
+/// Runs a specific subcommand. If the arguments contain -h/--help, the help text of the subcommand
+/// is printed and success is returned.
+pub fn handle_command<T: Subcommand>(args: &mut pico_args::Arguments) -> Result<(), Error> {
if args.contains(["-h", "--help"]) {
T::print_usage();
- } else if let Err(err) = T::parse(args).and_then(|cmd| cmd.run()) {
- eprintln!("Error: {err:#}");
+ return Ok(());
}
- Ok(())
+ T::parse(args)
+ .and_then(|cmd| cmd.run())
+ .map_err(Error::Other)
}
--
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