Support for default verb?

[alexreg]

Is there any support for some sort of "default" verb? That is, a verb that gets executed when no verb is actually specified. Perhaps an existing verb can be marked as default, even?

[alexreg]

Furthermore, is it possible to have global options while still having a verb?

[nemec]

This is a duplicate of #490. Unfortunately, no it isn't possible. With the way verbs work in the current version (e.g. Parse<VerbA, VerbB>(args)) I'm having a hard time thinking of a way to add a default verb and global options.

[alexreg]

Thanks for the quick reply, @nemec. What about a simple IsDefault property of the Verb attribute. The name of the verb should also be optional in this case. As for global options, what about a special Options generic argument that inherits from a (dummy) GlobalOptions class, or something similar?

Update: Actually, quite a nice solution that already works is simply inheriting from a GlobalOptions class!

[alexreg]

I'm currently trying to come up with a workaround for this, but I can't get the NoVerbSelectedError, nor the BadVerbSelectedError. It just runs my (one and only) options handler instead. Using the latest beta here. Any known issue with that right now?

[alexreg]

Update: it seems I have to specify at least two options types to ParseArguments for these errors to kick in! I see why, though perhaps this should be documented.

[nemec]

You're right - it is not obvious that one generic argument is interpreted as an Options class but multiple are considered Verbs.

[TheFanatr]

Just to clarify, is there a workaround by using GlobalOptions?