gocliselect

Golang CLI Select

Lightweight interactive CLI selection library

Import the package

import "github.com/nexidian/gocliselect"

Usage

Create a new menu, supplying the question as a parameter

menu := gocliselect.NewMenu("Chose a colour")

Add any number of options by calling AddItem() supplying the display text of the option as well as the id

menu.AddItem("Red", "red")
menu.AddItem("Blue", "blue")
menu.AddItem("Green", "green")
menu.AddHint("Extra colours:")
menu.AddItem("Yellow", "yellow")
menu.AddItem("Cyan", "cyan")

To display the menu and away the user choice call Display()

choice := menu.Display()

Example

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/nexidian/gocliselect"
)

func main() {
    menu := gocliselect.NewMenu("Chose a colour")

    menu.AddItem("Red", "red")
    menu.AddItem("Blue", "blue")
    menu.AddItem("Green", "green")
    menu.AddHint("Extra colours:")
    menu.AddItem("Yellow", "yellow")
    menu.AddItem("Cyan", "cyan")

    choice := menu.Display()

    fmt.Printf("Choice: %s\n", choice)
}