Hello, I would like to build a command-line tool w...

# multiplatform

[jmfayard]

Hello, I would like to build a command-line tool with #kotlin-native (should I post there?)
This would be a first time for me so any pointers would be appreciated.
It would be something relatively simple and I need a command-line options parser, a way to parse JSON and do basic HTTP calls but that’s pretty much it.

[jmfayard]

I think I have everything I need.
+1 for people writing all that documentation

I found http client
https://ktor.io/clients/http-client/multiplatform.html

I found kotlinx.serialization
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization

I found the MPP+Gradle documentation
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/building-mpp-with-gradle.html

I found https://play.kotlinlang.org/hands-on/Introduction%20to%20Kotlin%20Multiplatform/01_Introduction

[olonho]

CLI library will be available out of the box in 1.3.60

[jmfayard]

@olonho Thanks for the info.
What about generating Zsh and Bash completions?
This is what makes all the difference between a very sleak command line tool like twilio-cli and unusable ones like most of the others
https://www.twilio.com/docs/twilio-cli/quickstart
Is that out of scope for you?

[gildor]

clikt has autocompletion generation:
https://ajalt.github.io/clikt/

But Kotlin Native support is not released yet, but there is a branch