StoneFruit
StoneFruit is a commandlet host and execution engine. It allows you to rapidly develop new command-line utility routines without having to create a new application for each one. StoneFruit is designed from the ground-up to be configurable, pluggable, flexible, and to easily integrate with your existing code. It integrates with DI to allow deep customization and injection of all your business types.
Quick Example: Git
Git is a powerful development tool but typing “git” by itself at the prompt doesn’t do much. To access the varied functionality of git, you must specify a verb like “git clone”, “git add” or “git remote add”. Each different verb causes the application to do different tasks, often with completely separate sets of input arguments and program output. This is what StoneFruit is: It allows you to create a program with many verbs, each of which can do something different and useful.
Basic Terminology
A Verb is the name of an action which the user types at the command-line, which may have arguments and output effects. Verbs in StoneFruit may be one or several words.
A Handler is a class or delegate which is invoked by StoneFruit in response to an input verb.
A Command is a combination of a Verb and all input arguments.
Headless is a mode where the StoneFruit application executes one or more commands without user input.
Interactive is a mode where the StoneFruit application displays an interactive prompt where commands can be input one after the other.
Quick Start
To get started, we need to create a StoneFruitApplicationBuilder, configure it, and build a StoneFruitApplication. To get started immediately with default options:
var stonefruit = StoneFruitApplicationBuilder.BuildDefault();
stonefruit.RunWithCommandLineArguments();
To have more control over your setup and access advanced features:
var builder = StoneFruitApplicationBuilder.Create();
... configure builder here ...
var stonefruit = builder.Build();
stonefruit.RunWithCommandLineArguments();