Open stoggi opened 4 years ago
After a little more digging, it seems this is because I'm asking the same questions multiple times!
This code is not affected:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2"
)
type Answers struct {
Name string
Age int
Hobbies string
}
var questions1 = []*survey.Question{
{
Name: "Name",
Prompt: &survey.Input{Message: "What's your name?"},
Validate: survey.Required,
},
{
Name: "Age",
Prompt: &survey.Input{Message: "How old are you?"},
Validate: survey.Required,
},
{
Name: "Hobbies",
Prompt: &survey.Input{Message: "What are your hobbies?"},
Validate: survey.Required,
},
}
var questions2 = []*survey.Question{
{
Name: "Name",
Prompt: &survey.Input{Message: "What's your name?"},
Validate: survey.Required,
},
{
Name: "Age",
Prompt: &survey.Input{Message: "How old are you?"},
Validate: survey.Required,
},
{
Name: "Hobbies",
Prompt: &survey.Input{Message: "What are your hobbies?"},
Validate: survey.Required,
},
}
func main() {
a1 := Answers{}
if err := survey.Ask(questions1, &a1); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
a2 := Answers{}
if err := survey.Ask(questions2, &a2); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(a1, a2)
}
This feels like some internal state is not being cleared.
@stoggi Excellent sleuthing! It looks like some state is being remembered between these prompts that results in extra lines of output being overwritten.
I had the same problem.
When asking multiple surveys but with the same question, the output is corrupted for the second survey. The cursor begins on the same line, and overwrites the previous question each time.
Environments Tested
OS: MacOS, Linux Terminal: iTerm2, xfce4-terminal Shell: bash, zsh, elvish Versions:
Example
Observed output:
What was I expecting to see?
The second survey should appear like the first, instead newlines seem to get lost, and it overwrites the same line for each question.