Add subjects that actions can be performed on

[philippgille]

As I understand the documentation, with PowerArgs you can currently implement these two kinds of CLI:

• myApp -some "arg"
• myApp someAction -some "arg"

But some CLIs have another "level", which is subjects. For example the Docker CLI:

• docker container ls -a
• docker image ls -a
• docker container run --name some-redis -d redis

Where docker is the application, container / image the subject and ls / run etc. the action, with actions belonging to the subject and with arguments only applying to the specific action.

Is this possible with PowerArgs? If not, I think this might be a powerful addition for complex CLIs.

[adamabdelhamed]

Yes you can. See the calculator example on the main readme of the project.

[philippgille]

The usage example for the calculator example is Calculator.exe add -Value1 1 -Value2 5, which is app action -param, not app subject action -param. Or did I misunderstand the example?