support multiple options

[asquelt]

in https://github.com/duritong/trocla/blob/master/bin/trocla#L106 remaining ARGV is taken as :other_options but when module is called only 1st element is taken with shift.

there is apparently no way to provide more than 1 option to module (and ie. for x509 module i need plenty).

i've changed it to

options[:other_options] = [ ARGV.join("\n") ]

which works, but it's ugly, so i'm not pulling it.

[duritong]

Sorry for not coming back earlier.

The idea of the last argument, is that you can specify a simple yaml parseable string, which is then expanded before handing over to trocla-core.

See https://github.com/duritong/trocla/blob/master/bin/trocla#L45

Primarly we need that to be able to pass any kind of structured data to formats, without having to let trocla-core know about the requirements for that format.

See the last part of https://github.com/duritong/trocla#create as an example or the following idea:

$ ruby -ryaml -e 'puts YAML.load(ARGV[0]).inspect' "{ a: 1, b: 2}"
{"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

so for trocla:

$ trocla create my_cert x509pub '{ alt_name: myhost }'

As a rough example.

Would this format fit for you? Do you have a better idea to still keep the flexibility? Also note that the second argument to the def format(plain_password,options={}) is always a hash, which can be filled with additional information for that format.

I would be very interested in more formats (especially a x509 one!), so if you think that this is feasible or do you see a nice solution for the issue.

Don't hesitate to post here further, I will be able to address your questions much faster now.

[asquelt]

that seems to do the trick. i've missed curly brackets trick to inline yaml.

[duritong]

Only for one-item hashes this works without brackets:

$ ruby -ryaml -e 'puts YAML.load(ARGV[0]).inspect' 'user: a'
{"user"=>"a"}

So I'm happy to close the issue and looking forward to your x509 format pull request! :-)