How does one mark a flag a dependency of another flag

[vague2k]

Here's an example, assume you have some output where an item is printed and the item has more info that you would like to show when the proper flags are present.

> myCli print item1 --createdAt
> item1 was created at 3:00:00 PM

In this example a flag called createdAt can be used to show the timestamp of when the item was created. But what if you wanted to show a specific format for that timestamp... you could do something like...

> myCli print item1 --createdAt --24H
> item1 was created at 15:00:00 PM

Is there a way that to make it such that (referring to this example) --24H depends on --createdAt ?

I've dug a bit to see if anyone had a similar question or solution but couldn't find anything note worthy.

If there is a solution and it seems too hacky or janky, I also think it would be cool have a utility method such as cmd.MarkFlagsAsDependent() if it's worth writing

[marckhouzam]

I think you are looking for flag groups: https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/main/site/content/user_guide.md#flag-groups

[vague2k]

I think you are looking for flag groups: https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/main/site/content/user_guide.md#flag-groups

the difference between the builtin flag groups and what im describing is that (referring again to my example) if you use --24H you ARE REQUIRED to include --createdAt but if you use --createdAt by itself you ARE NOT REQUIRED to include --24H.

I guess you to give it a name i'd call what i'm describing as a one-way MarkFlagsRequiredTogether