7. Use Typer for CLI parsing¶

Date: 2024-05-10

Status¶

Accepted

Context¶

Type safety is important to maintainability and correctness of code, especially in systems that accept arbitrary user input. Command-line arguments and options in most CLI frameworks can be annotated with type hints, but many frameworks require specifying information about the CLI arguments and the handler function arguments in a redundant way. Typer is a library that uses Python type hints to generate a CLI parser, reducing the amount of boilerplate code needed to create a CLI.

Decision¶

Use Typer for CLI parsing in the project.

Consequences¶

Developers can use type hints to specify the types of CLI arguments and options.
repo-man can be composed into other Typer-based applications.