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Survey

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A library for building interactive prompts.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2"
)

// the questions to ask
var qs = []*survey.Question{
    {
        Name:     "name",
        Prompt:   &survey.Input{Message: "What is your name?"},
        Validate: survey.Required,
        Transform: survey.Title,
    },
    {
        Name: "color",
        Prompt: &survey.Select{
            Message: "Choose a color:",
            Options: []string{"red", "blue", "green"},
            Default: "red",
        },
    },
    {
        Name: "age",
        Prompt:   &survey.Input{Message: "How old are you?"},
    },
}

func main() {
    // the answers will be written to this struct
    answers := struct {
        Name          string                  // survey will match the question and field names
        FavoriteColor string `survey:"color"` // or you can tag fields to match a specific name
        Age           int                     // if the types don't match, survey will convert it
    }{}

    // perform the questions
    err := survey.Ask(qs, &answers)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err.Error())
        return
    }

    fmt.Printf("%s chose %s.", answers.Name, answers.FavoriteColor)
}

Table of Contents

  1. Examples
  2. Running the Prompts
  3. Prompts
    1. Input
    2. Multiline
    3. Password
    4. Confirm
    5. Select
    6. MultiSelect
    7. Editor
  4. Filtering Options
  5. Validation
    1. Built-in Validators
  6. Help Text
    1. Changing the input rune
  7. Changing the Icons
  8. Custom Types
  9. Testing

Examples

Examples can be found in the examples/ directory. Run them to see basic behavior:

go get github.com/AlecAivazis/survey

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/AlecAivazis/survey

go run examples/simple.go
go run examples/validation.go

Running the Prompts

There are two primary ways to execute prompts and start collecting information from your users: Ask and AskOne. The primary difference is whether you are interested in collecting a single piece of information or if you have a list of questions to ask whose answers should be collected in a single struct. For most basic usecases, Ask should be enough. However, for surveys with complicated branching logic, we recommend that you break out your questions into multiple calls to both of these functions to fit your needs.

Configuring the Prompts

Most prompts take fine-grained configuration through fields on the structs you instantiate. It is also possible to change survey's default behaviors by passing AskOpts to either Ask or AskOne. Examples in this document will do both interchangeably:

prompt := &Select{
    Message: "Choose a color:",
    Options: []string{"red", "blue", "green"},
    // can pass a validator directly
    Validate: survey.Required,
}

// or define a default for the single call to `AskOne`
// the answer will get written to the color variable
survey.AskOne(prompt, &color, survey.WithValidator(survey.Required))

// or define a default for every entry in a list of questions
// the answer will get copied into the matching field of the struct as shown above
survey.Ask(questions, &answers, survey.WithValidator(survey.Required))

Prompts

Input
name := ""
prompt := &survey.Input{
    Message: "ping",
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &name)
Multiline
text := ""
prompt := &survey.Multiline{
    Message: "ping",
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &text)
Password
password := ""
prompt := &survey.Password{
    Message: "Please type your password",
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &password)
Confirm
name := false
prompt := &survey.Confirm{
    Message: "Do you like pie?",
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &name)
Select
color := ""
prompt := &survey.Select{
    Message: "Choose a color:",
    Options: []string{"red", "blue", "green"},
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &color)

Fields and values that come from a Select prompt can be one of two different things. If you pass an int the field will have the value of the selected index. If you instead pass a string, the string value selected will be written to the field.

The user can also press esc to toggle the ability cycle through the options with the j and k keys to do down and up respectively.

By default, the select prompt is limited to showing 7 options at a time and will paginate lists of options longer than that. This can be changed a number of ways:

// as a field on a single select
prompt := &survey.MultiSelect{..., PageSize: 10}

// or as an option to Ask or AskOne
survey.AskOne(prompt, &days, survey.WithPageSize(10))
MultiSelect
days := []string{}
prompt := &survey.MultiSelect{
    Message: "What days do you prefer:",
    Options: []string{"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"},
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &days)

Fields and values that come from a MultiSelect prompt can be one of two different things. If you pass an int the field will have a slice of the selected indices. If you instead pass a string, a slice of the string values selected will be written to the field.

The user can also press esc to toggle the ability cycle through the options with the j and k keys to do down and up respectively.

By default, the MultiSelect prompt is limited to showing 7 options at a time and will paginate lists of options longer than that. This can be changed a number of ways:

// as a field on a single select
prompt := &survey.MultiSelect{..., PageSize: 10}

// or as an option to Ask or AskOne
survey.AskOne(prompt, &days, survey.WithPageSize(10))
Editor

Launches the user's preferred editor (defined by the $VISUAL or $EDITOR environment variables) on a temporary file. Once the user exits their editor, the contents of the temporary file are read in as the result. If neither of those are present, notepad (on Windows) or vim (Linux or Mac) is used.

You can also specify a pattern for the name of the temporary file. This can be useful for ensuring syntax highlighting matches your usecase.

prompt := &survey.Editor{
    Message: "Shell code snippet",
    FileName: "*.sh",
}

survey.AskOne(prompt, &content)

Filtering Options

By default, the user can filter for options in Select and MultiSelects by typing while the prompt is active. This will filter out all options that don't contain the typed string anywhere in their name, ignoring case.

A custom filter function can also be provided to change this behavior:

func myFilter(filterValue string, optValue string, optIndex int) include bool {
    // only include the option if it includes the filter and has length greater than 5
    return strings.Contains(optValue, filterValue) && len(optValue) >= 5
}

// configure it for a specific prompt
&Select{
    Message: "Choose a color:",
    Options: []string{"red", "blue", "green"},
    Filter: myFilter,
}

// or define a default for all of the questions
survey.AskOne(prompt, &color, survey.WithFilter(myFilter))

Validation

Validating individual responses for a particular question can be done by defining a Validate field on the survey.Question to be validated. This function takes an interface{} type and returns an error to show to the user, prompting them for another response. Like usual, validators can be provided directly to the prompt or with survey.WithValidator:

q := &survey.Question{
    Prompt: &survey.Input{Message: "Hello world validation"},
    Validate: func (val interface{}) error {
        // since we are validating an Input, the assertion will always succeed
        if str, ok := val.(string) ; !ok || len(str) > 10 {
            return errors.New("This response cannot be longer than 10 characters.")
        }
	return nil
    },
}

color := ""
prompt := &survey.Input{ Message: "Whats your name?" }

// you can pass multiple validators here and survey will make sure each one passes
survey.AskOne(prompt, &color, survey.WithValidator(survey.Required))
Built-in Validators

survey comes prepackaged with a few validators to fit common situations. Currently these validators include:

name valid types description notes
Required any Rejects zero values of the response type Boolean values pass straight through since the zero value (false) is a valid response
MinLength(n) string Enforces that a response is at least the given length
MaxLength(n) string Enforces that a response is no longer than the given length

Help Text

All of the prompts have a Help field which can be defined to provide more information to your users:

&survey.Input{
    Message: "What is your phone number:",
    Help:    "Phone number should include the area code",
}
Changing the input rune

In some situations, ? is a perfectly valid response. To handle this, you can change the rune that survey looks for with WithHelpInput:

import (
    "github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2"
)

number := ""
prompt := &survey.Input{
    Message: "If you have this need, please give me a reasonable message.",
    Help:    "I couldn't come up with one.",
}

survey.AskOne(prompt, &number, survey.WithHelpInput('^'))

Changing the Icons

Changing the icons and their color/format can be done by passing the WithIcons option. The format follows the patterns outlined here. For example:

import (
    "github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2"
)

number := ""
prompt := &survey.Input{
    Message: "If you have this need, please give me a reasonable message.",
    Help:    "I couldn't come up with one.",
}

survey.AskOne(prompt, &number, survey.WithIcons(function(icons *survey.IconSet) {
    // you can set any icons
    icons.Question.Text = "⁇"
    // for more information on formatting the icons, see here: https://github.com/mgutz/ansi#style-format
    icons.Question.Format = "yellow+hb"
}))

The icons and their default text and format are summarized below:

name text format description
Error X red Before an error
Help i cyan Before help text
Question ? green+hb Before the message of a prompt
SelectFocus > green Marks the current focus in Select and MultiSelect prompts
UnmarkedOption [ ] default+hb Marks an unselected option in a MultiSelect prompt
MarkedOption [x] cyan+b Marks a chosen selection in a MultiSelect prompt

Custom Types

survey will assign prompt answers to your custom types if they implement this interface:

type Settable interface {
    WriteAnswer(field string, value interface{}) error
}

Here is an example how to use them:

type MyValue struct {
    value string
}
func (my *MyValue) WriteAnswer(name string, value interface{}) error {
     my.value = value.(string)
}

myval := MyValue{}
survey.AskOne(
    &survey.Input{
        Message: "Enter something:",
    },
    &myval
)

Testing

You can test your program's interactive prompts using go-expect. The library can be used to expect a match on stdout and respond on stdin. Since os.Stdout in a go test process is not a TTY, if you are manipulating the cursor or using survey, you will need a way to interpret terminal / ANSI escape sequences for things like CursorLocation. vt10x.NewVT10XConsole will create a go-expect console that also multiplexes stdio to an in-memory virtual terminal.

For some examples, you can see any of the tests in this repo.

Documentation

Index

Constants

This section is empty.

Variables

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var ConfirmQuestionTemplate = `` /* 571-byte string literal not displayed */

Templates with Color formatting. See Documentation: https://github.com/mgutz/ansi#style-format

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var EditorQuestionTemplate = `` /* 656-byte string literal not displayed */

Templates with Color formatting. See Documentation: https://github.com/mgutz/ansi#style-format

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var ErrorTemplate = `{{color .Icon.Format }}{{ .Icon.Text }} Sorry, your reply was invalid: {{ .Error.Error }}{{color "reset"}}
`
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var InputQuestionTemplate = `` /* 576-byte string literal not displayed */

Templates with Color formatting. See Documentation: https://github.com/mgutz/ansi#style-format

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var MultiSelectQuestionTemplate = `` /* 1082-byte string literal not displayed */
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var MultilineQuestionTemplate = `` /* 566-byte string literal not displayed */

Templates with Color formatting. See Documentation: https://github.com/mgutz/ansi#style-format

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var PasswordQuestionTemplate = `` /* 392-byte string literal not displayed */

PasswordQuestionTemplate is a template with color formatting. See Documentation: https://github.com/mgutz/ansi#style-format

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var SelectQuestionTemplate = `` /* 859-byte string literal not displayed */

Functions

func Ask 

func Ask(qs []*Question, response interface{}, opts ...AskOpt) error

Ask performs the prompt loop, asking for validation when appropriate. The response type can be one of two options. If a struct is passed, the answer will be written to the field whose name matches the Name field on the corresponding question. Field types should be something that can be casted from the response type designated in the documentation. Note, a survey tag can also be used to identify a Otherwise, a map[string]interface{} can be passed, responses will be written to the key with the matching name. For example: 

qs := []*survey.Question{
	{
		Name:     "name",
		Prompt:   &survey.Input{Message: "What is your name?"},
		Validate: survey.Required,
		Transform: survey.Title,
	},
}

answers := struct{ Name string }{}

err := survey.Ask(qs, &answers)

func AskOne 

func AskOne(p Prompt, response interface{}, opts ...AskOpt) error

AskOne performs the prompt for a single prompt and asks for validation if required. Response types should be something that can be casted from the response type designated in the documentation. For example: 

name := ""
prompt := &survey.Input{
	Message: "name",
}

survey.AskOne(prompt, &name)

func Required 

func Required(val interface{}) error

Required does not allow an empty value

func Title 

func Title(ans interface{}) interface{}

Title is a `Transformer`. It receives an answer value and returns a copy of the "ans" with all Unicode letters that begin words mapped to their title case.

Note that if "ans" is not a string then it will return a nil value, meaning that the above answer will not be affected by this call at all.

func ToLower 

func ToLower(ans interface{}) interface{}

ToLower is a `Transformer`. It receives an answer value and returns a copy of the "ans" with all Unicode letters mapped to their lower case.

Note that if "ans" is not a string then it will return a nil value, meaning that the above answer will not be affected by this call at all.

Types

type AskOpt 

type AskOpt func(options *AskOptions) error

AskOpt allows setting optional ask options.

func WithFilter 

func WithFilter(filter func(filter string, value string, index int) (include bool)) AskOpt

WithFilter specifies the default filter to use when asking questions.

func WithHelpInput 

func WithHelpInput(r rune) AskOpt

WithHelpInput changes the character that prompts look for to give the user helpful information.

func WithIcons 

func WithIcons(setIcons func(*IconSet)) AskOpt

WithIcons sets the icons that will be used when prompting the user

func WithPageSize 

func WithPageSize(pageSize int) AskOpt

WithPageSize sets the default page size used by prompts

func WithStdio 

func WithStdio(in terminal.FileReader, out terminal.FileWriter, err io.Writer) AskOpt

WithStdio specifies the standard input, output and error files survey interacts with. By default, these are os.Stdin, os.Stdout, and os.Stderr.

func WithValidator 

func WithValidator(v Validator) AskOpt

WithValidator specifies a validator to use while prompting the user

type AskOptions 

type AskOptions struct {
	Stdio        terminal.Stdio
	Validators   []Validator
	PromptConfig PromptConfig
}

AskOptions provides additional options on ask.

type Confirm 

type Confirm struct {
	Renderer
	Message string
	Default bool
	Help    string
}

Confirm is a regular text input that accept yes/no answers. Response type is a bool.

func (*Confirm) Cleanup 

func (c *Confirm) Cleanup(config *PromptConfig, val interface{}) error

Cleanup overwrite the line with the finalized formatted version

func (*Confirm) Prompt 

func (c *Confirm) Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (interface{}, error)

Prompt prompts the user with a simple text field and expects a reply followed by a carriage return. 

likesPie := false
prompt := &survey.Confirm{ Message: "What is your name?" }
survey.AskOne(prompt, &likesPie)

type ConfirmTemplateData 

type ConfirmTemplateData struct {
	Confirm
	Answer   string
	ShowHelp bool
	Config   *PromptConfig
}

data available to the templates when processing

type Editor 

type Editor struct {
	Renderer
	Message       string
	Default       string
	Help          string
	Editor        string
	HideDefault   bool
	AppendDefault bool
	FileName      string
}

Editor launches an instance of the users preferred editor on a temporary file. The editor to use is determined by reading the $VISUAL or $EDITOR environment variables. If neither of those are present, notepad (on Windows) or vim (others) is used. The launch of the editor is triggered by the enter key. Since the response may be long, it will not be echoed as Input does, instead, it print <Received>. Response type is a string. 

message := ""
prompt := &survey.Editor{ Message: "What is your commit message?" }
survey.AskOne(prompt, &message)

func (*Editor) Cleanup 

func (e *Editor) Cleanup(config *PromptConfig, val interface{}) error

func (*Editor) Prompt 

func (e *Editor) Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (interface{}, error)

func (*Editor) PromptAgain 

func (e *Editor) PromptAgain(config *PromptConfig, invalid interface{}, err error) (interface{}, error)

type EditorTemplateData 

type EditorTemplateData struct {
	Editor
	Answer     string
	ShowAnswer bool
	ShowHelp   bool
	Config     *PromptConfig
}

data available to the templates when processing

type ErrorTemplateData 

type ErrorTemplateData struct {
	Error error
	Icon  Icon
}

type Icon 

type Icon struct {
	Text   string
	Format string
}

Icon holds the text and format to show for a particular icon

type IconSet 

type IconSet struct {
	HelpInput      Icon
	Error          Icon
	Help           Icon
	Question       Icon
	MarkedOption   Icon
	UnmarkedOption Icon
	SelectFocus    Icon
}

IconSet holds the icons to use for various prompts

type Input 

type Input struct {
	Renderer
	Message string
	Default string
	Help    string
}

Input is a regular text input that prints each character the user types on the screen and accepts the input with the enter key. Response type is a string. 

name := ""
prompt := &survey.Input{ Message: "What is your name?" }
survey.AskOne(prompt, &name)

func (*Input) Cleanup 

func (i *Input) Cleanup(config *PromptConfig, val interface{}) error

func (*Input) Prompt 

func (i *Input) Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (interface{}, error)

type InputTemplateData 

type InputTemplateData struct {
	Input
	Answer     string
	ShowAnswer bool
	ShowHelp   bool
	Config     *PromptConfig
}

data available to the templates when processing

type MultiSelect 

type MultiSelect struct {
	Renderer
	Message       string
	Options       []string
	Default       interface{}
	Help          string
	PageSize      int
	VimMode       bool
	FilterMessage string
	Filter        func(filter string, value string, index int) bool
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

MultiSelect is a prompt that presents a list of various options to the user for them to select using the arrow keys and enter. Response type is a slice of strings. 

days := []string{}
prompt := &survey.MultiSelect{
	Message: "What days do you prefer:",
	Options: []string{"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"},
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &days)

func (*MultiSelect) Cleanup 

func (m *MultiSelect) Cleanup(config *PromptConfig, val interface{}) error

Cleanup removes the options section, and renders the ask like a normal question.

func (*MultiSelect) OnChange 

func (m *MultiSelect) OnChange(key rune, config *PromptConfig)

OnChange is called on every keypress.

func (*MultiSelect) Prompt 

func (m *MultiSelect) Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (interface{}, error)

type MultiSelectTemplateData 

type MultiSelectTemplateData struct {
	MultiSelect
	Answer        string
	ShowAnswer    bool
	Checked       map[int]bool
	SelectedIndex int
	ShowHelp      bool
	PageEntries   []core.OptionAnswer
	Config        *PromptConfig
}

data available to the templates when processing

type Multiline 

type Multiline struct {
	Renderer
	Message string
	Default string
	Help    string
}

func (*Multiline) Cleanup 

func (i *Multiline) Cleanup(config *PromptConfig, val interface{}) error

func (*Multiline) Prompt 

func (i *Multiline) Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (interface{}, error)

type MultilineTemplateData 

type MultilineTemplateData struct {
	Multiline
	Answer     string
	ShowAnswer bool
	ShowHelp   bool
	Config     *PromptConfig
}

data available to the templates when processing

type OptionAnswer 

type OptionAnswer = core.OptionAnswer

OptionAnswer is an ergonomic alias for core.OptionAnswer

type Password 

type Password struct {
	Renderer
	Message string
	Help    string
}

Password is like a normal Input but the text shows up as *'s and there is no default. Response type is a string. 

password := ""
prompt := &survey.Password{ Message: "Please type your password" }
survey.AskOne(prompt, &password)

func (*Password) Cleanup 

func (prompt *Password) Cleanup(config *PromptConfig, val interface{}) error

Cleanup hides the string with a fixed number of characters.

func (*Password) Prompt 

func (p *Password) Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (line interface{}, err error)

type PasswordTemplateData 

type PasswordTemplateData struct {
	Password
	ShowHelp bool
	Config   *PromptConfig
}

type Prompt 

type Prompt interface {
	Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (interface{}, error)
	Cleanup(*PromptConfig, interface{}) error
	Error(*PromptConfig, error) error
}

Prompt is the primary interface for the objects that can take user input and return a response.

type PromptAgainer 

type PromptAgainer interface {
	PromptAgain(config *PromptConfig, invalid interface{}, err error) (interface{}, error)
}

PromptAgainer Interface for Prompts that support prompting again after invalid input

type PromptConfig 

type PromptConfig struct {
	PageSize  int
	Icons     IconSet
	HelpInput string
	Filter    func(filter string, option string, index int) bool
}

PromptConfig holds the global configuration for a prompt

type Question 

type Question struct {
	Name      string
	Prompt    Prompt
	Validate  Validator
	Transform Transformer
}

Question is the core data structure for a survey questionnaire.

type Renderer 

type Renderer struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

func (*Renderer) Error 

func (r *Renderer) Error(config *PromptConfig, invalid error) error

func (*Renderer) NewCursor 

func (r *Renderer) NewCursor() *terminal.Cursor

func (*Renderer) NewRuneReader 

func (r *Renderer) NewRuneReader() *terminal.RuneReader

func (*Renderer) Render 

func (r *Renderer) Render(tmpl string, data interface{}) error

func (*Renderer) Stdio 

func (r *Renderer) Stdio() terminal.Stdio

func (*Renderer) WithStdio 

func (r *Renderer) WithStdio(stdio terminal.Stdio)

type Select 

type Select struct {
	Renderer
	Message       string
	Options       []string
	Default       interface{}
	Help          string
	PageSize      int
	VimMode       bool
	FilterMessage string
	Filter        func(filter string, value string, index int) bool
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Select is a prompt that presents a list of various options to the user for them to select using the arrow keys and enter. Response type is a string. 

color := ""
prompt := &survey.Select{
	Message: "Choose a color:",
	Options: []string{"red", "blue", "green"},
}
survey.AskOne(prompt, &color)

func (*Select) Cleanup 

func (s *Select) Cleanup(config *PromptConfig, val interface{}) error

func (*Select) OnChange 

func (s *Select) OnChange(key rune, config *PromptConfig) bool

OnChange is called on every keypress.

func (*Select) Prompt 

func (s *Select) Prompt(config *PromptConfig) (interface{}, error)

type SelectTemplateData 

type SelectTemplateData struct {
	Select
	PageEntries   []core.OptionAnswer
	SelectedIndex int
	Answer        string
	ShowAnswer    bool
	ShowHelp      bool
	Config        *PromptConfig
}

SelectTemplateData is the data available to the templates when processing

type Transformer 

type Transformer func(ans interface{}) (newAns interface{})

Transformer is a function passed to a Question after a user has provided a response. The function can be used to implement a custom logic that will result to return a different representation of the given answer.

Look `TransformString`, `ToLower` `Title` and `ComposeTransformers` for more.

func ComposeTransformers 

func ComposeTransformers(transformers ...Transformer) Transformer

ComposeTransformers is a variadic function used to create one transformer from many.

func TransformString 

func TransformString(f func(s string) string) Transformer

TransformString returns a `Transformer` based on the "f" function which accepts a string representation of the answer and returns a new one, transformed, answer. Take for example the functions inside the std `strings` package, they can be converted to a compatible `Transformer` by using this function, i.e: `TransformString(strings.Title)`, `TransformString(strings.ToUpper)`.

Note that `TransformString` is just a helper, `Transformer` can be used to transform any type of answer.

type Validator 

type Validator func(ans interface{}) error

Validator is a function passed to a Question after a user has provided a response. If the function returns an error, then the user will be prompted again for another response.

func ComposeValidators 

func ComposeValidators(validators ...Validator) Validator

ComposeValidators is a variadic function used to create one validator from many.

func MaxLength 

func MaxLength(length int) Validator

MaxLength requires that the string is no longer than the specified value

func MinLength 

func MinLength(length int) Validator

MinLength requires that the string is longer or equal in length to the specified value

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