exec

Documentation

Overview

Package exec provides an injectable interface and implementations for running commands.

Index

• type Cmd
• type ExitError
• type Interface
  • func New() Interface

Types

type Cmd

type Cmd interface {
	// CombinedOutput runs the command and returns its combined standard output
	// and standard error.  This follows the pattern of package os/exec.
	CombinedOutput() ([]byte, error)
}

Cmd is an interface that presents an API that is very similar to Cmd from os/exec. As more functionality is needed, this can grow. Since Cmd is a struct, we will have to replace fields with get/set method pairs.

type ExitError

type ExitError interface {
	String() string
	Error() string
	Exited() bool
	ExitStatus() int
}

ExitError is an interface that presents an API similar to os.ProcessState, which is what ExitError from os/exec is. This is designed to make testing a bit easier and probably loses some of the cross-platform properties of the underlying library.

type Interface

type Interface interface {
	// Command returns a Cmd instance which can be used to run a single command.
	// This follows the pattern of package os/exec.
	Command(cmd string, args ...string) Cmd
}

Interface is an interface that presents a subset of the os/exec API. Use this when you want to inject fakeable/mockable exec behavior.

func New

func New() Interface

New returns a new Interface which will os/exec to run commands.