UI5 / UI5/cli

Support for custom CLI parameters

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When I need to run e.g. ui5 serve with different configurations, I am currently forced to create multiple ui5*.yaml files. In some cases, I need exactly the same configuration except one value is different. The overhead of maintaining multiple files for that is increasing the costs of maintaining a UI5 project.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow the usage of custom CLI parameters that are accessible in my middleware/task e.g. I would like to call ui5 serve --debug --magic 42 and in my middleware I have access to e.g. this global configuration as e.g. object

{
  debug: true
  magic: '42'
}

Describe alternatives you've considered

I could also solve the same problem, if it would also be possible to provide the configuration not as yaml but as js file. Then, I have all the flexibility needed to create inheritance between configs or custom creation of the config based on other parameters.

Additional context

No

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Research direction

Start with the ui5 serve command and trace how middleware and tasks receive configuration. Define how custom parameters such as --debug and --magic 42 should be exposed, then verify that the same configuration can be consumed without maintaining multiple ui5 YAML files.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cli, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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