FR: option to print the output of --help-all in json format
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Description
I'm playing with an R package that permits supplying the runtime args as a nested list, thereby making things flexible to future possible changes in what cmdstan accepts. To validate this user input (and also to show the user what's allowed), it would be useful to have the output of --help-all in an easily-parsed format like json. Or maybe there's already an easily-parsed way to get the output already that I'm missing?
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Research direction
Start by running the --help-all CLI entry point and tracing where its output is assembled. Done means an option produces the allowed arguments in a machine-parseable JSON representation suitable for validating the nested runtime arguments described in the issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, json
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100