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cli: sequence cli.Ui operations #6865

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@notnoop notnoop commented Dec 16, 2019

Fixes a bug where if a command flag parsing errors, the resulting error
and help usage messages get interleaved in unexpected and non-user
friendly way.

The reason is that we have flag parsing library effectively writes to
ui.Error in a goroutine. This is problematic: first, we lose the sequencing between help
usage and error message; second, cli.Ui methods are not concurrent safe.

Here, we introduce a custom error writer that buffers result and calls
ui.Error() in the write method and in the same goroutine.

For context, we need to wrap ui.Error because it's line-oriented, while
flags library expects a io.Writer which is bytes oriented.

Fixes #6857

Fixes a bug where if a command flag parsing errors, the resulting error
and help usage messages get interleaved in unexpected and non-user
friendly way.

The reason is that we have flag parsing library effectively writes to
ui.Error in a goroutine.  This is problematic: first, we lose the sequencing between help
usage and error message; second, cli.Ui methods are not concurrent safe.

Here, we introduce a custom error writer that buffers result and calls
ui.Error() in the write method and in the same goroutine.

For context, we need to wrap ui.Error because it's line-oriented, while
flags library expects a io.Writer which is bytes oriented.
@notnoop notnoop force-pushed the b-cli-error-formatting branch from 303fb02 to af2e2bc Compare December 16, 2019 15:08
@notnoop notnoop requested a review from tgross December 16, 2019 15:46
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LGTM

@notnoop notnoop merged commit 8abb4e6 into master Dec 16, 2019
@notnoop notnoop deleted the b-cli-error-formatting branch December 16, 2019 21:06
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cli: inconsistent and incorrect error placement on flag not defined
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