feat: collect workflow inputs via command line #597
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Goal
Workflows should allow inputs to be passed via flags and not just JSON. Ex.
Challenges
Clap doesn't really like this, since it mostly expects flags to be defined before parsing.
There are some workarounds in clap-rs/clap#1404, but two notable problems:
apply
(Command apply: Argument 'paths' has the same index as 'inputs' and they are both positional arguments\n\n\t Use
Arg::num_args(1..)to allow one positional argument to take multiple values
)Alternative