fix: properly handle CLI arguments (#2368)

Fix CLI arguments not being respected. This happened due to the addition of category-based logging (--help, --version) and changes to the window loading ( --channels), respectively.

When handling --channels, I took the liberty to refactor the previous version of window description (which relied on generating JSON) to directly building the WindowLayout.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 - Minor: Made the current channels emotes appear at the top of the emote picker popup. (#2057)
 - Minor: Added viewer list button to twitch channel header. (#1978)
 - Minor: Added followage and subage information to usercard. (#2023)
-- Minor: Added an option to only open channels specified in command line with `-c` parameter. You can also use `--help` to display short help message (#1940)
+- Minor: Added an option to only open channels specified in command line with `-c` parameter. You can also use `--help` to display short help message (#1940, #2368)
 - Minor: Added customizable timeout buttons to the user info popup
 - Minor: Deprecate loading of "v1" window layouts. If you haven't updated Chatterino in more than 2 years, there's a chance you will lose your window layout.
 - Minor: User popup will now automatically display messages as they are received
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
 - Bugfix: Fix a crash bug that occurred when moving splits across windows and closing the "parent tab" (#2249, #2259)
 - Bugfix: Fix a crash bug that occurred when the "Limit message height" setting was enabled and a message was being split up into multiple lines. IRC only. (#2329)
 - Bugfix: Fix anonymous users being pinged by "username" justinfan64537 (#2156, #2352)
+- Bugfix: Fix CLI arguments (`--help`, `--version`, `--channels`) not being respected (#2368, #2190)
 - Dev: Updated minimum required Qt framework version to 5.12. (#2210)
 - Dev: Migrated `Kraken::getUser` to Helix (#2260)
 - Dev: Migrated `TwitchAccount::(un)followUser` from Kraken to Helix and moved it to `Helix::(un)followUser`. (#2306)

src/common/Args.cpp

@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@
 #include <QApplication>
 #include <QCommandLineParser>
 #include <QDebug>
-#include <QJsonArray>
-#include <QJsonDocument>
-#include <QJsonObject>
 #include <QStringList>
 #include "common/QLogging.hpp"
+#include "singletons/Paths.hpp"
+#include "singletons/WindowManager.hpp"
+#include "util/CombinePath.hpp"
+#include "widgets/Window.hpp"
 
 namespace chatterino {
 
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ Args::Args(const QApplication &app)
 
     if (parser.isSet("help"))
     {
-        qCInfo(chatterinoArgs).noquote() << parser.helpText();
+        qInfo().noquote() << parser.helpText();
         ::exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
     }
 
@@ -56,10 +57,52 @@ Args::Args(const QApplication &app)
 
     if (parser.isSet("c"))
     {
-        QJsonArray channelArray;
-        QStringList channelArgList = parser.value("c").split(";");
-        for (QString channelArg : channelArgList)
+        this->applyCustomChannelLayout(parser.value("c"));
+    }
+
+    this->printVersion = parser.isSet("v");
+    this->crashRecovery = parser.isSet("crash-recovery");
+}
+
+void Args::applyCustomChannelLayout(const QString &argValue)
 {
+    WindowLayout layout;
+    WindowDescriptor window;
+
+    /*
+     * There is only one window that is loaded from the --channels
+     * argument so that is what we use as the main window.
+     */
+    window.type_ = WindowType::Main;
+
+    // Load main window layout from config file so we can use the same geometry
+    const QRect configMainLayout = [] {
+        const QString windowLayoutFile =
+            combinePath(getPaths()->settingsDirectory,
+                        WindowManager::WINDOW_LAYOUT_FILENAME);
+
+        const WindowLayout configLayout =
+            WindowLayout::loadFromFile(windowLayoutFile);
+
+        for (const WindowDescriptor &window : configLayout.windows_)
+        {
+            if (window.type_ != WindowType::Main)
+                continue;
+
+            return window.geometry_;
+        }
+
+        return QRect(-1, -1, -1, -1);
+    }();
+
+    window.geometry_ = std::move(configMainLayout);
+
+    QStringList channelArgList = argValue.split(";");
+    for (const QString &channelArg : channelArgList)
+    {
+        if (channelArg.isEmpty())
+            continue;
+
         // Twitch is default platform
         QString platform = "t";
         QString channelName = channelArg;
@@ -74,24 +117,24 @@ Args::Args(const QApplication &app)
         // Twitch (default)
         if (platform == "t")
         {
-                // TODO: try not to parse JSON
-                QString channelObjectString =
-                    "{\"splits2\": { \"data\": { \"name\": \"" + channelName +
-                    "\", \"type\": \"twitch\" }, \"type\": \"split\" }}";
-                channelArray.push_back(
-                    QJsonDocument::fromJson(channelObjectString.toUtf8())
-                        .object());
-            }
-        }
-        if (channelArray.size() > 0)
-        {
-            this->dontSaveSettings = true;
-            this->channelsToJoin = channelArray;
+            TabDescriptor tab;
+
+            // Set first tab as selected
+            tab.selected_ = window.tabs_.empty();
+            tab.rootNode_ = SplitNodeDescriptor{"twitch", channelName};
+
+            window.tabs_.emplace_back(std::move(tab));
         }
     }
 
-    this->printVersion = parser.isSet("v");
-    this->crashRecovery = parser.isSet("crash-recovery");
+    // Only respect --channels if we could actually parse any channels
+    if (!window.tabs_.empty())
+    {
+        this->dontSaveSettings = true;
+
+        layout.windows_.emplace_back(std::move(window));
+        this->customChannelLayout = std::move(layout);
+    }
 }
 
 static Args *instance = nullptr;

src/common/Args.hpp

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #include <QApplication>
-#include <QJsonArray>
+#include <boost/optional.hpp>
+#include "common/WindowDescriptors.hpp"
 
 namespace chatterino {
 
@@ -15,7 +16,10 @@ public:
     bool crashRecovery{};
     bool shouldRunBrowserExtensionHost{};
     bool dontSaveSettings{};
-    QJsonArray channelsToJoin{};
+    boost::optional<WindowLayout> customChannelLayout;
+
+private:
+    void applyCustomChannelLayout(const QString &argValue);
 };
 
 void initArgs(const QApplication &app);

src/main.cpp

@@ -27,30 +27,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     QCoreApplication::setApplicationVersion(CHATTERINO_VERSION);
     QCoreApplication::setOrganizationDomain("https://www.chatterino.com");
 
-    initArgs(a);
-
-    // run in gui mode or browser extension host mode
-    if (getArgs().shouldRunBrowserExtensionHost)
-    {
-        runBrowserExtensionHost();
-    }
-    else if (getArgs().printVersion)
-    {
-        auto version = Version::instance();
-        qCInfo(chatterinoMain).noquote()
-            << QString("%1 (commit %2%3)")
-                   .arg(version.fullVersion())
-                   .arg(version.commitHash())
-                   .arg(Modes::instance().isNightly
-                            ? ", " + version.dateOfBuild()
-                            : "");
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        IvrApi::initialize();
-        Helix::initialize();
-        Kraken::initialize();
-
     Paths *paths{};
 
     try
@@ -78,6 +54,29 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         return 1;
     }
 
+    initArgs(a);
+
+    // run in gui mode or browser extension host mode
+    if (getArgs().shouldRunBrowserExtensionHost)
+    {
+        runBrowserExtensionHost();
+    }
+    else if (getArgs().printVersion)
+    {
+        auto version = Version::instance();
+        qInfo().noquote() << QString("%1 (commit %2%3)")
+                                 .arg(version.fullVersion())
+                                 .arg(version.commitHash())
+                                 .arg(Modes::instance().isNightly
+                                          ? ", " + version.dateOfBuild()
+                                          : "");
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        IvrApi::initialize();
+        Helix::initialize();
+        Kraken::initialize();
+
         Settings settings(paths->settingsDirectory);
 
         runGui(a, *paths, settings);

src/singletons/WindowManager.cpp

@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@
 namespace chatterino {
 namespace {
 
-    const QString WINDOW_LAYOUT_FILENAME(QStringLiteral("window-layout.json"));
-
     boost::optional<bool> &shouldMoveOutOfBoundsWindow()
     {
         static boost::optional<bool> x;
@@ -47,6 +45,9 @@ namespace {
 
 }  // namespace
 
+const QString WindowManager::WINDOW_LAYOUT_FILENAME(
+    QStringLiteral("window-layout.json"));
+
 using SplitNode = SplitContainer::Node;
 using SplitDirection = SplitContainer::Direction;
 
@@ -83,8 +84,8 @@ void WindowManager::showAccountSelectPopup(QPoint point)
 }
 
 WindowManager::WindowManager()
-    : windowLayoutFilePath(
-          combinePath(getPaths()->settingsDirectory, WINDOW_LAYOUT_FILENAME))
+    : windowLayoutFilePath(combinePath(getPaths()->settingsDirectory,
+                                       WindowManager::WINDOW_LAYOUT_FILENAME))
 {
     qCDebug(chatterinoWindowmanager) << "init WindowManager";
 
@@ -297,7 +298,16 @@ void WindowManager::initialize(Settings &settings, Paths &paths)
     assert(!this->initialized_);
 
     {
-        auto windowLayout = this->loadWindowLayoutFromFile();
+        WindowLayout windowLayout;
+
+        if (getArgs().customChannelLayout)
+        {
+            windowLayout = getArgs().customChannelLayout.value();
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            windowLayout = this->loadWindowLayoutFromFile();
+        }
 
         this->emotePopupPos_ = windowLayout.emotePopupPos_;
 
@@ -305,10 +315,10 @@ void WindowManager::initialize(Settings &settings, Paths &paths)
     }
 
     // No main window has been created from loading, create an empty one
-    if (mainWindow_ == nullptr)
+    if (this->mainWindow_ == nullptr)
     {
-        mainWindow_ = &this->createWindow(WindowType::Main);
-        mainWindow_->getNotebook().addPage(true);
+        this->mainWindow_ = &this->createWindow(WindowType::Main);
+        this->mainWindow_->getNotebook().addPage(true);
     }
 
     settings.timestampFormat.connect([this](auto, auto) {

src/singletons/WindowManager.hpp

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ enum class SettingsDialogPreference;
 class WindowManager final : public Singleton
 {
 public:
+    static const QString WINDOW_LAYOUT_FILENAME;
+
     WindowManager();
 
     static void encodeChannel(IndirectChannel channel, QJsonObject &obj);