following #5

I had a look on the API proposed in the branch develop (See man ./docopts.1). Which is quite different from the current docopts API.

Old API (current)

eval "$(python3 $libexec/docopts -A args -V "$version" -h "$help" : "$@")"

if ${args[--do-something]} ; then
  run_some_code
fi

current API in branch develop, generating temporary files for each option on the filesystem

tmpdir=$(echo "$help" | python3 $libexec/docopts "$@")                                                        
if [ -e $tmpdir/--do-something ]; then
    echo "Option given with argument $(cat $tmpdir/--do-something)."
fi

I think about a new API, more like the python's library could be quite nice to have.

Something like the following code snippet, (to be completed…)
Specifying the associative array for $args and some shell centric behavior have to be considered, too.

#!/bin/bash
# sourcing the API providing some bash functions ie: docopt()
# still using the python parser
source docopts.sh

parsed=$(docopt -A args "$help_string" "$@" "$version" "$options_first")
eval "$parsed"

and may be some shell helpers too:

help_string=$(get_help_string $0)

array_opt=( $(get_docopt array "${args[--multiple-time]})" )

Please comment and suggest. I will develop and propose some versions.

You may also be tempted to say: "bash is not capable to handle simply the complexity of the JSON parsed structure behind docopt. Consider rewriting your shell script directly in python…"