I've just found the

--pretend

switch in

commandbox-migrations

but I'm getting an error.

migrate down --pretend down.sql

Parameter [once] has a value of ["down.sql"] which is not of type [boolean].

What have I misunderstood?

Looking at the error, is it expecting

--pretend=true

or

--pretend true

or something?

The normal convention is that a switch is false by default but becomes true if used. Worryingly

migrate down --once --pretend=true down.sql

appears to have actioned the

down

which is why I added the

--once

this time as insurance. I guess I'll have to dig into the source to see where I have it wrong.

It's odd cos the few times I've tried to negotiate commandbox's way of handling command line params, it's bleated at me about using different styles (short vs long vs dashes vs no dashes etc / or something). I'd expect it to need

--file

not just

file

. But there's poss some well-thought-out reason for it. I'm just CB noob after all.

I think CommandBox is fairly consistent with its

--

prefixes. Other command line tools, not so much, which is where I also get confused. Another conversation I know but I would have thought

-h

when you want to be terse and

--help

when you want to be explicit should be the convention. Not all tools work like that I've found. The online docs seem to be behind the command line help which doesn't help. Also with the default position for these switches being

false

if you are explicit, as I was trying to be, and use

--once=true

they seems to be ignored. Maybe I'll take a hack at that. I think the issue is that these are meant to be argument that also operate as switches. I could test this but I've moved on now...

migrate up once=true pretend=true file=up.sql

...and I guess that would work. Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts whilst our American friends "labor" today.

Are they labouring to find their lost letter Us? 😉

If only they would put the "s" they insist on adding to LEGO onto math I would be a lot happier. I'm so glad we gave them their independence 😉