refactor: remove Cobra dependency from explorer app

explorer/cmd/cmd.go

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package cmd
+
+import "github.com/ignite/cli/v28/ignite/services/plugin"
+
+// GetCommands returns the list of explorer app commands.
+func GetCommands() []*plugin.Command {
+	return []*plugin.Command{
+		{
+			Use:     "explorer [command]",
+			Short:   "Run chain explorer commands",
+			Aliases: []string{"e"},
+			Commands: []*plugin.Command{
+				{
+					Use:     "gex [rpc_url]",
+					Short:   "Run gex",
+					Aliases: []string{"g"},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+}

explorer/cmd/gex.go

@@ -1,57 +1,51 @@
 package cmd
 
 import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
 
+	"github.com/ignite/cli/v28/ignite/services/plugin"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 
-	"github.com/ignite/apps/explorer/pkg/gex"
+	"github.com/ignite/apps/explorer/gex"
 )
 
-const (
-	defaultHost = "localhost"
-	defaultPort = "26657"
-)
+const maxNumArgs = 1
 
-func NewGex() *cobra.Command {
-	c := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:     "gex [rpc_url]",
-		Aliases: []string{"g"},
-		Short:   "Run gex",
-		Args:    cobra.MaximumNArgs(1),
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			host := defaultHost
-			port := defaultPort
-			ssl := false
-
-			if len(args) == 1 {
-				rpcURL, err := url.Parse(args[0])
-				if err != nil {
-					return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to parse rpc url %s", args[0])
-				}
-
-				host = rpcURL.Hostname()
-				port = rpcURL.Port()
-				ssl = rpcURL.Scheme == "https"
-				if port == "" {
-					if ssl {
-						port = "443"
-					} else {
-						port = "80"
-					}
-				}
-			}
+// ExecuteGex executes explorer gex subcommand.
+func ExecuteGex(ctx context.Context, cmd *plugin.ExecutedCommand) error {
+	argc := len(cmd.Args)
+	if argc > maxNumArgs {
+		return fmt.Errorf("accepts at most %d arg(s), received %d", maxNumArgs, argc)
+	}
 
-			g, err := gex.New()
-			if err != nil {
-				return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to initialize gex")
+	ssl := false
+	host := "localhost"
+	port := "26657"
+
+	if argc == 1 {
+		rpcURL, err := url.Parse(cmd.Args[0])
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to parse RPC URL %s", cmd.Args[0])
+		}
+
+		ssl = rpcURL.Scheme == "https"
+		host = rpcURL.Hostname()
+		port = rpcURL.Port()
+		if port == "" {
+			if ssl {
+				port = "443"
+			} else {
+				port = "80"
 			}
-
-			return g.Run(cmd.Context(), os.Stdout, os.Stderr, host, port, ssl)
-		},
+		}
 	}
 
-	return c
+	g, err := gex.New()
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to initialize Gex")
+	}
+	return g.Run(ctx, os.Stdout, os.Stderr, host, port, ssl)
 }

explorer/pkg/gex/gex.go → explorer/gex/gex.go

@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
-// Gex represents the gex binary structure.
+// Gex represents the Gex binary structure.
 type Gex struct {
 	path    string
 	cleanup func()
 }
 
-// New returns the hermes binary executable.
+// New returns the Gex binary executable.
 func New() (*Gex, error) {
 	// untar the binary.
 	gzr, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(gex.Binary()))

explorer/go.mod

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/ignite/cli/v28 v28.0.0
 	github.com/ignite/ignite-files/gex v0.0.1
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
-	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0
 )
 
 require (
@@ -64,6 +63,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/skeema/knownhosts v1.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/sourcegraph/annotate v0.0.0-20160123013949-f4cad6c6324d // indirect
 	github.com/sourcegraph/syntaxhighlight v0.0.0-20170531221838-bd320f5d308e // indirect
+	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0 // indirect
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 // indirect
 	github.com/xanzy/ssh-agent v0.3.3 // indirect
 	go.etcd.io/bbolt v1.3.8 // indirect

explorer/main.go

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"os"
+	"fmt"
 
 	hplugin "github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin"
 	"github.com/ignite/cli/v28/ignite/services/plugin"
@@ -13,19 +13,22 @@ import (
 type app struct{}
 
 func (app) Manifest(context.Context) (*plugin.Manifest, error) {
-	m := &plugin.Manifest{Name: "explorer"}
-	m.ImportCobraCommand(cmd.NewExplorer(), "ignite")
-	return m, nil
+	return &plugin.Manifest{
+		Name:     "explorer",
+		Commands: cmd.GetCommands(),
+	}, nil
 }
 
-func (app) Execute(_ context.Context, c *plugin.ExecutedCommand, _ plugin.ClientAPI) error {
-	// Instead of a switch on c.Use, we run the root command like if
-	// we were in a command line context. This implies to set os.Args
-	// correctly.
-	// Remove the first arg "ignite" from OSArgs because our explorer
-	// command root is "explorer" not "ignite".
-	os.Args = c.OsArgs[1:]
-	return cmd.NewExplorer().Execute()
+func (app) Execute(ctx context.Context, c *plugin.ExecutedCommand, _ plugin.ClientAPI) error {
+	args := c.OsArgs
+	name := args[len(args)-1]
+
+	switch name {
+	case "gex":
+		return cmd.ExecuteGex(ctx, c)
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("unknown command: %s", c.Path)
+	}
 }
 
 func (app) ExecuteHookPre(context.Context, *plugin.ExecutedHook, plugin.ClientAPI) error {