From feac87bd33d6215798351a769ee5dbe2f3ec0aeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugo Gonzalez <github@hugo.labkode.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 22:46:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add version flag and build information

---
 cmd/clawiod/build.sh |  7 +++++--
 cmd/clawiod/main.go  | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/clawiod/build.sh b/cmd/clawiod/build.sh
index 34a6b5e..ab42078 100755
--- a/cmd/clawiod/build.sh
+++ b/cmd/clawiod/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # ClawIO build script. Add build variables to compiled binary.
-#
-# Usage:
+# # Usage:
 #
 #     $ ./build.bash [output_filename] [git_repo]
 #
@@ -46,6 +45,10 @@ commit_name="${pkg}.gitCommit"
 commit_value="$(git -C "${git_repo}" rev-parse --short HEAD)"
 ldflags+=("-X" "\"${commit_name}=${commit_value}\"")
 
+# Application name
+app_name="${pkg}.appName"
+ldflags+=("-X" "\"${app_name}=${output_filename}\"")
+
 
 releases_dir=${git_repo}/releases
 rm -rf ${releases_dir}
diff --git a/cmd/clawiod/main.go b/cmd/clawiod/main.go
index 5dd4db7..80fbe61 100644
--- a/cmd/clawiod/main.go
+++ b/cmd/clawiod/main.go
@@ -44,14 +44,31 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
-var flagConfigurationSource string
+var (
+	flagConfigurationSource string
+	flagVersion             bool
+)
+
+// Build information obtained with the help of -ldflags
+var (
+	appName       string
+	buildDate     string // date -u
+	gitTag        string // git describe --exact-match HEAD
+	gitNearestTag string // git describe --abbrev=0 --tags HEAD
+	gitCommit     string // git rev-parse HEAD
+)
 
 func init() {
 	flag.StringVar(&flagConfigurationSource, "conf", "file:clawiod.conf", "Configuration source where to obtain the configuration")
+	flag.BoolVar(&flagVersion, "version", false, "Show version")
 	flag.Parse()
 }
 
 func main() {
+	if flagVersion {
+		handleVersion()
+	}
+
 	configurationSource, err := getConfigurationSource(flagConfigurationSource)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Println(err)
@@ -109,6 +126,15 @@ func main() {
 	}
 }
 
+func handleVersion() {
+	// if gitTag is not empty we are on release build
+	if gitTag != "" {
+		fmt.Printf("%s %s commit:%s release-build\n", appName, gitNearestTag, gitCommit)
+		os.Exit(0)
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("%s %s commit:%s dev-build\n", appName, gitNearestTag, gitCommit)
+	os.Exit(0)
+}
 func getUserDriver(config root.Configuration) (root.UserDriver, error) {
 	switch config.GetUserDriver() {
 	case "memuserdriver":