How to express the array of objects via CLI?

Question

I want to express below data via CLI parameters:

[
 {
    taskName: "preProcessMarkup",
    entryPointsGroups: [ "open", "admin", "emails" ]
 },
 {
    taskName: "preProcessStyles",
    entryPointsGroups: [ "open", "admin" ]
 }
]

It would be something like:

builder buildProject --taskName preProcessMarkup // ... here goes the 
// related with task "preProcessMarkup"

Please teach me the correct syntax or suggest the alternatives.

Notes

This question not about how to parse commands. This question about how to write commands.
My application is being written by Node.js. I don't know how far CLI syntax is unified.

@bravemaster, thank you for the comment. I'am sorry for asked what I want enough clearly. I want to know how to write such command, not how to parse it. — Takeshi Tokugawa YD, Jul 14 '20 at 06:59
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36433461/how-do-i-add-a-custom-script-to-my-package-json-file-that-runs-a-javascript-file — glinda93, Jul 14 '20 at 07:02
@bravemaster, please tell me which details are required and I'll add them. — Takeshi Tokugawa YD, Jul 14 '20 at 07:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '20 at 08:14

You could do something like:

$ builder buildProject --taskName preProcessMarkup --entryPointsGroup open --entryPointsGroup admin --entryPointsGroup emails --taskName preProcessStyles --entryPointsGroup open --entryPointsGroup admin

and parsing it;

or something accepting comma separated lists, something like:

$ builder buildProject --taskName preProcessMarkup --entryPointsGroups open,admin,emails --taskName preProcessStyles --entryPointsGroups open,admin

and again parsing it;

but I would suggest to follow the KISS principle and doing something like:

$ builder buildProject '[{"taskName":"preProcessMarkup","entryPointsGroups":["open","admin","emails"]},{"taskName":"preProcessStyles","entryPointsGroups":["open","admin"]}]'

and then parsing it simply with a JSON.parse.

How to express the array of objects via CLI?

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