Use tauri-plugin-cli with tauri-plugin-single-instance

[mikew]

Is there any way to use the args provided by tauri-plugin-single-instance with the CLI arg parsing of tauri-plugin-cli? I'd like to have a single instance, but my app has some CLI commands, and I don't want to lose them by having a single instance.

[Legend-Master]

We don't have that yet I think, we only have matches right now that parses the command line arguments from std::env::args_os

plugins-workspace/plugins/cli/src/lib.rs

Lines 30 to 34 in 5642283

	impl<R: Runtime> Cli<R> {
	pub fn matches(&self) -> Result<parser::Matches> {
	parser::get_matches(self.0.config(), self.0.app().package_info())
	}
	}

Should be easy to add a new function that does that with user provided arguments though

[mikew]

I was able to cobble this together but am not very confident in my Rust to make a PR:

https://github.com/mikew/plugins-workspace/blob/8408ffb0372431624f2f163ba7ce57d9e6603d11/plugins/cli/src/parser.rs#L100

It does work, but actually using the two plugins together is a little awkward, probably again due to my Rust knowledge but I have to JSON serialize the Matches to a string to avoid Rust complaining about the `Clone' trait, and then JSON parse on the client side:

https://github.com/mikew/wadpunk/blob/8599eaf49816ad3e3082abd4fb042ab7e6cdf1b1/src-tauri/src/main.rs#L40

[Legend-Master]

I think that's probably a bug in tauri 😂, emit_to shouldn't require the Clone trait it doesn't use it right now, but might be needed in the future if the rust listen function gets typed
But to be fair though, we do serde_json::to_string and JSON.parse internally anyways, this is not much different

I was able to cobble this together but am not very confident in my Rust to make a PR:

Don't worry, give it a try and we'll guide you through it 🙃

[mikew]

PR up at #2787