feat: replace stdlig flag with pflag by spf13

cmd/server/main.go

@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	// kick off the watchdog depending on the environment variables
-	if env.WatchdogEnabled {
+	if env.Watchdog {
 		slog.Info("kicking off database watchdog", "watchdog_interval", env.WatchdogInterval)
 		database.KickoffDatabaseWatchdog(env, db)
 	} else {
-		slog.Info("skipping database watchdog", "watchdog_enabled", env.WatchdogEnabled)
+		slog.Info("skipping database watchdog", "watchdog_enabled", env.Watchdog)
 	}
 
 	// TO DO make gin log as json

go.mod

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ go 1.26.1
 require (
 	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.12.0
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0
+	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10
 	gorm.io/driver/sqlite v1.6.0
 	gorm.io/gorm v1.31.1
 )

go.sum

@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ github.com/quic-go/qpack v0.6.0 h1:g7W+BMYynC1LbYLSqRt8PBg5Tgwxn214ZZR34VIOjz8=
 github.com/quic-go/qpack v0.6.0/go.mod h1:lUpLKChi8njB4ty2bFLX2x4gzDqXwUpaO1DP9qMDZII=
 github.com/quic-go/quic-go v0.59.0 h1:OLJkp1Mlm/aS7dpKgTc6cnpynnD2Xg7C1pwL6vy/SAw=
 github.com/quic-go/quic-go v0.59.0/go.mod h1:upnsH4Ju1YkqpLXC305eW3yDZ4NfnNbmQRCMWS58IKU=
+github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10 h1:4EBh2KAYBwaONj6b2Ye1GiHfwjqyROoF4RwYO+vPwFk=
+github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
 github.com/stretchr/objx v0.1.0/go.mod h1:HFkY916IF+rwdDfMAkV7OtwuqBVzrE8GR6GFx+wExME=
 github.com/stretchr/objx v0.4.0/go.mod h1:YvHI0jy2hoMjB+UWwv71VJQ9isScKT/TqJzVSSt89Yw=
 github.com/stretchr/objx v0.5.0/go.mod h1:Yh+to48EsGEfYuaHDzXPcE3xhTkx73EhmCGUpEOglKo=

internal/server/api/api.go

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func KickoffApi(logger *slog.Logger, env bootstrap.Environment, db *gorm.DB) {
 	r.Use(middleware.SlogMiddleware(logger))
 	r.Use(gin.Recovery())
 
-	if env.AuthenticationEnabled {
+	if env.Authentication {
 		slog.Debug("activating authentication middleware") // only log when actually doign the thing it logs to do
 		r.Use(middleware.AuthMiddleware())
 	}

internal/server/bootstrap/bootstrap.go

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 package bootstrap
 
 import (
-	"flag"
 	"os"
 	"reflect"
 	"strconv"
+
+	flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"
 )
 
 type Environment struct {
@@ -14,11 +15,11 @@ type Environment struct {
 
 	DataDirectory    string `env:"DATA_DIR" default:"./data" flag:"data-dir" usage:"option to specify where the state data gets stored"`
 	ContentDirectory string `env:"CONTENT_DIR" default:"./content" flag:"content-dir" usage:"option to specify where the content gets stored"`
-	Hostname              string `env:"HOSTNAME" default:"0.0.0.0" flag:"hostname" usage:"option specify the address/hostname to bind the api server to"`
+	Hostname         string `env:"HOSTNAME" default:"0.0.0.0" flag:"hostname" usage:"option to specify the address/hostname to bind the api server to"`
 	Port             int    `env:"PORT" default:"8080" flag:"port" usage:"option to specify the port to bind the api server to"`
-	AuthenticationEnabled bool   `env:"AUTH_ENABLED" default:"true" flag:"auth" usage:"option to disable authentication"`
+	Authentication   bool   `env:"AUTHENTICATION" default:"true" flag:"authentication" usage:"option to disable authentication"`
 
-	WatchdogEnabled  bool   `env:"WATCHDOG_ENABLED" default:"true" flag:"watchdog" usage:"option to disable watchdog"`
+	Watchdog         bool   `env:"WATCHDOG" default:"true" flag:"watchdog" usage:"option to disable watchdog"`
 	WatchdogInterval int    `env:"WATCHDOG_INTERVAL" default:"60" flag:"watchdog-interval" usage:"option to specify the interval in second(s) on which watchdog runs"`
 	WatchdogSyncMode string `env:"WATCHDOG_SYNC_MODE" default:"strict" flag:"watchdog-mode" usage:"option to specify the mode watchdog will run with: strict|sync|dry"`
 }
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ func loadFromEnv(env *Environment) {
 
 		// If the variable is not found or is empty
 		raw, ok := os.LookupEnv(key)
-		if !ok || raw == "" {
+		if !ok || len(raw) == 0 {
 			raw = fallback
 		}
 
@@ -68,17 +69,19 @@ func bindFlags(env *Environment) {
 
 		flagName := field.Tag.Get("flag")
 		flagUsage := field.Tag.Get("usage")
-		if flagName == "" {
+		if len(flagName) == 0 {
 			continue
 		}
 
 		switch valueField.Kind() {
 		case reflect.String:
-			flag.StringVar(valueField.Addr().Interface().(*string), flagName,
+			flag.StringVar(
+				valueField.Addr().Interface().(*string), flagName,
 				valueField.String(), flagUsage,
 			)
 		case reflect.Int:
-			flag.IntVar(valueField.Addr().Interface().(*int), flagName,
+			flag.IntVar(
+				valueField.Addr().Interface().(*int), flagName,
 				int(valueField.Int()), flagUsage,
 			)
 		case reflect.Bool: