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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-74594

Make QCommandLineParser output optionally machine readable (ie --helpjson) to support auto-completion of process *arguments* in system shells

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      If QCommandLineParser's help data was output in a machine readable format (json, etc), then shell auto-completion of process arguments could be configured in an automated fashion (at least for Qt apps that use QCommandLineParser). Ideally the output json format would be generic so that Gtk/etc could share the same format.

      One could modify QCommandLineParser itself to add this functionality, or create a new class that takes a populated QCommandLineParser in it's constructor (QCommandLineParser might need to declare this new class a "friend", however it's essentially just iterating over the public QCommandLineParser::optionNames and QCommandLineParser::positionalArguments). The latter is probably the cleaner approach.

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