From c3166ef17b9882d017665476147ccaf0999e7717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: n loewen <nick@nloewen.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 19:09:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Change parse() output to always use long flag names as keys

---
 opter.js | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/opter.js b/opter.js
index e739eac..692ae51 100644
--- a/opter.js
+++ b/opter.js
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ module.exports = class Opter {
   parse(argv) {
     this.userOptions = argvToObject(argv);
 
+    // collect user opts with the long names as keys, for output
+    let normalizedUserOptions = {};
+
     Object.keys(this.definedOptions).forEach(longName => {
       let shortName = this.synonyms[longName];
       let reqs = this.definedOptions[longName];
@@ -52,6 +55,10 @@ module.exports = class Opter {
       if (typeof this.userOptions[longName] === 'object') { userArgs = this.userOptions[longName]; }
       if (typeof this.userOptions[shortName] === 'object') { userArgs = this.userOptions[shortName]; }
 
+      if (provided) {
+        normalizedUserOptions[longName] = typeof userArgs === 'object' ? userArgs : true;
+      }
+
       /* Check that required options are provided */
       if (reqs.required && !provided) {
         throw new Error(`Missing required option '${longName}'`);
@@ -70,7 +77,7 @@ module.exports = class Opter {
       }
     })
 
-    return this.userOptions;
+    return normalizedUserOptions;
   }
 }