Add --version option to deltachat-rpc-server

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Changes
+- Add support for `--version` argument to `deltachat-rpc-server`. #4224
+  It can be used to check the installed version without starting the server.
 
 ### Fixes
 - deltachat-rpc-client: fix bug in `Chat.send_message()`: invalid `MessageData` field `quotedMsg` instead of `quotedMsgId`

Cargo.lock

@@ -1250,6 +1250,7 @@ name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
 version = "1.112.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
+ "deltachat",
  "deltachat-jsonrpc",
  "env_logger 0.10.0",
  "futures-lite",

deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ categories = ["cryptography", "std", "email"]
 
 [dependencies]
 deltachat-jsonrpc = { path = "../deltachat-jsonrpc", default-features = false }
+deltachat = { path = "..", default-features = false }
 
 anyhow = "1"
 env_logger = { version = "0.10.0" }

deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+use std::env;
 ///! Delta Chat core RPC server.
 ///!
 ///! It speaks JSON Lines over stdio.
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
-use anyhow::Result;
+use anyhow::{anyhow, Context as _, Result};
+use deltachat::constants::DC_VERSION_STR;
 use deltachat_jsonrpc::api::events::event_to_json_rpc_notification;
 use deltachat_jsonrpc::api::{Accounts, CommandApi};
 use futures_lite::stream::StreamExt;
@@ -13,6 +15,23 @@ use yerpc::{RpcClient, RpcSession};
 
 #[tokio::main(flavor = "multi_thread")]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    let mut args = env::args_os();
+    let _program_name = args.next().context("no command line arguments found")?;
+    if let Some(first_arg) = args.next() {
+        if first_arg.to_str() == Some("--version") {
+            if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
+                return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {:?}", arg));
+            }
+            eprintln!("{}", &*DC_VERSION_STR);
+            return Ok(());
+        } else {
+            return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized option {:?}", first_arg));
+        }
+    }
+    if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
+        return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {:?}", arg));
+    }
+
     env_logger::Builder::from_env(env_logger::Env::default().default_filter_or("info")).init();
 
     let path = std::env::var("DC_ACCOUNTS_PATH").unwrap_or_else(|_| "accounts".to_string());