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poky/scripts/lib/argparse_oe.py
Paul Eggleton 32ef523898 devtool: categorise and order subcommands in help output
The listing of subcommands in the --help output for devtool was starting
to get difficult to follow, with commands appearing in no particular
order (due to some being in separate modules and the order of those
modules being parsed). Logically grouping the subcommands as well as
being able to exercise some control over the order of the subcommands
and groups would help, if we do so without losing the dynamic nature of
the list (i.e. that it comes from the plugins). Argparse provides no
built-in way to handle this and really, really makes it a pain to add,
but with some subclassing and hacking it's now possible, and can be
extended by any plugin as desired.

To put a subcommand into a group, all you need to do is specify a group=
parameter in the call to subparsers.add_parser(). you can also specify
an order= parameter to make the subcommand sort higher or lower in the
list (higher order numbers appear first, so use negative numbers to
force items to the end if that's what you want). To add a new group, use
subparsers.add_subparser_group(), supplying the name, description and
optionally an order number for the group itself (again, higher numbers
appear first).

(From OE-Core rev: e1b9d31e6ea3c254ecfe940fe795af44761e0e69)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-21 09:32:42 +00:00

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import sys
import argparse
from collections import defaultdict, OrderedDict
class ArgumentUsageError(Exception):
"""Exception class you can raise (and catch) in order to show the help"""
def __init__(self, message, subcommand=None):
self.message = message
self.subcommand = subcommand
class ArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
"""Our own version of argparse's ArgumentParser"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
kwargs.setdefault('formatter_class', OeHelpFormatter)
self._subparser_groups = OrderedDict()
super(ArgumentParser, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
def error(self, message):
sys.stderr.write('ERROR: %s\n' % message)
self.print_help()
sys.exit(2)
def error_subcommand(self, message, subcommand):
if subcommand:
for action in self._actions:
if isinstance(action, argparse._SubParsersAction):
for choice, subparser in action.choices.items():
if choice == subcommand:
subparser.error(message)
return
self.error(message)
def add_subparsers(self, *args, **kwargs):
ret = super(ArgumentParser, self).add_subparsers(*args, **kwargs)
# Need a way of accessing the parent parser
ret._parent_parser = self
# Ensure our class gets instantiated
ret._parser_class = ArgumentSubParser
# Hacky way of adding a method to the subparsers object
ret.add_subparser_group = self.add_subparser_group
return ret
def add_subparser_group(self, groupname, groupdesc, order=0):
self._subparser_groups[groupname] = (groupdesc, order)
class ArgumentSubParser(ArgumentParser):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
if 'group' in kwargs:
self._group = kwargs.pop('group')
if 'order' in kwargs:
self._order = kwargs.pop('order')
super(ArgumentSubParser, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
def parse_known_args(self, args=None, namespace=None):
# This works around argparse not handling optional positional arguments being
# intermixed with other options. A pretty horrible hack, but we're not left
# with much choice given that the bug in argparse exists and it's difficult
# to subclass.
# Borrowed from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20165843/argparse-how-to-handle-variable-number-of-arguments-nargs
# with an extra workaround (in format_help() below) for the positional
# arguments disappearing from the --help output, as well as structural tweaks.
# Originally simplified from http://bugs.python.org/file30204/test_intermixed.py
positionals = self._get_positional_actions()
for action in positionals:
# deactivate positionals
action.save_nargs = action.nargs
action.nargs = 0
namespace, remaining_args = super(ArgumentSubParser, self).parse_known_args(args, namespace)
for action in positionals:
# remove the empty positional values from namespace
if hasattr(namespace, action.dest):
delattr(namespace, action.dest)
for action in positionals:
action.nargs = action.save_nargs
# parse positionals
namespace, extras = super(ArgumentSubParser, self).parse_known_args(remaining_args, namespace)
return namespace, extras
def format_help(self):
# Quick, restore the positionals!
positionals = self._get_positional_actions()
for action in positionals:
if hasattr(action, 'save_nargs'):
action.nargs = action.save_nargs
return super(ArgumentParser, self).format_help()
class OeHelpFormatter(argparse.HelpFormatter):
def _format_action(self, action):
if hasattr(action, '_get_subactions'):
# subcommands list
groupmap = defaultdict(list)
ordermap = {}
subparser_groups = action._parent_parser._subparser_groups
groups = sorted(subparser_groups.keys(), key=lambda item: subparser_groups[item][1], reverse=True)
for subaction in self._iter_indented_subactions(action):
parser = action._name_parser_map[subaction.dest]
group = getattr(parser, '_group', None)
groupmap[group].append(subaction)
if group not in groups:
groups.append(group)
order = getattr(parser, '_order', 0)
ordermap[subaction.dest] = order
lines = []
if len(groupmap) > 1:
groupindent = ' '
else:
groupindent = ''
for group in groups:
subactions = groupmap[group]
if not subactions:
continue
if groupindent:
if not group:
group = 'other'
groupdesc = subparser_groups.get(group, (group, 0))[0]
lines.append(' %s:' % groupdesc)
for subaction in sorted(subactions, key=lambda item: ordermap[item.dest], reverse=True):
lines.append('%s%s' % (groupindent, self._format_action(subaction).rstrip()))
return '\n'.join(lines)
else:
return super(OeHelpFormatter, self)._format_action(action)