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authorPetr Viktorin <pviktori@redhat.com>2012-11-08 08:00:51 -0500
committerRob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>2013-02-18 13:07:17 -0500
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Store the OptionParser in the API, use it to print unified help messages
Make `ipa -h` and `ipa help` output the same message. Since `ipa -h` output is generated by the OptionParser, we need to make the parser available. Store it in `api.parser`. Part of the effort for https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3060
Diffstat (limited to 'ipalib/cli.py')
-rw-r--r--ipalib/cli.py11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ipalib/cli.py b/ipalib/cli.py
index 704a75ca3..a20c06e85 100644
--- a/ipalib/cli.py
+++ b/ipalib/cli.py
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ class help(frontend.Local):
name = from_cli(key)
mod_name = '%s.%s' % (self._PLUGIN_BASE_MODULE, name)
if key is None:
- make_ipa_parser().print_help(outfile)
+ self.api.parser.print_help(outfile)
return
if name == "topics":
self.print_topics(outfile)
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ class help(frontend.Local):
if cmd.NO_CLI:
raise HelpError(topic=name)
writer(_('Purpose: %s') % unicode(_(cmd.doc)).strip())
- self.Backend.cli.build_parser(cmd).print_help()
+ self.Backend.cli.build_parser(cmd).print_help(outfile)
elif mod_name in sys.modules:
self.print_commands(name, outfile)
elif name == "commands":
@@ -795,10 +795,6 @@ class help(frontend.Local):
writer(_('Usage: ipa [global-options] COMMAND [command-options]...'))
writer()
- writer(_('Built-in commands:'))
- for c in self._builtins:
- writer(' %s %s' % (to_cli(c.name).ljust(self._mtl), c.summary))
- writer()
writer(_('Help topics:'))
for t in topics:
topic = self._topics[t]
@@ -1029,8 +1025,9 @@ class cli(backend.Executioner):
On incorrect invocation, prints out a help message and returns None
"""
if len(argv) == 0:
+ self.Command.help(outfile=sys.stderr)
+ print >>sys.stderr
print >>sys.stderr, 'Error: Command not specified'
- self.Command.help()
exit(2)
(key, argv) = (argv[0], argv[1:])
name = from_cli(key)