From d6e1e15fcd6eb924320fdb8f3d8138aba9eae0c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:07:24 -0400
Subject: Add a one-character option for parameters

---
 ipalib/parameters.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'ipalib/parameters.py')

diff --git a/ipalib/parameters.py b/ipalib/parameters.py
index e805172a..d9e33f8a 100644
--- a/ipalib/parameters.py
+++ b/ipalib/parameters.py
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ class Param(ReadOnly):
 
     kwargs = (
         ('cli_name', str, None),
+        ('cli_short_name', str, None),
         ('label', callable, None),
         ('doc', str, ''),
         ('required', bool, True),
@@ -260,6 +261,13 @@ class Param(ReadOnly):
         self.name = check_name(name)
         self.nice = '%s(%r)' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.param_spec)
 
+        if 'cli_short_name' in kw:
+            if len(kw['cli_short_name']) != 1:
+                raise TypeError(
+                    '%s: cli_short_name can only be a single character: %s'
+                    % (self.nice, kw['cli_short_name'])
+                )
+
         # Add 'default' to self.kwargs and makes sure no unknown kw were given:
         assert type(self.type) is type
         if kw.get('multivalue', True):
-- 
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