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milc_interface

Public interface for MILC.

This is where the public interface for cli is kept. This allows us to reinstantiate MILC without having to recreate the cli object, as well as allowing us to have a well defined public API.

MILCInterface Objects

python class MILCInterface()

milc_options

python def milc_options(*, name: Optional[str] = None, author: Optional[str] = None, version: Optional[str] = None, logger: Optional[Logger] = None, env_prefix: Optional[str] = None) -> None

Configure MILC before the entrypoint runs.

Call this before cli() or any imports that reference cli. It may be called multiple times; each call updates only the supplied arguments.

Arguments:

  • name - The name of your program. Used for the config file path and other internal defaults.
  • author - The author string, used in the config file path on some platforms.
  • version - The version string reported by --version.
  • logger - A custom logger instance to use instead of MILC's default logger.
  • env_prefix - A string prefix that enables environment variable defaults. When set, each --flag can be configured via a <PREFIX>_<FLAG> environment variable.

subcommand_name

python @property def subcommand_name() -> Optional[str]

Returns the leaf CLI name of the active subcommand, e.g. 'add' for 'remote add'.

subcommand_path

python @property def subcommand_path() -> Optional[list]

Returns the full subcommand path as a list, e.g. ['remote', 'add'].

echo

python def echo(text: str, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None

Print colorized text to stdout.

ANSI color strings (such as {fg_blue}) will be converted into ANSI escape sequences, and the ANSI reset sequence will be added to all strings.

If args or *kwargs are passed they will be used to %-format the strings.

run

python def run(command: Sequence[str], capture_output: bool = True, combined_output: bool = False, text: bool = True, **kwargs: Any) -> Any

Run a command using subprocess.run, but using some different defaults.

Unlike subprocess.run you must supply a sequence of arguments. You can use shlex.split() to build this from a string.

The **kwargs arguments get passed directly to subprocess.run.

Arguments:

command A sequence where the first item is the command to run, and any remaining items are arguments to pass.

capture_output Set to False to have output written to the terminal instead of being available in the returned subprocess.CompletedProcess instance.

combined_output When true STDERR will be written to STDOUT. Equivalent to the shell construct 2>&1.

text Set to False to disable encoding and get bytes() from .stdout and .stderr.

Notes:

On msys2/cygwin (Windows with an MSYSTEM environment variable set), the command is automatically wrapped in a subshell. stdin is also defaulted to subprocess.DEVNULL because subprocess calls in that environment leave stdin in a broken state, which causes interactive features like cli.questions to stop working. Pass stdin= explicitly to override this default.

python def print_help(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None

Print a help message for the main program or subcommand, depending on context.

python def print_usage(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None

Print brief description of how the main program or subcommand is invoked, depending on context.

add_argument

python def add_argument(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None

Wrapper to add arguments and track whether they were passed on the command line.

acquire_lock

python def acquire_lock(blocking: bool = True) -> bool

Acquire the MILC lock for exclusive access to properties.

release_lock

python def release_lock() -> None

Release the MILC lock.

argument

python def argument(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Callable[[Callable[P, R]], Callable[P, R]]

Decorator to add an argument to a MILC command or subcommand.

save_config

python def save_config() -> None

Save the current configuration to the config file.

__call__

python def __call__() -> Any

Execute the entrypoint function.

entrypoint

python def entrypoint( description: str, deprecated: Optional[str] = None ) -> Callable[[Callable[P, R]], Callable[P, R]]

Decorator that marks the entrypoint used when a subcommand is not supplied.

Arguments:

description A one-line description to display in --help

deprecated Deprecation message. When set the subcommand will marked as deprecated and this message will be displayed in the help output.

prerun

python def prerun( *args: Any, **kwargs: Any ) -> Union[Callable[..., Any], Callable[[Callable[..., Any]], Callable[..., Any]]]

Decorator to run a function after initialization and before dispatch.

The decorated function is called with cli as the first argument. Any args/*kwargs passed to this decorator are forwarded directly to the decorated function at runtime.

subcommand

python def subcommand(description: str, hidden: bool = False, parent: Optional[Callable[..., Any]] = None, name: Optional[str] = None, **kwargs: Any) -> Callable[[Callable[P, R]], Callable[P, R]]

Decorator to register a subcommand.

Arguments:

description A one-line description to display in --help

hidden When True don't display this command in --help

parent The parent subcommand function. When provided, this subcommand is registered as a child of that subcommand.

name Override the CLI token for this subcommand.

add_spinner

python def add_spinner(name: str, spinner: Dict[str, Union[int, Sequence[str]]]) -> None

Adds a new spinner to the list of spinners.

A spinner is a dictionary with two keys:

interval
    An integer that sets how long (in ms) to wait between frames.

frames
    A list of frames for this spinner

spinner

python def spinner(text: str, *args: Any, spinner: Optional[Union[str, Dict[str, Union[int, Sequence[str]]]]] = None, animation: str = 'ellipsed', placement: str = 'left', color: str = 'blue', interval: int = -1, stream: Any = sys.stdout, enabled: bool = sys.stdout.isatty(), **kwargs: Any) -> Halo

Create a spinner object for showing activity to the user.

This uses halo https://github.com/ManrajGrover/halo behind the scenes, most of the arguments map to Halo objects 1:1.

There are 3 basic ways to use this:

  • Instantiating a spinner and then using .start() and .stop() on your object.
  • Using a context manager (with cli.spinner(...):)
  • Decorate a function (@cli.spinner(...))

Instantiating a spinner

```python spinner = cli.spinner(text='Loading', spinner='dots') spinner.start()

Do something here

spinner.stop() ```

Using a context manager

python with cli.spinner(text='Loading', spinner='dots'): # Do something here

Decorate a function

python @cli.spinner(text='Loading', spinner='dots') def long_running_function(): # Do something here

Arguments

text
    The text to display next to the spinner. ANSI color strings
    (such as {fg_blue}) will be converted into ANSI escape
    sequences, and the ANSI reset sequence will be added to the
    end of the string.

    If *args or **kwargs are passed they will be used to
    %-format the text.

spinner
    The name of the spinner to use. Available names are here:
    <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/cli-spinners/dac4fc6571059bb9e9bc204711e9dfe8f72e5c6f/spinners.json>

animation
    The animation to apply to the text if it doesn't fit the
    terminal. One of `ellipsed`, `bounce`, `marquee`.

placement
    Which side of the text to display the spinner on. One of
    `left`, `right`.

color
    Color of the spinner. One of `blue`, `grey`, `red`, `green`,
    `yellow`, `magenta`, `cyan`, `white`

interval
    How long in ms to wait between frames. Defaults to the spinner interval (recommended.)

stream
    Stream to write the output. Defaults to sys.stdout.

enabled
    Enable or disable the spinner. Defaults to `sys.stdout.isatty()`.