[Question] Why are my commands appearing as subcommands?

Hello,

I’m wondering why the commands I’ve defined, appear as subcommands, instead of “main” commands.

For example, I’ve defined something like the following:

    @expose(
        help='some help',
        aliases=['alias'],
        arguments=[
            (['args'], dict(action='store', nargs='*')),
        ]
    )
    def some_command(self):
        pass

And, when I execute the application for showing the help, this is how appears:

usage: app [-h] [--debug] [--quiet] {some_command, alias} ...

An app

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --debug               toggle debug output
  --quiet               suppress all output

sub-commands:
  {some_command, alias}
    some_command (alias) some help

The command invocation works fine; it’s just that I was expecting to make the commands appear as in the quickstart.

Many thanks for your work.

[akhilman]

Add this to your controller’s Meta: stacked_on = ‘base’     stacked_type = ‘embedded’

More info here: http://builtoncement.com/2.10/dev/controllers.html#addi tional-controllers-and-namespaces

On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 09:51 -0800, Julen Pardo wrote:

Hello,

I’m wondering why the commands I’ve defined, appear as subcommands, instead of “main” commands.

For example, I’ve defined something like the following:

    @expose(
        help='some help',
        aliases=['alias'],
        arguments=[
            (['args'], dict(action='store', nargs='*')),
        ]
    )
    def some_command(self):
        pass

And, when I execute the application for showing the help, this is how appears:

usage: app [-h] [--debug] [--quiet] {some_command, alias} ...

An app

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --debug               toggle debug output
  --quiet               suppress all output

sub-commands:
  {some_command, alias}
    some_command (alias) some help

The command invocation works fine; it’s just that I was expecting to make the commands appear as in the [quickstart](http://builtoncement. com/2.10/dev/quickstart.html).

Many thanks for your work.

[derks]

@julenpardo I think I understand now. You are asking why the output of ‘–help’ is different than the QuickStart example? All of the dicumentIon currently references use of ‘CementBaseController’ which will look different. That said, You do want to use ArgparseController because it will be the standard moving forward.

If you need to customize the output of how --help looks you might want to research how it would be done with Argeparse directly… then I could help integrate that into Cement. CementBaseController is very hacky… where ArgparseController uses proper ArgparseController mechanisms for creating subcommabds via subparsers.