Local commands unsupported in fabric >=2?

Do you have a local example?

Is local support totally unsupported since version 1 fabric? There’s no good docs by example, and the methods / support is non-existent now.

fab -f fabfile.py  log_local
No idea what 'log_local' is!

python

from fabric import Connection
from invoke import task, Exit
from invocations.console import confirm

# pip install invocations

@task
def log_local(c):
    """[Run ls -la on localhost]

    Arguments:
        c {[Connection]} -- [Explicit initial context argument, whose value will be a Connection object at runtime.]
    """
    c.local('ls -la')

This was following example here https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues/1747

[christian-intra2net]

You can ensure c is always a fabric Connection by giving a default host name to task():

@task(host='localhost')
def test(c):
    c.local('hostname')
    c.run('hostname')

But I also wonder why the author chose this behaviour (changing the type of c depending on host value). I would much prefer if c was always a fabric Connection, with c.local == c.run if no host is given.

[JamesRamm]

Hey @jondkelley @thrownblown

tldr; use run instead of local and don’t specify the --hosts flag

local commands are supported but now there is no difference between run and local. If you don’t specify --hosts, then the Connection object falls back to being a regular Context object from invoke, and run works locally

Try this fabfile:

@task
def test(c):
  print(c)
  c.run("echo HELLO")

Running fab test will print ‘HELLO’, plus c, which will be a Context object.

Running fab --hosts=<host connection string> test will print ‘HELLO’ plus c which will be a Connection object