adding HTTPie group and argument from httpie-edgegrid

Hi,

I am working on the plugin httpie-edgegrid to add a --config parameter to httpie. Thus the user would be able to pass the location of the credentials file (original request here).

Thus I have added the following code:

import httpie.cli.definition as httpie_cli_definition

edgegrid_group = httpie_cli_definition.options.add_group("EdgeGrid")
edgegrid_group.add_argument(
    "--config",
    action='edgerc',
    default='~/.edgerc',
    help='.edgerc credentials file (defaults to ~/.edgerc)'
)
httpie_cli_definition.options.finalize()
httpie_cli_definition.parser = httpie_cli_definition.to_argparse(httpie_cli_definition.options)

But when I am issuing a simple httpie command, the parameter does not get recognized:

$ http --auth-type edgegrid -a afadencloud-example-01: --config ./test/sample_edgerc: :/contracts
usage:
    http [METHOD] URL [REQUEST_ITEM ...]

error:
    unrecognized arguments: --config

for more information:
    run 'http --help' or visit https://httpie.io/docs/cli

Httpie-edgegrid seems installed correctly:

$ httpie plugins list 
httpie-edgegrid (1.0.2)
  httpie_oauth1 (httpie.plugins.auth.v1)

From the documentation and looking at other httpie plugins, I have not seen even if what I am trying is feasible. Could you please help me out? Thanks 👍

Regards,

Roberto

[robertolopezlopez]

Hi @isidentical ,

That’s what I would call a great pythonic display 😃

It kind of works. The only problem I can see is that argparse._StoreAction is an internal class, so importing from httpie-edgegrid is not an easy task. What I have done is copying its __init__() implementation to my EdgeGridSetterAction, and then make it extend argparse.Action directly.

This bypass seems to be working, but I need to do more testing.

Thanks once again. I am closing this ticket again, and I hope this time for good 😉

Roberto

[robertolopezlopez]

Wow @isidentical , I would not have come up with such idea easily. Kudos for you 👍

Now it works locally. Hopefully we will release the new version soon - with this and other changes.

Regards,

Roberto