Programatically added subcommands don't appear in help

When I add my commands like this:

subcommands = {
    TransformCommand.class,
    ValidateCommand.class
}

This shows the help as it should be:

Commands:
  transform  Transforms ...
  validate   Validates ...

However, when I add them like this:

        commandLine.addSubcommand("transform", new TransformCommand());
        commandLine.addSubcommand("validate", new ValidateCommand());

Nothing appears in help, and to make things very ackward, the commands actually work when I call them, they are just not appearing in the help.

Am I missing something?

[remkop]

Glad to hear that!

By the way, since you are writing an application with subcommands you may be interested in the new @ParentCommand annotation that will be in the upcoming 2.2 release (hopefully end of this week).

For details, see https://github.com/remkop/picocli/wiki/Manual-(2.2.0-SNAPSHOT)#code-parentcommand-code-annotation

[vromero]

Actually I found my mistake while writing it. I was passing this instead of the actual command line when printing the help. That is why only when added as annotation worked.

Apologies for the unnecessary noise and THANKS! for the absolutely great piece of software. Would add a star now but already did!