Passing data for Default command

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It looks like you can’t set Data property for “default” command.

Describe the solution you’d like Either use Data defined in config for same type of command or ability to specify context for the “default” command, same as regular command.

Additional context

Example code:

var externalDataObject = new { AdditionalContext = "myContext" };

var app = new CommandApp();
app.SetDefaultCommand<MyCommand>();
app.Configure(config =>
{
    config
        .AddCommand<MyCommand>("myCommand")
        .WithData(externalDataObject);

    config
        .AddCommand<MyAnotherCommand>("myAnotherCommand");
});

If you call the app like myApp myCommand --myArg xxx then the MyCommand will be called and “context” will have externalDataObject value, but if you call it like myapp --myArg xxx then the MyCommand will be called but “context” will not have externalDataObject value.

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I just submitted #1091 to address this issue.

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My current workaround is to set it through reflection.

Replying to myself: I just realized that I can set the description of the default command by simply adding a [Description] attribute on MyCommand class. 🤦‍♂️