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Support usage line when running as kubectl plugin #2017

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nirs opened this issue Aug 16, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2018
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Support usage line when running as kubectl plugin #2017

nirs opened this issue Aug 16, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2018

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nirs commented Aug 16, 2023

When running as a kubectl plugin[1] we want the help text to look like a builtin
kubectl command. For example if we create a program kubectl-cobra:

$ cat main.go 
package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

func main() {
	root := &cobra.Command{
		Use: "kubectl cobra",
	}

	sub := &cobra.Command{
		Use: "subcmd",
		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
			fmt.Println("kubectl cobra subcmd")
		},
	}

	root.AddCommand(sub)
	root.Execute()
}

When we run it we get unwanted output:

$ kubectl cobra
Usage:
  kubectl [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  subcmd      

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for kubectl

Use "kubectl [command] --help" for more information about a command.

$ kubectl cobra subcmd -h
Usage:
  kubectl subcmd [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for subcmd

The wanted output:

$ kubectl cobra
Usage:
  kubectl cobra [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  subcmd      

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for kubectl cobra

Use "kubectl cobra [command] --help" for more information about a command.

$ kubectl cobra subcmd -h
Usage:
  kubectl cobra subcmd [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for subcmd

The problem is we don't have a way to set the command name, it is guessed
best on the first word of the Use field. SetUsageFunc() and SetUsageTemplate()
are not helpful in fixing this issue since it require re-implementing too much
logic and template which a user really don't want to re-implement.

Maybe we need SetNameFunc(), or Name field?

Workaround

If can get the wanted output using:

	root := &cobra.Command{
		Use: "kubectl\u00A0cobra",
	}

It works for help output, but I did not check if this affects shell completion.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/extend-kubectl/kubectl-plugins/

nirs added a commit to nirs/kubectl-ramen that referenced this issue Aug 16, 2023
Use "kubectl\u00A0ramen" so the command name is displayed correctly:

    $ kubectl ramen clusterset -h
    Managed clustersets

    Usage:
      kubectl ramen clusterset [flags]
      kubectl ramen clusterset [command]

    Available Commands:
      add-cfg     Add a clusterset from kubeconfigs files
      add-env     Add a clusterset from drenv environment file
      remove      Remove a clusterset

    Flags:
      -h, --help   help for clusterset

    Global Flags:
      -v, --verbose   be more verbose

    Use "kubectl ramen clusterset [command] --help" for more information about a command.

[1] spf13/cobra#2017
nirs added a commit to nirs/cobra that referenced this issue Aug 16, 2023
In this case the executable is `kubectl-plugin`, but we run it as:

    kubectl plugin

And the help text should reflect the actual usage of the command.

To create a plugin create the root command like:

    rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
        CommandName: "kubectl plugin",
    }

When `CommandName` is set, Name() use it as is instead of guessing the
command name from the `Use` line.

Issues:
- Need to update the docs.

Fixes: spf13#2017
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>
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jpmcb commented Aug 19, 2023

Interesting.

Thanks for opening an issue on this. Curious: is there a tracking issue for this in the kubectl SIG or kubernetes repo somewhere?

Overall, I think it makes sense. In the past, like you mentioned, we would typically recommend people use SetUsageFunc or SetHelpFunc but yeah, that's pretty gnarly usage to have to do.

nirs added a commit to nirs/cobra that referenced this issue Sep 8, 2023
In this case the executable is `kubectl-plugin`, but we run it as:

    kubectl plugin

And the help text should reflect the actual usage of the command.

To create a plugin, add the cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation:

    rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
        Use: "plugin",
        Annotations: map[string]string{
            cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation: "kubectl plugin",
        }
    }

Internally this change modifies CommandPath() for the root command to
return the command display name instead of the command name. This is
used for error messages, help text generation, and completions.

CommandPath() is expected to have spaces and code using it already
handle spaces (e.g replacing with _), so hopefully this does not break
anything.

Fixes: spf13#2017
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>
nirs added a commit to nirs/cobra that referenced this issue Sep 8, 2023
In this case the executable is `kubectl-plugin`, but we run it as:

    kubectl plugin

And the help text should reflect the actual usage of the command.

To create a plugin, add the cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation:

    rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
        Use: "plugin",
        Annotations: map[string]string{
            cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation: "kubectl plugin",
        }
    }

Internally this change modifies CommandPath() for the root command to
return the command display name instead of the command name. This is
used for error messages, help text generation, and completions.

CommandPath() is expected to have spaces and code using it already
handle spaces (e.g replacing with _), so hopefully this does not break
anything.

Fixes: spf13#2017
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>
nirs added a commit to nirs/cobra that referenced this issue Sep 8, 2023
In this case the executable is `kubectl-plugin`, but we run it as:

    kubectl plugin

And the help text should reflect the actual usage of the command.

To create a plugin, add the cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation:

    rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
        Use: "plugin",
        Annotations: map[string]string{
            cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation: "kubectl plugin",
        }
    }

Internally this change modifies CommandPath() for the root command to
return the command display name instead of the command name. This is
used for error messages, help text generation, and completions.

CommandPath() is expected to have spaces and code using it already
handle spaces (e.g replacing with _), so hopefully this does not break
anything.

Fixes: spf13#2017
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>
marckhouzam pushed a commit that referenced this issue Nov 2, 2023
In this case the executable is `kubectl-plugin`, but we run it as:

    kubectl plugin

And the help text should reflect the actual usage of the command.

To create a plugin, add the cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation:

    rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
        Use: "plugin",
        Annotations: map[string]string{
            cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation: "kubectl plugin",
        }
    }

Internally this change modifies CommandPath() for the root command to
return the command display name instead of the command name. This is
used for error messages, help text generation, and completions.

CommandPath() is expected to have spaces and code using it already
handle spaces (e.g replacing with _), so hopefully this does not break
anything.

Fixes: #2017

Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>
Dav-14 added a commit to formancehq/cobra that referenced this issue Mar 15, 2024
* Create unit test illustrating unknown flag bug (spf13#1854)

Created a unit test that tests the unknown flag
error message when the unknown flag is located
in different arg positions.

* Update stale.yml (spf13#1863)

* fix: force ForEach-Object to return array in pwsh completion (spf13#1850)

Fixes spf13#1847

* Makefile: add target richtest (spf13#1865)

Don't require contributors to install richgo but keep it as an option and for CI

* build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.2.0 to 3.3.1 (spf13#1851)

Bumps [golangci/golangci-lint-action](https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint-action) from 3.2.0 to 3.3.1.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint-action/releases)
- [Commits](golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3.2.0...v3.3.1)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: golangci/golangci-lint-action
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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* Update kubescape org (spf13#1874)

Signed-off-by: David Wertenteil <[email protected]>

* ci: deprecate go 1.15 (spf13#1866)

Remove testing for go 1.15 to allow CI to pass, but don't force projects to upgrade.

* fix: conflict import name with variable (spf13#1879)

`template` is an import in `cobra.go` file and also used as a variable
name, which masks the library in the scope of that function.

* Update badge route (spf13#1884)

Based on
badges/shields#8671

* fix: func name in doc strings (spf13#1885)

Corrected the function name at the start of doc strings, as per the convention
outlined in official go documentation: https://go.dev/blog/godoc

* completions: do not detect arguments with dash as 2nd char as flag (spf13#1817)

Fixes spf13#1816

Previously, arguments with a dash as the second character (e.g., 1-ff00:0:1)
were detected as a flag by mistake. This resulted in auto completion misbehaving
if such an argument was last in the argument list during invocation.

* build(deps): bump github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap (spf13#1872)

* Add documentation about disabling completion descriptions (spf13#1901)

* Improve MarkFlagsMutuallyExclusive example in User Guide (spf13#1904)

* Update shell_completions.md (spf13#1907)

align documentation with the code : completions.go:452

* build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0 (spf13#1902)

* Removes stale bot from GitHub action (spf13#1908)

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* Add keeporder to shell completion (spf13#1903)

This allows programs to request the shell to maintain the order of completions that was returned by the program

* Add support for PowerShell 7.2+ (spf13#1916)

PowerShell 7.2 has changed the way arguments are passed to executables.
This was originally an experimental feature in 7.2, but as of 7.3 it is
built-in. A simple "" is now sufficient for passing empty arguments, no
back-tick escaping is required.

Fixes spf13#1849

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* ci: deprecate go 1.16 (spf13#1926)

* ci: test Golang 1.20 (spf13#1925)

* update copyright year (spf13#1927)

* Update projects_using_cobra.md (spf13#1932)

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* Document suggested layout for subcommands (spf13#1930)

Signed-off-by: Luiz Carvalho <[email protected]>

* Allow sourcing zsh completion script (spf13#1917)

Although it is not the recommended approach, sourcing a completion
script is the simplest way to get people to try using shell completion.
Not allowing it for zsh has turned out to complicate shell completion
adoption.  Further, many tools modify the zsh script to allow sourcing.

This commit allows sourcing of the zsh completion script.

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* Update main image to better handle dark background (spf13#1883)

Fixes spf13#1880

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* Fix typo in fish completions (spf13#1945)

* build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 (spf13#1971)

* Fix grammar: 'allows to' (spf13#1978)

The use in generated bash completion files is getting flagged by
Lintian (the Debian package linting tool).

Signed-off-by: Taavi Väänänen <[email protected]>

* test: make fish_completions_test more robust (spf13#1980)

Use temporary files instead of assuming the current directory is
writable. Also, if creating a temporary file still returns an error,
prevent the test from failing silently by replacing `log.Fatal` with
`t.Fatal`.

* powershell: escape variable with curly brackets (spf13#1960)

This fixes an issue with program names that include a dot, in our case
`podman.exe`. This was caused by the change in commit 6ba7ebb.

Fixes spf13#1853

Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <[email protected]>

* build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 (spf13#1976)

* Move documentation sources to site/content (spf13#1428)

* Add 'one required flag' group (spf13#1952)

* golangci: enable 'unused' and disable deprecated replaced by it (spf13#1983)

* doc: fix typo, Deperecated -> Deprecated (spf13#2000)

* minor corrections to unit tests (spf13#2003)

* build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.6.0 to 3.7.0 (spf13#2021)

* command: temporarily disable G602 due to securego/gosec#1005 (spf13#2022)

* ci: test golang 1.21 (spf13#2024)

* Customizable error message prefix (spf13#2023)

* feat: add getters for flag completions (spf13#1943)

* Add notes to doc on preRun and postRun condition (spf13#2041)

* build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 3 to 4 (spf13#1934)

* build(deps): bump github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 (spf13#2047)

* Allow running persistent run hooks of all parents (spf13#2044)

Currently, only one of the persistent pre-runs and post-runs is executed.
It is always the first one found in the parents chain, starting at this command.
Expected behavior is to execute all parents' persistent pre-runs and post-runs.

Dependent projects implemented various workarounds for this:
- manually building persistent hook chains (in every hook).
- applying some kind of monkey-patching on top of Cobra.

This change eliminates the necessity for such workarounds
by allowing to set a global variable EnableTraverseRunHooks.

Tickets:
- spf13#216
- spf13#252

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* Fix linter errors (spf13#2052)

When using golangci-lint v1.55.0 some new errors were being reported.

Signed-off-by: Marc Khouzam <[email protected]>

* Don't complete --help flag when flag parsing disabled (spf13#2061)

Fixes spf13#2060

When a command sets `DisableFlagParsing = true` it requests the
responsibility of doing all the flag parsing. Therefore even the
`--help/-f/--version/-v` flags should not be automatically completed
by Cobra in such a case.

Without this change the `--help/-h/--version/-v` flags can end up being
completed twice for plugins: one time from cobra and one time from the
plugin (which has set `DisableFlagParsing = true`).

Signed-off-by: Marc Khouzam <[email protected]>

* Add tests for flag completion registration (spf13#2053)

Different problems have been reported about flag completion registration.
These two tests are the cases that were not being verified but had been
mentioned as problematic.

Ref:
- spf13#1320
- spf13#1438 (comment)

Signed-off-by: Marc Khouzam <[email protected]>

* Replace all non-alphanumerics in active help env var program prefix (spf13#1940)

* Replace all non-alphanumerics in active help env var program prefix

There are other characters besides the dash that are fine in program
names, but are problematic in environment variable names. These include
(but are not limited to) period, space, and non-ASCII letters.

* Another change in docs to mention non-ASCII-alphanumeric instead of just dash

* build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (spf13#2028)

* Support usage as plugin for tools like kubectl (spf13#2018)

In this case the executable is `kubectl-plugin`, but we run it as:

    kubectl plugin

And the help text should reflect the actual usage of the command.

To create a plugin, add the cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation:

    rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
        Use: "plugin",
        Annotations: map[string]string{
            cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation: "kubectl plugin",
        }
    }

Internally this change modifies CommandPath() for the root command to
return the command display name instead of the command name. This is
used for error messages, help text generation, and completions.

CommandPath() is expected to have spaces and code using it already
handle spaces (e.g replacing with _), so hopefully this does not break
anything.

Fixes: spf13#2017

Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>

* Improve API to get flag completion function (spf13#2063)

The new API is simpler and matches the `c.RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()`
API.  By removing the global function `GetFlagCompletion()` we are more
future proof if we ever move from a global map of flag completion
functions to something associated with the command.

The commit also makes this API work with persistent flags by using
`c.Flag(flagName)` instead of `c.Flags().Lookup(flagName)`.

The commit also adds unit tests.

Signed-off-by: Marc Khouzam <[email protected]>

* feat: expose GetCompletions (was getCompletions)

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