ArgumentTasks

This library helps you to call easily defined tasks for your project, all you need to do is create a file for your tasks and a yml with their description.

Example

1. Let's say you want to create a task for your project that welcomes people to your app, in this case, 'ArgumentTasks lib'. To do that you need to import Interface class from the library and instantiate it as follows:

from argument_tasks import Interface
from example_data import methods

SOURCE_YML_FILE = open("example_data/tasks.yml", "r")

Interface(SOURCE_YML_FILE, methods).run()

As you can see, we have defined a folder example_data that contains a yml file where the tasks are defined, and a methods file where the task's code is defined. Finally, the output for the code above is the text the hello_arg method from the methods file is printing.

Hello from ArgumentTasks lib!

Now, the methods defined are normal functions that must contain the parameter **kwargs. Bellow is the methods file code imported in the example.

def hello_arg(**kwargs):
    print("Hello from ArgumentTasks lib!")

There's also a necessary yml file in the example called tasks.yml where the tasks are defined. Below is the file code used in the example.

hello:
  action: hello_arg
  values: []

As you can see the file has a certain structure, here is an example of it.

<command_name: str>:
    action: <method_name: str>
    values:
        -
            name: <arg_name: str>
            type: <arg_type: python_class>
            required: <whether_arg_is_required: bool>
            description: <arg_description: str>

For calling the file you should use:

python3 file.py <command_name> --<argument_name> <argument_value> --<argument_name>=<argument_value>

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