Fabric-taskset

Fabric has class-based tasks but they are limited: Task class represents a single task.

This module make it possible to have class-based Fabric task sets.

Installation

pip install fabric-taskset

Usage

TaskSet is a class that can expose its methods as Fabric tasks.

Example:

# fabfile.py
from fabric.api import local
from taskset import TaskSet, task_method

class SayBase(TaskSet):
    def say(self, what):
        raise NotImplementedError()

    @task_method(default=True, alias='hi')
    def hello(self):
        self.say('hello')

    @task_method
    def bye(self):
        self.say('goodbye')

class EchoSay(SayBase):
    def say(self, what):
        local('echo ' + what)

say = EchoSay().expose_as_module('say')

and then:

$ fab -l
Available commands:

    say
    say.bye
    say.hello
    say.hi

$ fab say.hi
hello

taskset.task_method is a decorator declaring the wrapped method to be task. It acceps the same arguments as fabric.decorators.task so use it on methods just like fabric's decorator is used on functions.

You can also create an "on-disk" Python module and populate it with tasks:

# my_lib/say.py
from taskset import TaskSet, task_method

class SayBase(TaskSet):
    def say(self, what):
        raise NotImplementedError()

    @task_method(default=True, alias='hi')
    def hello(self):
        self.say('hello')

class EchoSay(SayBase):
    def say(self, what):
        local('echo ' + what)

instance = EchoSay()
instance.expose_to_current_module()

# fabfile.py
from mylib import say

Acknowledgements

https://github.com/ramusus/fabriclassed is a very similar app. At the time of writing it is focused on old-style Fabric tasks and has a small deployment framework included.

In order to feed my NIH syndrome I create Fabric-taskset which exposes new-style Fabric tasks, provides slightly different API and doesn't have extra goodies.

This library then evolved to support exposing tasks without creating dummy on-disk modules (thanks to Denis Untevskiy).