fix: awxkit help flags for detailed & general help

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Adrià Sala
2026-02-27 13:32:15 +01:00
committed by Adrià Sala
parent 670dfeed25
commit 51ed59c506
5 changed files with 220 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -80,6 +80,28 @@ class CLI(object):
def help(self):
return '--help' in self.argv or '-h' in self.argv
def _get_non_option_args(self, before_help=False):
"""Extract non-option arguments from argv, optionally only those before help flag."""
if before_help and self.help:
# Find position of help flag
help_pos = next((i for i, arg in enumerate(self.argv) if arg in ('--help', '-h')), len(self.argv))
args_to_check = self.argv[:help_pos]
else:
args_to_check = self.argv
return [arg for arg in args_to_check if not arg.startswith('-') and arg != 'awx']
def _is_main_help_request(self):
"""
Determine if help request is for main CLI (awx --help) vs subcommand (awx users create --help).
Returns True if this is a main CLI help request that should exit early.
"""
if not self.help:
return False
# If there are non-option arguments before help flag, this is subcommand help
return len(self._get_non_option_args(before_help=True)) == 0
def authenticate(self):
"""Configure the current session for authentication.
@@ -224,6 +246,16 @@ class CLI(object):
subparsers = self.subparsers[self.resource].add_subparsers(dest='action', metavar='action')
subparsers.required = True
# Add manual help handling for resource-level help
# since we disabled add_help=False for resource subparsers
if self.help:
# Check if this is resource-level help (no action specified)
non_option_args = self._get_non_option_args()
if len(non_option_args) == 1 and non_option_args[0] == self.resource:
# Only resource specified, no action - show resource-level help
self.subparsers[self.resource].print_help()
return
# parse the action from OPTIONS
parser = ResourceOptionsParser(self.v2, page, self.resource, subparsers)
if parser.deprecated:
@@ -232,6 +264,18 @@ class CLI(object):
description = colored(description, 'yellow')
self.subparsers[self.resource].description = description
# parse any action arguments FIRST before attempting to parse
if self.resource != 'settings':
for method in ('list', 'modify', 'create'):
if method in parser.parser.choices:
if method == 'list':
http_method = 'GET'
elif method == 'modify' and 'PUT' in parser.options:
http_method = 'PUT'
else:
http_method = 'POST'
parser.build_query_arguments(method, http_method)
if from_sphinx:
# Our Sphinx plugin runs `parse_action` for *every* available
# resource + action in the API so that it can generate usage
@@ -244,23 +288,15 @@ class CLI(object):
self.parser.parse_known_args(self.argv)[0]
except SystemExit:
pass
else:
self.parser.parse_known_args()[0]
# parse any action arguments
if self.resource != 'settings':
for method in ('list', 'modify', 'create'):
if method in parser.parser.choices:
if method == 'list':
http_method = 'GET'
elif method == 'modify' and 'PUT' in parser.options:
http_method = 'PUT'
else:
http_method = 'POST'
parser.build_query_arguments(method, http_method)
if from_sphinx:
parsed, extra = self.parser.parse_known_args(self.argv)
else:
# Try to parse to determine if help is requested for a specific action
try:
self.parser.parse_known_args()[0]
except SystemExit:
# This happens when required arguments are missing, which is expected behavior
# Let argparse handle it and show the appropriate help
raise
parsed, extra = self.parser.parse_known_args()
if extra and self.verbose:
@@ -313,6 +349,7 @@ class CLI(object):
self.argv = argv
self.parser = HelpfulArgumentParser(add_help=False)
self.parser.add_argument(
'-h',
'--help',
action='store_true',
help='prints usage information for the awx tool',
@@ -322,6 +359,13 @@ class CLI(object):
add_output_formatting_arguments(self.parser, env)
self.args = self.parser.parse_known_args(self.argv)[0]
# Early return for help to avoid server connection, but only for main CLI help
# Allow subcommand help (like 'awx users create --help') to continue processing
if self.help and self._is_main_help_request():
self.parser.print_help()
sys.exit(0)
self.verbose = self.get_config('verbose')
if self.verbose:
logging.basicConfig(level='DEBUG')

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@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class ResourceOptionsParser(object):
if method not in action_map:
continue
method = action_map[method]
parser = self.parser.add_parser(method, help='')
parser = self.parser.add_parser(method, help='', add_help=True)
if method == 'list':
parser.add_argument(
'--all',
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class ResourceOptionsParser(object):
if 'DELETE' in self.allowed_options:
allowed.append('delete')
for method in allowed:
parser = self.parser.add_parser(method, help='')
parser = self.parser.add_parser(method, help='', add_help=True)
self.parser.choices[method].add_argument(
'id', type=functools.partial(pk_or_name, self.v2, self.resource), help='the ID (or unique name) of the resource'
)

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@@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ def parse_resource(client, skip_deprecated=False):
if k in DEPRECATED_RESOURCES:
kwargs['aliases'] = [DEPRECATED_RESOURCES[k]]
client.subparsers[k] = subparsers.add_parser(k, help='', **kwargs)
# Disable automatic help handling for resource subparsers to prevent
# premature help display before action subparsers are built
client.subparsers[k] = subparsers.add_parser(k, help='', add_help=False, **kwargs)
resource = client.parser.parse_known_args()[0].resource
if resource in DEPRECATED_RESOURCES.values():