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diff --git a/doc/development/option_parsing.txt b/doc/development/option_parsing.txt index 091f43cdd..642b9a36c 100644 --- a/doc/development/option_parsing.txt +++ b/doc/development/option_parsing.txt @@ -174,28 +174,31 @@ The normal implementation pattern is this: #. Define all of your subcommands as children of :class:`Bcfg2.Options.Subcommand`. -#. Define a :class:`Bcfg2.Options.CommandRegistry` object that will be +#. Create a :class:`Bcfg2.Options.CommandRegistry` object that will be used to register all of the commands. Registering a command collect its options and adds it as a :class:`Bcfg2.Options.Subparser` option group to the main option parser. #. Register your commands with - :func:`Bcfg2.Options.register_commands`, parse options, and run. + :func:`Bcfg2.Options.register_commands`. +#. Add options from the + :attr:`Bcfg2.Options.CommandRegistry.command_options` + attribute to the option parser. +#. Parse options, and run. :mod:`Bcfg2.Server.Admin` provides a fairly simple implementation, -where the CLI class is itself the command registry: +where the CLI class subclasses the command registry: .. code-block:: python class CLI(Bcfg2.Options.CommandRegistry): def __init__(self): Bcfg2.Options.CommandRegistry.__init__(self) - Bcfg2.Options.register_commands(self.__class__, - globals().values(), - parent=AdminCmd) + self.register_commands(globals().values(), parent=AdminCmd) parser = Bcfg2.Options.get_parser( description="Manage a running Bcfg2 server", components=[self]) + parser.add_options(self.subcommand_options) parser.parse() In this case, commands are collected from amongst all global variables |