Cobra allows for aliases to be defined for a command, but only allows these
to be defined at the same level (for example, `docker image ls` as alias for
`docker image list`). Our CLI has some commands that are available both as a
top-level shorthand as well as `docker <object> <verb>` subcommands. For example,
`docker ps` is a shorthand for `docker container ps` / `docker container ls`.
This patch introduces a custom "aliases" annotation that can be used to print
all available aliases for a command. While this requires these aliases to be
defined manually, in practice the list of aliases rarely changes, so maintenance
should be minimal.
As a convention, we could consider the first command in this list to be the
canonical command, so that we can use this information to add redirects in
our documentation in future.
Before this patch:
docker images --help
Usage: docker images [OPTIONS] [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]
List images
Options:
-a, --all Show all images (default hides intermediate images)
...
With this patch:
docker images --help
Usage: docker images [OPTIONS] [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]
List images
Aliases:
docker image ls, docker image list, docker images
Options:
-a, --all Show all images (default hides intermediate images)
...
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
The default output for Cobra aliases only shows the subcommand as alias, which
is not very intuitive. This patch changes the output to print the full command
as it would be called by the user.
Note that there's still some improvements to be made; due to how aliases must be
set-up in Cobra, aliases at different "levels" are still not shown. So for example,
`docker ps --help` will not show `docker container ps` as alias, and vice-versa.
This will require additional changes, and can possibly be resolved using custom
metadata/annotations.
Before this patch:
docker container ls --help
Usage: docker container ls [OPTIONS]
List containers
Aliases:
ls, ps, list
After this patch:
docker container ls --help
Usage: docker container ls [OPTIONS]
List containers
Aliases:
docker container ls, docker container ps, docker container list
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
- The placement of the vendor is now in the end of the line.
- A '*' is now added as suffix of plugins' top level commands.
Signed-off-by: Ulysses Souza <ulysses.souza@docker.com>
To do this we add a stub `cobra.Command` for each installed plugin (only when
invoking `help`, not for normal running).
This requires a function to list all available plugins so that is added here.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@docker.com>
... and expose. I would like to use this from another site.
This implies also moving (and exposing) the `visitAll` helper.
Unit test them while I'm here.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@docker.com>
Sebastiaan van Stijn
Ulysses Souza
Ian Campbell