Fixing "juju help commands"

[Anastasia Macmood]

Tim

If you are adding the ability to specify commands as "hidden", we may
greatly benefit from specifying commands as "blockable" too....

Sincerely Yours,

Anastasia

On 24/05/16 14:19, Tim Penhey wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> More from the "let's fix the output" school of thought.
>
> One thing that has bugged me about 'juju help commands' was the
> repeated mentions of "alias for <blah>".
>
> I propose that we don't show aliases by default, and allow the user to
> task for them.
>
> Also, the supercommand describe commands method was written before I
> knew about the tabular output, so some code could be cleaned up there.
>
> Proposal:
>
> juju help commands
>   - shows the commands that are neither aliases, nor hidden
> juju help commands --alias
>   - shows either just the aliases, or everything including aliases
> juju help commands --all
>   - shows basic commands, aliases and hidden commands.
>
> I'd like to add the ability to say a command is hidden so it doesn't
> show up in the commands list. The purpose for these could be debugging
> assisting type functions, like "dump-model" or "debug-controller" (two
> commands that don't yet exist).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Tim
>