Is there a way to pass a configuration to `plonecli` when creating an addon?

mekell · August 10, 2022, 8:07am

Is there a way to pass a configuration to plonecli when creating an addon?

When using mrbob directly you can pass the configuration in a file with --config (see below). Is this possible with plonecli?

cat <<EOF > myvariables.ini
[variables]
author.name = theAuthor
author.email = mail@domain.com
author.github.user = GitHubUsername
package.description = An add-on for Plone
package.git.init = True
package.git.autocommit: True
plone.version = 5.2.9
python.version = python3.9
vscode_support = False
EOF

mrbob --config myvariables.ini -O xyz.myaddon bobtemplates.plone:addon

mekell · August 11, 2022, 7:52am

github.com/plone/plonecli

Add "--config" option to plonecli "create" and "add" commands

opened 07:52AM - 11 Aug 22 UTC

me-kell

It would be very helpful if `plonecli` could accept a configuration file to spec…ify mr.bob variables. This could be easily be done in the functions `create` and `add` in `plonecli.cli.py` by adding a `click.option` and extending the list passed to `mrbobmain` as follows: https://github.com/plone/plonecli/blob/d49d7c79613ac3324e85da45c5a8daeb09cd0a1f/plonecli/cli.py#L77 ```python ... @click.option("-c", "--config", default=None, help="Configuration file to specify either [mr.bob] or [variables] sections.") ... def create(context, template, name, config): ... mrbob_args = [bobtemplate, "-O", name] if config is not None: mrbob_args.extend(["-c", config]) mrbobmain(mrbob_args) ``` https://github.com/plone/plonecli/blob/d49d7c79613ac3324e85da45c5a8daeb09cd0a1f/plonecli/cli.py#L97 ```python @click.option("-c", "--config", default=None, help="Configuration file to specify either [mr.bob] or [variables] sections.") ... def add(context, template, config): ... mrbob_args = [bobtemplate] if config is not None: mrbob_args.extend(["-c", config]) mrbobmain(mrbob_args) ```