Introduce argparse based argument parsing with getopt compatibility.

Add a shared module intended to handler arguments parsing. Expose
methods that wrap argparse accepting list of named arguments to treat
as strings, booleans and integers respectively. This is purposefully
designed as drop-in for the style used in the generateconfs cli.

Also implement a getopt replacement. This parses getopt strings in
order to build up known arguments then calls the previously defined
shared module - in this way the new module is also a drop-in for any
callsite using getopt (e.g. createuser).

Support both the naming of arguments and help text. Additionally
provide a function able to break up pre-existing usage strings used
with relatively few changes can be re-used for new-style arguments.

Author: albu-diku

mig/shared/minimist.py

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+import argparse
+
+
+_EMPTY_DICT = {}
+_NO_DEFAULT = object()
+_POSITIONAL_MARKER = '__args__'
+
+
+class GetoptCompatNamespace(argparse.Namespace):
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return iter(("-%s" % (k,), v) for k, v in self.__dict__.items() if k != _POSITIONAL_MARKER)
+
+
+def _arg_name_to_flag(arg_name, is_getopt):
+    if is_getopt:
+        flag_prefix = "-"
+    else:
+        flag_prefix = "--"
+    return ''.join((flag_prefix, arg_name))
+
+
+def _arg_name_to_default(arg_name, _defaults):
+    try:
+        return _defaults[arg_name]
+    except KeyError:
+        return None
+
+
+def minimist(prog, description, strings=[], booleans=[], integers=[],
+             help_by_argument=_EMPTY_DICT, name_by_argument=_EMPTY_DICT,
+             is_getopt=False, use_positional=False, _defaults=None):
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog, allow_abbrev=False)
+
+    if _defaults is None:
+        _defaults = {}
+
+    for arg_name in booleans:
+        arg_flag = _arg_name_to_flag(arg_name, is_getopt)
+        parser.add_argument(arg_flag, action='store_true',
+                            help=help_by_argument.get(arg_name, None))
+
+    for arg_name in strings:
+        if is_getopt:
+            arg_fallback = argparse.SUPPRESS
+        else:
+            arg_fallback = None
+        arg_default = _defaults.get(arg_name, arg_fallback)
+        arg_flag = _arg_name_to_flag(arg_name, is_getopt)
+        parser.add_argument(arg_flag, default=arg_default,
+                            metavar=name_by_argument.get(arg_name),
+                            help=help_by_argument.get(arg_name, None))
+
+    for arg_name in integers:
+        arg_flag = _arg_name_to_flag(arg_name, is_getopt)
+        parser.add_argument(arg_flag, type=int,
+                            metavar=name_by_argument.get(arg_name),
+                            help=help_by_argument.get(arg_name, None))
+
+    if is_getopt or use_positional:
+        if is_getopt:
+            arg_fallback = argparse.SUPPRESS
+        else:
+            arg_fallback = None
+        parser.add_argument(_POSITIONAL_MARKER, nargs='*',
+                            default=arg_fallback)
+
+    return parser
+
+
+def _parse_getopt_string(getopt_string):
+    split_args = getopt_string.split(':')
+
+    seen_string_args = set()
+
+    boolean_arguments = []
+    string_arguments = []
+
+    # handle corner case of no arguments with value i.e. no separator in input
+    # FIXME: ...
+
+    def add_string_argument(arg):
+        if arg == 'h':  # exclude -h which is handled internally by argparse
+            return
+        string_arguments.append(arg)
+
+    index_of_last_entry = len(split_args) - 1
+
+    for index, entry in enumerate(split_args):
+        entry_length = len(entry)
+        if entry_length == 1:
+            if index == index_of_last_entry:
+                boolean_arguments.append(entry)
+            else:
+                add_string_argument(entry)
+        elif entry_length > 1:
+            entry_arguments = list(entry)
+            # the last item is a string entry
+            add_string_argument(entry_arguments.pop())
+            # the other items must not have arguments i.e. are booleans
+            for item in entry_arguments:
+                if item == 'h':
+                    continue
+                boolean_arguments.append(item)
+        else:
+            continue
+
+    return {
+        'booleans': boolean_arguments,
+        'integers': [],
+        'strings': string_arguments,
+    }
+
+
+def _minimist_from_getopt(prog, description, getopt_string, help_by_argument, name_by_argument):
+    return minimist(prog, description, is_getopt=True,
+                    help_by_argument=help_by_argument, name_by_argument=name_by_argument,
+                    **_parse_getopt_string(getopt_string))
+
+
+def break_apart_legacy_usage(value):
+    lines = value.split('\n')
+    line_parts = (line.split(':') for line in lines if line)
+    return dict(((k.lstrip()[1:], v.strip()) for k, v in line_parts))
+
+
+def parse_getopt_args(argv, getopt_string, prog="", description="", help_by_argument=_EMPTY_DICT, name_by_argument=_EMPTY_DICT):
+    arg_parser = _minimist_from_getopt(
+        prog, description, getopt_string,
+        help_by_argument=help_by_argument, name_by_argument=name_by_argument)
+    opts = arg_parser.parse_args(argv, namespace=GetoptCompatNamespace())
+    try:
+        args = getattr(opts, _POSITIONAL_MARKER)
+    except AttributeError:
+        args = []
+    return (opts, args)

tests/test_mig_shared_minimist.py

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+from __future__ import print_function
+import sys
+
+from tests.support import MigTestCase, testmain
+
+from mig.shared.minimist import parse_getopt_args
+
+
+class TestMigSharedMinimist__getopt(MigTestCase):
+    def test_arbitrary_arguments(self):
+        (opts, args) = parse_getopt_args(["arg1", "arg2", "arg3"], "")
+
+        self.assertEqual(dict(opts), {})
+        self.assertEqual(args, ['arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'])
+
+    def test_boolean_arguments(self):
+        (opts, args) = parse_getopt_args(["-a", "-b", "-c"], "x:abcy:")
+
+        self.assertEqual(dict(opts), {
+            '-a': True,
+            '-b': True,
+            '-c': True,
+        })
+        self.assertEqual(args, [])
+
+
+    def test_final_argument_is_boolean(self):
+        (opts, args) = parse_getopt_args(["-b", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3"], "o:b")
+
+        self.assertEqual(dict(opts), {
+            '-b': True,
+        })
+        self.assertEqual(args, ['arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'])
+
+    def test_single_argument_is_boolean(self):
+        (opts, args) = parse_getopt_args(["-b", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3"], "b")
+
+        self.assertEqual(dict(opts), {
+            '-b': True,
+        })
+        self.assertEqual(args, ['arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'])
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    testmain()