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+# Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Aaron Bentley and Panometrics, Inc.
+# Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
+# Thomas Gerigk <tgerigk@gmx.de>
+# W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+import libbe
+import libbe.command
+import libbe.command.util
+
+TOPICS = {}
+
+class Help (libbe.command.Command):
+ """Print help for given command or topic
+
+ >>> import sys
+ >>> import libbe.bugdir
+ >>> io = libbe.command.StringInputOutput()
+ >>> io.stdout = sys.stdout
+ >>> ui = libbe.command.UserInterface(io=io)
+ >>> cmd = Help()
+
+ >>> ret = ui.run(cmd, args=['help'])
+ usage: be help [options] [TOPIC]
+ <BLANKLINE>
+ Options:
+ -h, --help Print a help message.
+ <BLANKLINE>
+ --complete Print a list of possible completions.
+ <BLANKLINE>
+ <BLANKLINE>
+ Print help for specified command/topic or list of all commands.
+ """
+ name = 'help'
+
+ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+ libbe.command.Command.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+ self.args.extend([
+ libbe.command.Argument(
+ name='topic', metavar='TOPIC', default=None,
+ optional=True,
+ completion_callback=self.complete_topic)
+ ])
+
+ def _run(self, **params):
+ if params['topic'] == None:
+ if hasattr(self.ui, 'help'):
+ print >> self.stdout, self.ui.help().rstrip('\n')
+ elif params['topic'] in libbe.command.commands():
+ module = libbe.command.get_command(params['topic'])
+ Class = libbe.command.get_command_class(module,params['topic'])
+ c = Class(ui=self.ui)
+ print >> self.stdout, c.help().rstrip('\n')
+ elif params['topic'] in TOPICS:
+ print >> self.stdout, TOPICS[params['topic']].rstrip('\n')
+ else:
+ raise libbe.command.UserError(
+ '"%s" is neither a command nor topic' % params['topic'])
+ return 0
+
+ def _long_help(self):
+ return """
+Print help for specified command/topic or list of all commands.
+"""
+
+ def complete_topic(self, command, argument, fragment=None):
+ commands = libbe.command.util.complete_command()
+ topics = sorted(TOPICS.keys())
+ return commands + topics