classyclick 0.3.1

Class-based definitions of click commands

$ 🎩click✨_, classyclick

Class-based definitions of click commands

pip install classyclick

A Simple Example

import click
import classyclick


@classyclick.command()
class Hello:
    """Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times."""

    name: str = classyclick.option(prompt='Your name', help='The person to greet.')
    count: int = classyclick.option(default=1, help='Number of greetings.')

    def __call__(self):
        for _ in range(self.count):
            click.echo(f'Hello, {self.name}!')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # not really instantiating (old) Hello class but calling the new click-wrapping "Hello" function
    Hello()

$ python hello.py --count=3
Your name: classyclick
Hello, classyclick!
Hello, classyclick!
Hello, classyclick!

Wait... huh?

This simple example has even more lines than click's example???

Right, apart from personal aesthetics preferences, there is no reason to choose class-approach in this example.

Reason why I started to use classes for commands is that, as the command function complexity grows, we decompose it into more functions:

import click

@click.command()
@click.option("--count", default=1, help="Number of greetings.")
@click.option("--name", prompt="Your name", help="The person to greet.")
def hello(count, name):
    """Simple program that greets reversed NAME for a total of COUNT times."""
    greet(count, name)


def greet(count, name):
    for _ in range(count):
        click.echo(f"Hello, {reverse(name)}!")

def reverse(name):
    return name[::-1]

See the parameters being passed around?
Easy to have multiple parameters required to several different functions.

Refactoring to classyclick:

import click
import classyclick


@classyclick.command()
class Hello:
    """Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times."""

    name: str = classyclick.option(prompt='Your name', help='The person to greet.')
    count: int = classyclick.option(default=1, help='Number of greetings.')

    def __call__(self):
        self.greet()
    
    def greet(self):
        for _ in range(self.count):
            click.echo(f"Hello, {self.reversed_name}!")
    
    @property
    def reversed_name(self):
        return self.name[::-1]

More docs please

Not much to add to the simple example currently, as this mostly forwards everything to click, but here's something more then!

classyclick.command

Use it just like @click.command but decorating a class instead of a function (classy).

The only new keyword argument is group. This can be used to attach the command a click.group.

Re-using click examples:

@click.group()
@click.option('--debug/--no-debug', default=False)
def cli(debug):
    click.echo(f"Debug mode is {'on' if debug else 'off'}")

@cli.command()  # @cli, not @click!
def sync():
    click.echo('Syncing')

@classyclick.command(group=cli)  # classy! with group
class AnotherSync:
    ...

Same as click.command, you can choose a command name or allow it to derive it from class name (camel to kebab, instead of click's snake to kebab).

It will also forward class __doc__ to click to be used as description if not specified as keyword arg.

classyclick.option

Instead of the decorator approach, this is more like Django's models to take advantage of how parameters are enumerated.

As you noticed from the example, there's no need to specify an option parameter name:

count: int = classyclick.option(default=1, help='Number of greetings.')

classyclick makes use of the field names to infer a default (--count in example).

To add a short version on top of it:

count: int = classyclick.option('-c', default=1, help='Number of greetings.')

And to only include the short, you can use the only keyword argument that is not forwarded to @click.option: default_parameter

count: int = classyclick.option('-c', default_parameter=False, default=1, help='Number of greetings.')

classyclick.option also infers type from type hints, then passed to click.option.

# The resulting click.option will use type=Path
output: Path = classyclick.option()

# You can still override it and mix things if you want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
other_output: Any = classyclick.option(type=str)

When type is bool, it will set is_flag=True as well. If for some reason you don't want that, it can still be overriden.

# This results in click.option('--verbose', type=bool, is_flag=True)
verbose: bool = classyclick.option()

# As mentioned, it can always be overriden if you need the weird behavior of a non-flag bool option...
weird: bool = classyclick.option(is_flag=False)

classyclick.argument

Similar to classyclick.option, this is mostly wrapping @click.argument so it can be used in fields.

Argument name is inferred from the field name and, same as classyclick.option, type from field.type.
Again, type can be overriden, however not argument name as it has to match the property. For display purposes, you can use metavar=.

@classyclick.command()
class Next:
    """Output the next number."""

    your_number: int = classyclick.argument()

    def __call__(self):
        click.echo(self.your_number + 1)

$ ./cli_four.py --help
Usage: cli_four.py [OPTIONS] YOUR_NUMBER

  Output the next number.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

$ ./cli_four.py 5     
6

Composition

You can compose commands together as the wrapped class is just a dataclass.

Only thing to remember is that the original wrapped class is stored in Command.classy, as Command becomes a function after being decorated.

As example, if we wanted a Bye command just like the Hello example above, but with a small change, we can subclass Hello.classy

import click
import classyclick


@classyclick.command()
class Bye(Hello.classy):
    """Simple program that says bye to NAME for a total of COUNT times."""

    def greet(self):
        for _ in range(self.count):
            click.echo(f"Bye, {self.reversed_name}!")

The command is subclassed, inheriting arguments/options (as they are dataclass fields) and any methods:

$ ./bye.py --help

Usage: bye.py [OPTIONS]

  Simple program that says bye to NAME for a total of COUNT times.

Options:
  --name TEXT          The person to greet.
  -c, --count INTEGER  Number of greetings.
  --help               Show this message and exit.

Testing

classyclick is just a small wrapper around click, testing is the same as in click's docs:

from click.testing import CliRunner
# Hello being the example above that reverses name
# notice that the wrapped `click.command` gets the same casing as the class
from hello import Hello

def test_hello_world():
  runner = CliRunner()
  result = runner.invoke(Hello, ['--name', 'Peter'])
  assert result.exit_code == 0
  assert result.output == 'Hello reteP!\n'

For unit testing specific methods of a command, you might want to skip CliRunner and use the original class instead, available at Hello.classy (from the example)

This might help reducing required test setup as you don't need to control complex code paths from entrypoint of the CLI command.

# notice that the wrapped `click.command` gets the same casing as the class
from hello import Hello

def test_hello_world():
# for the example above that reverses the name
o = Hello.classy('hello', 1)
assert o.reversed_name == 'olleh'