tool-box 0.5.1

Toolbox

What is Toolbox ?

Toolbox is a framework to manage a collection of tools. A tool can be anything from a shell script to a python package.

Basically toolbox extends the python argparse.ArgumentParser to enable importing tools from multiple locations in a single executable. Toolbox provides some easy default tools to create , install, uninstall or list (available) tools.

A custom tool needs to implement 2 methods: * prepare_parser : which prepares an argparse.ArgumentParser * execute : which is the main entry point of your tool

Besides the wrapper around argument parsing toolbox as a framework provides some easy to add extra’s like persisted configuration, usage of tools within tools and no-configuration logging.

An example of a custom tool:

from toolbox.plugin import ToolboxPlugin
from toolbox.mixins import RegistryMixin, ConfigMixin, LogMixin

class CustomPlugin(RegistryMixin, ConfigMixin, LogMixin, ToolboxPlugin)
        name = "custom"
        description = "This is a custom plugin that prints a string"

        def prepare_parser(self,parser):
                parser.add_argument('printable', help="string to print")

        def execute(args):
                # LogMixin
                logger = self.get_logger()
                logger.info("printing {}".format(args.printable)

                # ConfigMixin
                config = self.get_config()
                config['first_print'] = args.printable

                # RegistryMixin
                registry = self.get_registry()
                other_plugin = registry.get_plugin('other')

                print(args.printable)

For more info on all the tools the toolbox framework provides check the complete documentation!

• Free software: ISC license
• Documentation: https://tool-box.readthedocs.org.

Features

• Integrate your own shell scripts etc. with a single command
• Easily integrate your existing python tools with toolbox by wrapping them in ToolboxPlugin class
• Add persisted configuration to your tools
• Use other tools within your own tools
• search tools in the toolbox
• install other tools from PyPI/github with the toolbox commandline

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.5.0 (2016-01-02)

• added logs tool
• added tests for the registry , scanner and config

0.4.0 (2016-01-01)

• First stable release on PyPI.