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# Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 Canonical Ltd
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#
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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#
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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#
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# TODO: Some way to get a list of external commands (defined by shell
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# scripts) so that they can be included in the help listing as well.
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# It should be enough to just list the plugin directory and look for
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# executable files with reasonable names.
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# TODO: `help commands --all` should show hidden commands
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import sys
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import textwrap
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from bzrlib import (
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    commands as _mod_commands,
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    errors,
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    help_topics,
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    osutils,
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    plugin,
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    symbol_versioning,
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    )
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def help(topic=None, outfile=None):
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    """Write the help for the specific topic to outfile"""
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    if outfile is None:
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        outfile = sys.stdout
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    indices = HelpIndices()
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    alias = _mod_commands.get_alias(topic)
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    try:
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        topics = indices.search(topic)
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        shadowed_terms = []
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        for index, topic in topics[1:]:
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            shadowed_terms.append('%s%s' % (index.prefix,
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                topic.get_help_topic()))
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        source = topics[0][1]
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        outfile.write(source.get_help_text(shadowed_terms))
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    except errors.NoHelpTopic:
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        if alias is None:
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            raise
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    if alias is not None:
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        outfile.write("'bzr %s' is an alias for 'bzr %s'.\n" % (topic,
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            " ".join(alias)))
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def help_commands(outfile=None):
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    """List all commands"""
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    if outfile is None:
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        outfile = sys.stdout
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    outfile.write(_help_commands_to_text('commands'))
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def _help_commands_to_text(topic):
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    """Generate the help text for the list of commands"""
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    out = []
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    if topic == 'hidden-commands':
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        hidden = True
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    else:
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        hidden = False
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    names = set(_mod_commands.builtin_command_names()) # to eliminate duplicates
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    names.update(_mod_commands.plugin_command_names())
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    commands = ((n, _mod_commands.get_cmd_object(n)) for n in names)
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    shown_commands = [(n, o) for n, o in commands if o.hidden == hidden]
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    max_name = max(len(n) for n, o in shown_commands)
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    indent = ' ' * (max_name + 1)
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    width = osutils.terminal_width() - 1
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    for cmd_name, cmd_object in sorted(shown_commands):
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        plugin_name = cmd_object.plugin_name()
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        if plugin_name is None:
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            plugin_name = ''
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        else:
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            plugin_name = ' [%s]' % plugin_name
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        cmd_help = cmd_object.help()
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        if cmd_help:
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            firstline = cmd_help.split('\n', 1)[0]
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        else:
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            firstline = ''
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        helpstring = '%-*s %s%s' % (max_name, cmd_name, firstline, plugin_name)
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        lines = textwrap.wrap(helpstring, subsequent_indent=indent,
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                              width=width)
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        for line in lines:
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            out.append(line + '\n')
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    return ''.join(out)
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help_topics.topic_registry.register("commands",
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                                    _help_commands_to_text,
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                                    "Basic help for all commands",
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                                    help_topics.SECT_HIDDEN)
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help_topics.topic_registry.register("hidden-commands",
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                                    _help_commands_to_text,
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                                    "All hidden commands",
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                                    help_topics.SECT_HIDDEN)
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class HelpIndices(object):
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    """Maintainer of help topics across multiple indices.
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    It is currently separate to the HelpTopicRegistry because of its ordered
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    nature, but possibly we should instead structure it as a search within the
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    registry and add ordering and searching facilities to the registry. The
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    registry would probably need to be restructured to support that cleanly
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    which is why this has been implemented in parallel even though it does as a
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    result permit searching for help in indices which are not discoverable via
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    'help topics'.
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    Each index has a unique prefix string, such as "commands", and contains
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    help topics which can be listed or searched.
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    """
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    def __init__(self):
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        self.search_path = [
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            help_topics.HelpTopicIndex(),
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            _mod_commands.HelpCommandIndex(),
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            plugin.PluginsHelpIndex(),
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            ]
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    def _check_prefix_uniqueness(self):
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        """Ensure that the index collection is able to differentiate safely."""
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        prefixes = {}
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        for index in self.search_path:
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            prefixes.setdefault(index.prefix, []).append(index)
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        for prefix, indices in prefixes.items():
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            if len(indices) > 1:
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                raise errors.DuplicateHelpPrefix(prefix)
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    def search(self, topic):
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        """Search for topic across the help search path.
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        :param topic: A string naming the help topic to search for.
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        :raises: NoHelpTopic if none of the indexs in search_path have topic.
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        :return: A list of HelpTopics which matched 'topic'.
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        """
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        self._check_prefix_uniqueness()
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        result = []
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        for index in self.search_path:
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            result.extend([(index, _topic) for _topic in index.get_topics(topic)])
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        if not result:
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            raise errors.NoHelpTopic(topic)
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        else:
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            return result