CHANGES

• Update TOX_CONSTRAINTS_FILE for stable/yoga

• Update .gitreview for stable/yoga

3.10.1

• Removing modindex link from docs

3.10.0

3.9.0

• Automatically page interactive root help output

• Colourise and automatically page help output

• Update unit test to satisfy python3.10+

• Handle SIGPIPE exit gracefully

• Add conflict_handler parameter as attribut in Command class

3.8.0

• setup.cfg: Replace dashes with underscores

• Replace getargspec with getfullargspec

• Use py3 as the default runtime for tox

• Add Python3 xena unit tests

3.7.0

• requirements: Uncap PrettyTable

• Add ‘–sort-ascending’, ‘–sort-descending’ parameters

• Make ‘FormattableColumn’ comparable

• Handle null values when sorting

• Remove unicode from code

• gitignore: Ignore reno artefacts

• Remove lower-constraints

3.6.0

• trivial: Remove references to Python 2.7

3.5.0

• columns: Make ‘FormattableColumn’ comparable

• Update requirements URLs in tox config

• Remove six

• Update requirements

• doc: Update bug tracker to storyboard

• Remove references to setuptools

• Add py38 package metadata

• Remove Babel from lower-constraints.txt

• Bump py37 to py38 in tox.ini

• List setuptools under install_requires

• Document KeyboardInterrupt exit code

• Exit gracefully on Ctrl-C

• change help action to use its own exception for exit

• Add Python3 wallaby unit tests

• Capturing argparse errors due to problem with cmd2

3.4.0

• switch to stevedore for loading entry points

3.3.0

• Remove cap on cmd2

• Fix compatibility with new cmd2

3.2.0

• drop mock from lower-constraints and requirements

• Import command group support from osc-lib

• Remove unneeded tests

• Migrate to stestr

• Remove python3.5

• Stop to use the __future__ module

• Switch to newer openstackdocstheme version

• Use unittest.mock instead of third party mock

• Add Python3 victoria unit tests

3.1.0

• Re-add support for python 3.5

• Fix nested argument groups with ignore conflict handler

• adding missing releasenote for the drop of py27 support

3.0.0

• [ussuri][goal] Drop python 2.7 support and testing

2.18.0

• Add autoprogram_cliff_app_dist_name config opt

• Switch to Ussuri jobs

• Add contributors link to readme

2.16.0

• Pin cmd2 back to <0.9 on all versions

• Modify the help message of `-c`/`–column` parameter

• Add Python 3 Train unit tests

• Stop wildcard importing argparse

2.15.0

• Add an errexit attribute to InteractiveApp to exit on command errors

• Dropping the py35 testing

• Updates for OpenDev transition

• OpenDev Migration Patch

• add python 3.7 unit test job

• Missing carriage return in some cases, using -f json

2.14.1

• Use template for lower-constraints

• Change openstack-dev to openstack-discuss

2.14.0

• Don’t try to run issubclass on non-classes

• Removed unused err variable

• Remove dead files

• add lib-forward-testing-python3 test job

• add python 3.6 unit test job

• switch documentation job to new PTI

• import zuul job settings from project-config

2.13.0

• Assure executable name is kept when app is called as module

2.12.1

• Build universal wheels

• fix tox python3 overrides

• support cmd2 0.9.1 in interactive mode

2.12.0

• update cmd2 dependency to handle py3 only versions

• Remove travis.yml

• exclude cmd2 0.8.3 and update to 0.8.4

• add lower-constraints job

• fix typos in documentation

2.17.0

• Allow finding command by partial name

• Updated from global requirements

• Remove the warning of getargspec removal

• Align parsed() call with cmd2 versions >= 0.7.3

• Fix cmd2 doc URL

• add argparse conflict handler “ignore”

• sphinxext: Warn if namespace or command pattern invalid

• Zuul: Remove project name

• Updated from global requirements

2.11.0

• remove -s alias for –sort-columns

2.10.0

• Remove empty files

• Add ability to sort data by columns for list commands

• Updated from global requirements

• Remove tox_install.sh and just pass -c in tox

• Replace legacy tips jobs with shiny new versions

• Move doc requirements to doc/requirements.txt

• do not require installing demo app to build docs

• add support for legacy command name translation

• Use in-tree cliffdemo app for docs build

• Updated from global requirements

• add bandit to pep8 job

• sphinxext: Support cliff application

• Fix PEP8 in gate

• doc: Cleanup of demoapp doc

• Generate demoapp CLI refernece

• Fix codec error when format=csv

2.9.1

• handle more varied top_level.txt files in distributions

2.9.0

• show the distribution providing the command in help output

• Update .gitignore

• Docs update for more-hooks

• Updates for stestr

• Allow command hooks to make changes

• Updated from global requirements

• add actual column names to error msg Closes-Bug: 1712876

• Alias exit to cmd2’s quit command to exit interactive shell

• Updated from global requirements

• Update doc on Sphinx integration process

• Fix regexp for detecting long options

• sphinxext: Correct issues with usage formatting

• Move comments up in [extras] section of setup.cfg

• Updated from global requirements

• Make openstackdocstheme an optional doc dependency

• Updated from global requirements

• doc: minor cleanup

• Update and replace http with https for doc links

• doc: Remove blank lines between term and definition

• trivial: Fix comments in sphinxext module

• Use assertIsNone(…) instead of assertIs(None,…)

• Updated from global requirements

2.8.0

• add tests for display command classes and hooks

• Run hooks for DisplayCommandBase

• add –fit-width option to table formatter

• sphinxext: Add ‘application’ option to the autoprogram directive

• use openstackdocstheme html context

• switch from oslosphinx to openstackdocstheme

• Fix erroneous line in command hook test

• make smart help formatter test deterministic

• remove references to distribute in the docs

• add before and after hooks

• add hook for get_epilog

• add hook for manipulating the argument parser

• Updated from global requirements

• pass the command name from HelpCommand

• Adjust completenames tests for cmd2 0.7.3+

• rearrange existing content to follow new standard

• sphinext: Use metavar where possible

• sphinxext: Use ‘argparse.description’, ‘argparse.epilog’

• sphinxext: Allow configuration of ignorable options

• sphinxext: Generate better usage examples

• add cmd_name argument to CompleteCommand

• Ensure python standard argparse module is loaded

• Updated from global requirements

2.7.0

• covert test suite to use testrepository

2.6.0

• Updated from global requirements

• Add smart help formatter for command parser

• Add support for epilogs

• Add ‘autoprogram-cliff’ Sphinx directive

• .gitignore: Ignore eggs

2.5.0

• Use Sphinx 1.5 warning-is-error

• Update cmd2 fix to still work with 0.6.7

• Remove support for py34

• Fix broken test with cmd2 0.7.0

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Add newline if the output formatter is json

2.4.0

• Add Constraints support

• Remove tox environments that no longer work

• Fix command order

• Show team and repo badges on README

• Add print_empty parameter

2.3.0

• ignore Command docstring when looking for descriptions

• let the Command get its one-liner description from a class attribute

• flake8 fix

• Replace dashes and colons when using bash formatter

• Show entire command in error message

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Fix spelling mistake

• Add Python 3.5 classifier and venv

• Updated from global requirements

• Changed the home-page link

• Add Apache 2.0 license to source file

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Clean imports in code

• [doc]Fix URL for ‘setuptools entry points’

• Fix a typo in comment

2.2.0

• Avoid ASCII encoding errors when output is redirected

• Fix cliff URLs in doc and demoapp

• Remove announce.rst

• Fix Command class doc typo

• Updated from global requirements

• Fixed broken link

• add formattable columns concept

• Add tests, cover more cases

• Updated from global requirements

• pep8: fix F405 error

• command: make run() return take_action() value

2.1.0

• Updated from global requirements

• Update –max-width help

• Add more test coverage for shell formatter

• Add more test coverage for CSV formatter

• Support multiple sub commands in completion

• Factorize more test data

• Factorize some test data

• Factorize common test code

• Factorize argparse importing

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Add CLIFF_MAX_TERM_WIDTH envvar to complement –max-width

• Fix prettytable.PrettyTable().max_width wrong usage

• Fix AttributeError when entry point load failed

• Distinguish no existed columns in ShowOne

• Refactor HelpCommand

• Updated from global requirements

• Remove httplib2 from test-requirements.txt

• Sync help message for –help

2.0.0

• handle empty list in table formatter

1.17.0

• Drop Python 2.6 support

• Revert “app,command: disallow abbrev by default”

• Fixes terminal_width on Windows

1.16.0

• Updated from global requirements

• remove openstack-common.conf

• Add doc for deferred_help parameter

• Fix pep8 failure

• app,command: disallow abbrev by default

• app: work-around abbrev

• remove unnecessary dependency on argparse

• Make verbose and quiet mutually exclusive

• setup: fix Python versions classifiers

• Don’t import unused logging

• Don’t use non-existent method of Mock

• Replace dashes with underscores in bash completion

• Updated from global requirements

• Resize columns to fit screen width

• fix fuzzy search for same-distance case

• Correct path to docs

• only use unicodecsv for python 2.x

• Fix test class docstring for py 3.5

1.15.0

• Replace ‘r’ with ‘ ‘ for prettytable

• Implement a json formatter in cliff

• Implement a yaml formatter in cliff

• Updated from global requirements

• Improve help messages

1.14.0

• Add csv formatter test

• Fix encoding issue with the default python csv output

• Remove py26 as a default test from tox.ini

• Set demo app up with deferred help

• Add command fuzzy matching

• Updated from global requirements

• Remove requirements.txt from tox.ini

• Updated from global requirements

• Updated from global requirements

• Allow subcommands to accept –help when using ‘deferred_help’

• Updated from global requirements

• Fix logging config in demo app

• Use base command for help test

• Updated from global requirements

• Include the automatically-generated changelog

• Updated from global requirements

1.13.0

• Fix object has no attribute debug error

• Add some docs for list value formatter

• Add value format for list command

• Updated from global requirements

• Remove run_cross_tests.sh

• fix author contact details

• Print help on help command

1.12.0

• Do not check requirements when loading plugins

1.11.0

• Catch and ignore error when locale can not be set

• Uncap library requirements for liberty

• Add documentation for the value formatter

• Sort the fuzzy matches

• Defer interactive import

• Updated from global requirements

• Update links to setuptools doc

1.10.1

• Pass user command text to the Command object

• Document print_help_if_requested method

1.10.0

• Allow to call initialize_app when running –help

• Hide prompt in batch/pipe mode

• Correct completion in interactive mode

• Change the argument passed to __init__ for help

• Fix pep8 tests for lambda

• Updated from global requirements

• Fix git repo urls in tox.ini

• Add deprecated attribute to commands

• Workflow documentation is now in infra-manual

1.9.0

• print the real error cmd argument

• Updated from global requirements

1.8.0

• Update link to docs in README

• Bring doc build up to standard

• Add pbr to installation requirements

• Add more detail to the README

• Updated from global requirements

• Add docs environment to tox.ini

• mock.assert_called_once() is not a valid method

• Work toward Python 3.4 support and testing

• warn against sorting requirements

1.7.0

• Add release notes for 1.7.0

• Fix stable integration tests

• Updated from global requirements

• Clean up default tox environment list

• Do not allow wheels for stable tests

• Set the main logger name to match the application

• CSV formatter should use system-dependent line ending

• Make show option compatible with Python 2.6

• Use six.add_metaclass instead of __metaclass__

• fixed typos found by RETF rules

• The –variable option to shell format is redundant

• Expose load_commands publicly

• Fix wrong method name assert_called_once

• Updated from global requirements

• Fix pep8 failures on rule E265

1.6.1

• Remove PrettyTable from documentation requirements

• Fix a bug in ShellFormatter’s escaping of double quotes in strings

• Import run_cross_tests.sh from oslo-incubator

• add doc requirements to venv

1.6.0

• Add max-width support for table formatter

• Add value only output formattter

• Update readme with links to bug tracker and source

• Move pep8 dependency into pep8 tox test

• Fix doc build with Python 2.6.x

• Fix interactive mode with command line args

• Update .gitreview after repo rename

• Escape double quotes in shell formatter

• Add unit test for shell formatter

• Rename private attribute to avoid conflict

• Sync with global requirements

• Add integration tests with known consumers

• update history for previous change

• Make the formatters a private part of the command

1.5.2

• move to pbr for packaging

1.5.1

• add venv environ to tox config

1.5.0

• Update history for next release

• Move to stackforge

• update history for stevedore change

• Use stevedore to load formatter plugins

• use entry points for completion plugins

• Clean up recursive data handling

• Always install complete command

• attribution for bash completion work in history

• code style fixes

• code style fixes

• various python code optimizations; shuffle I/O to shell classes

• add bash complete

• Enable debug in help mode

• Pass the right args when pulling help from commands

• prepare for 1.4.5 release

• add pypy test env configuration

• Update pyparsing dependency to 2.0.1

1.4.4

• update for release 1.4.4

• Re-raise Exception on debug mode

• Add test to check if return code is 2 on unknown command

• Return code 1 is already use, use code 2 instead

• Reraise error on debug

• Display better error message on unknown command, and return code 1

• update announce file

1.4.3

• prepare for 1.4.3 release

• force python2.6 for that test env

• Provide a default output encoding

1.4.2

• prepare for release 1.4.2

1.4.1

• prepare for release 1.4.1

• Tighten requirements on cmd2

• remove use of distribute in demo app

• Fix default encoding issue with python 2.6

• move tests into cliff package

• add tests for dict2columns

• Add dict2columns()

• turn off distribute in tox

1.4

• prep for release 1.4

• fix flake8 issues with setup.py

• remove the other traces of distribute

• Remove explicit depend on distribute

• update history for recent contribution

• Expose instantiated interpreter instance and assign it to the ‘interpreter’ variable on the App instance

• Update announcement for release 1.3.3

1.3.3

• Prepare for release 1.3.3

• declare support for python 3.3

• cmd2 0.6.5.1 was released, and is compatible

• Restore compatibility with Prettytable < 0.7.2

1.3.2

• Prepare 1.3.2 release

• Bump prettytable version accepted

• add python 3.3 to tox

• add style checks to tests

• Add tests for underscore handling

• use flake8 for style checks

• update history.rst with convert_underscores change

• make converting underscores optional in CommandManager

• fix version in docs

1.3.1

• prepare for 1.3.1 release

• Fix PyParsing dependency

• Fix typo

• update history file for previous merge

• Make list of application commands lexicographically ordered for help command in interactive mode

1.3

• Prepare for 1.3 release

• clean up history file

• Document dependency on distribute

• fix rst formatting in docstring

• Update history file

• Add tests for new functionality

• Allow user to pass argparse_kwargs argument to the build_option_parser method. Those arguments gets passed to the ArgumentParser constructor

1.2.1

• Set up for 1.2.1 release

• Remove unused logging import

• Fix problem with missing izip import in lister.py

• Update announcement file for new release

1.2

• Set up release 1.2

• Add python2.6 support

• remove debug print

• remove tablib from test requirements

• Fix logging default behavior

• Fix interactive help command

1.1.2

• bumping version number for release

• remove the entry point data for the moved formatters

1.1.1

• bump the version number to release a clean build

1.1

• Update version and status values

• Remove tablib formatters from core

• fix version # in announcement

1.0

• Doc updates for API changes. Clean up docstrings. Bump version to 1.0

• merge API refactoring work

• yet more pep8 work

• fix help and tests for API change

• Move take_action() to Command

• more pep8 work

• Refactor DisplayBase.run() to make it easier to override separate parts in subclasses. Rename get_data() to take_action() so subclasses that do something other than query for values have a clear place to override

• pep8 cleanup

• add attribution to history for the previous merge

• Adding new line to tablib formatters

• fix tags declaration

• document updates for 0.7

• disable py26 tests since I do not have an environment for running them

0.7

• bump version

• fix interactive command processor to handle multi-part commands, including some that use the same first word as existing commands

• declare a couple of commands that use builtin command names but use multiple words

• update changelog

• set the interactive mode flag before initializing the app so subclasses can check it; handle initialization errors more cleanly

• add travis-ci status image to developer docs

• add travis-ci status image to README

• add a requirements file for travis-ci

• bogus commit to trigger ci build

• add travis-ci.org configuration file

• add version num to history file

0.6

• bump version number

• pass more details to initialize_app so subclasses can decide what sort of initialization to do

• enable to use in Python2.6

0.5.1

• remove hard version requirement to unbreak the OpenStack build

0.5

• prepare for 0.5 release

• document changes in history file

• make the organization of the classes page a little more clear

• update formatter documentation

• fix yaml, html, and json show formatters

• move the column option so it applies to “show” commands, too

• add yaml, json, and html formatters

• move the columns option out of the table formatter and into the lister base

• make help list commands if none match exactly; fixes #8

• require at least PrettyTable 0.6 for Python 3 support, fixes #7

• changes in the prettytable API rolled into the python 3 support update

• add a tox stage for pep8 testing

• python 3.2 does not have a unicode type so ignore the error if it is missing

• move todo list to github issues

• update todo list

• note about prettytable and python3

• refactor ShowOne and Lister to share a common base class

• more todo notes

• tests for cliff.help

• pass the App to the help action instead of passing just the command manager, since the app has the stout handle we want to use for printing the help

• 100% coverage of cliff.command

• 100% coverage for commandmanager.py

• 100% coverage of cliff.app module

• let the interactive app set its own prompt

• add tests for App and fix an issue with error handling and clean_up() in python 3

• use the stderr handle given to the app instead of assuming the default

0.4

• version number and release note updates for 0.4

• documentation improvements

• simplify packaging file for demo app

• ignore files generated by dev environment

• first pass at interactive app

• note to add more options to csv formatter

• add –prefix option for shell formatter; add docs for shell formatter

• clean up help text for the other formatters

• add shell output formatter for single items

• add longer docstring to show how it is printed by help

• update todo list

• fix typo in blog post

0.3

• update blog announcement

• bump the version number and update the release notes

• add ShowOne base class for commands that need to show properties of an individual object make the table formatter work as a single object formatter update the docs for the new features

• handle an empty data set

• correct the doctoring

• fix version # in doc build script

• 0.2 release announcement post

0.2

• bump version number

• start a release log

• update doc instructions for getting help

• only show the one-line description in the command list; add a description of “help”

• register a custom help action that knows how to print the list of commands available and a help command to generate help for the other commands

• provide an internal API for applications to register commands without going through setuptools (used for help handler)

• Use argparse for global arguments

• fix doc build instructions

• add some developer instructions and links ot the source repo and bug tracker

• add announcement blog post source

• advice from the distutils list was to stick with distribute for now

• add Makefile with some common release operations

• add example output to the list formatters

• add a requirements file for doc build on readthedocs.org

• add some real documentation

• Add get_data() to the Lister base class

• remove example that I was using as a syntax reminder

• Add a link to the docs

• while looking for documentation on entry points I realized distutils2 doesn’t seem to support them in the same way

• fill in a real description of the project

• start sphinx documentation

• Added a bit more to the README

• flesh out instructions for using the demo app

• add a few more ideas

• Added a README for the demo app

• Added download url to both setup.py files and updated the demo setup.py with the new url

0.1

• Added missing distribute setup file

• move repo link to the dreamhost project

• more to-do items

• add demoapp to release package and clean up files being distributed from the test directory

• notes about work still to be done

• require PrettyTable package for the table formatter

• improve error handling when loading formatter plugins

• add a csv formatter for list apps

• start creating a subclass of command for producing a list of output in different formats, using prettytable as an example formatter

• remove unused import

• better error handling of post-action hook in app

• Pass the I/O streams into the app

• add some error handling to App

• make the log messages slightly easier to parse

• tweak App api to make it easier to override and perform global actions before and after a command runs

• use logging for controlling console output verbosity

• clean up argv handling

• install nose for tox tests

• if no arguments are provided at all show the help message

• replace default –help processor with one that includes the list of subcommands available

• add debug option to nose

• clean up dead code

• include version info when configuring opt parse

• Sample program with command plugins

• first pass at an app class that can invoke commands

• save commands using the name representation to be used in help output; don’t modify the input arg list when searching for the command; return the name of the command found so the app can stuff it into the help text of the command

• start building command manager

• change to apache license

• add tox config file for tests

• add distribute_setup.py so install works

• add setup.py and package directory

• add a basic description to readme

• convert readme to rst

• initial commit