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CLI improvements proposal: positional argument #65

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Summary

Closes #56

Changes

  • Add an optional positional source argument (pkg/arg)

  • Print only source-related flags with those commands

    • Removed prefixes from ttnv3 flags; to be followed with other sources
  • Split application and devices commands FlagSets

  • Improved ttnv3 config by utilising flags that save value to variables directly

Testing

local testing

  • The Things Stack
  • Chirpstack v3
  • ttnv2
Regressions

I do not expect any.

Notes for Reviewers

  • If we were planning to add more commands in the future, FlagSet splitting could be upgraded to a more sophisticated solution. Currently it's pretty simple.

  • It was suggested to use generated commands like tts-devices ETC, but I wanted to propose this solution which seems to work well and is pretty simple

  • When pflag is used to set ActiveSource the value is set after initialisation, so the flags cannot be separated easily (during FlagSet() function call)

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  • Scope: The referenced issue is addressed, there are no unrelated changes.
  • Documentation: Relevant documentation is added or updated.
  • Changelog: Significant features, behavior changes, deprecations and fixes are added to CHANGELOG.md.

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flags.StringVar(&config.AppID,
devices.StringVar(&config.AppID,
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The --app-id flag was removed from application command of ttnv{2,3} sources since there was no use case for it.
Example:

ttn-lw-migrate ttnv3 application --app-id 'my-app'

If the tool was called like this without an argument it would expect to receive Application IDs from stdin so the flag would be ignored and the tool would 'hang unexpectedly' (waiting).

Since f33a68b the argument always overrides the flag. This combination makes the flag redundant or even confusing for the application command in those sources.

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Is this flag magic really necessary? Why don't we have commands per source with their own flag sets?

Also I see some exotic use of switch/case while this is what simple if/else statements seem to be made for.

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Is this flag magic really necessary? Why don't we have commands per source with their own flag sets?

@happyRip I think this actually may be better than our current hack. We would need to generate dynamically an application / device sub command per source, but I think it would indeed work better here.

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### Added

- Added `--ttnv3.no-session` and `--ttnv3.delete-source-device` flags
- positional `source` argument
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Upper case first letter and dot at the end.

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### Changed

### Fixed
- depreciated `--source` flag
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Upper case first letter, deprecated and dot at the end.

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### Removed

- `--app-id` flag for `application` command
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Dot at the end. Same below.

return err
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// deleteSourceDevice not allowed when dryRun
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DeleteSourceDevice is not allowed during a dry run.

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What is the status here - is this blocked on anything ? Does it need any technical decision ?

@happyRip happyRip changed the title Migration tool CLI improvements CLI improvements proposal: positional argument May 1, 2023
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happyRip commented May 1, 2023

Subcommands approach was merged, so this PR can be closed.

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