💥 Update metavar printing#1863
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| @app.command() | ||
| def main( | ||
| id: Annotated[int, typer.Argument(min=0, max=1000)], | ||
| ID: Annotated[int, typer.Argument(min=0, max=1000)], |
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I made this one uppercase on purpose to show it's possible and to have as part of our test suite. And because seeing it displayed as "ID" instead of "id" is what you'd expect.
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We've decided to change a bit the "metavar" printing functionality of Typer. In short, the new rules are:
<>for displaying the type (including enum choices etc)[]for displaying something optional in the usage string{}for referencing an object (i.e. not a literal string) in the usage string if neither of the other 2 applyBreaking changes
<>, so"<str>"instead of"TEXT"and"<int>"instead of"INTEGER"etc.<simple|conv|lstm>instead of[simple|conv|lstm]or{simple|conv|lstm>}. Check the new testtest_param_type_help_metavarfor an overview.test_parameter_name_casing.{}, unless they're already surrounded with the "optional" denoting brackets[].master, optional ones were enclosed with[]which felt inconsistent with optional options)Edits in custom.js
When updating the documentation to show e.g.
<str>instead ofTEXT, this would be treated as an HTML tag and not actually displayed in our tutorial pages 😭 Hence the fixes tocustom.js.Tangiantel fixes
Default: Nonein the help text, PR 1120. I updated those as part of the documentation update here. I could also do this in a separate PR if preferred, but it would cause a lot of merge conflicts and duplicate work as I've now been going through all the docs in detail anyway.How to review this PR
Please mostly look at the test/documentation changes, and not so much the actual code changes in the Python files.
The Python edits will become obsolete with the Pydantic refactor that is in the works. In fact, this PR is a "spinoff" of the Pydantic refactor (#1831, WIP) in an attempt to make that one more "reviewable". Only the docs & tests changes will be brought over from here - the code changes from this PR will be subsumed by PR 1831.
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Created through pair-programming with Cursor, manually reviewed in detail. Also went through all the Typer docs manually & in detail.
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