tasks
¶
This module contains the core Task
class & convenience decorators used to
generate new tasks.
-
class
invoke.tasks.
Call
(task, *args, **kwargs)¶ Represents a call/execution of a
Task
with some arguments.Wraps its
Task
so it can be treated as one byExecutor
.Similar to
partial
with some added functionality (such as the delegation to the inner task, and optional tracking of a given name.)-
__weakref__
¶ list of weak references to the object (if defined)
-
-
invoke.tasks.
NO_DEFAULT
= <object object>¶ Sentinel object representing a truly blank value (vs
None
).
-
class
invoke.tasks.
Task
(body, name=None, contextualized=False, aliases=(), positional=None, optional=(), default=False, auto_shortflags=True, help=None, pre=None, post=None, autoprint=False)¶ Core object representing an executable task & its argument specification.
-
__weakref__
¶ list of weak references to the object (if defined)
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argspec
(body)¶ Returns two-tuple:
First item is list of arg names, in order defined.
- I.e. we cannot simply use a dict’s
keys()
method here.
- I.e. we cannot simply use a dict’s
Second item is dict mapping arg names to default values or
NO_DEFAULT
(an ‘empty’ value distinct from None, since None is a valid value on its own).
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get_arguments
()¶ Return a list of Argument objects representing this task’s signature.
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-
invoke.tasks.
ctask
(*args, **kwargs)¶ Wrapper for
task
which setscontextualized=True
by default.Please see
task
for documentation.
-
invoke.tasks.
task
(*args, **kwargs)¶ Marks wrapped callable object as a valid Invoke task.
May be called without any parentheses if no extra options need to be specified. Otherwise, the following keyword arguments are allowed in the parenthese’d form:
name
: Default name to use when binding to aCollection
. Useful for avoiding Python namespace issues (i.e. when the desired CLI level name can’t or shouldn’t be used as the Python level name.)contextualized
: Hints to callers (especially the CLI) that this task expects to be given aContext
object as its first argument when called.aliases
: Specify one or more aliases for this task, allowing it to be invoked as multiple different names. For example, a task namedmytask
with a simple@task
wrapper may only be invoked as"mytask"
. Changing the decorator to be@task(aliases=['myothertask'])
allows invocation as"mytask"
or"myothertask"
.positional
: Iterable overriding the parser’s automatic “args with no default value are considered positional” behavior. If a list of arg names, no args besides those named in this iterable will be considered positional. (This means that an empty list will force all arguments to be given as explicit flags.)optional
: Iterable of argument names, declaring those args to have optional values. Such arguments may be given as value-taking options (e.g.--my-arg=myvalue
, wherein the task is given"myvalue"
) or as Boolean flags (--my-arg
, resulting inTrue
).default
: Boolean option specifying whether this task should be its collection’s default task (i.e. called if the collection’s own name is given.)auto_shortflags
: Whether or not to automatically create short flags from task options; defaults to True.help
: Dict mapping argument names to their help strings. Will be displayed in--help
output.pre
,post
: Lists of task objects to execute prior to, or after, the wrapped task whenever it is executed.autoprint
: Boolean determining whether to automatically print this task’s return value to standard output when invoked directly via the CLI. Defaults to False.
If any non-keyword arguments are given, they are taken as the value of the
pre
kwarg for convenience’s sake. (It is an error to give both*args
andpre
at the same time.)