Added a shlex.split() wrapper to have a common way of calling it.

Replaced parse_quoted_string with _get_command_arg_list.

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/cmd2/cmd2.py b/cmd2/cmd2.py
index 66de8473..070849b7 100644
--- a/cmd2/cmd2.py
+++ b/cmd2/cmd2.py
@@ -150,24 +150,6 @@ def categorize(func: Union[Callable, Iterable], category: str) -> None:
         setattr(func, HELP_CATEGORY, category)
 
 
-def parse_quoted_string(string: str, preserve_quotes: bool) -> List[str]:
-    """
-    Parse a quoted string into a list of arguments
-    :param string: the string being parsed
-    :param preserve_quotes: if True, then quotes will not be stripped
-    """
-    if isinstance(string, list):
-        # arguments are already a list, return the list we were passed
-        lexed_arglist = string
-    else:
-        # Use shlex to split the command line into a list of arguments based on shell rules
-        lexed_arglist = shlex.split(string, comments=False, posix=False)
-
-        if not preserve_quotes:
-            lexed_arglist = [utils.strip_quotes(arg) for arg in lexed_arglist]
-    return lexed_arglist
-
-
 def with_category(category: str) -> Callable:
     """A decorator to apply a category to a command function."""
     def cat_decorator(func):
@@ -176,10 +158,37 @@ def with_category(category: str) -> Callable:
     return cat_decorator
 
 
+def _get_command_arg_list(to_parse: Union[str, Statement], preserve_quotes: bool) -> List[str]:
+    """
+    Called by the argument_list and argparse wrappers to retrieve just the arguments being
+    passed to their do_* methods as a list.
+
+    :param to_parse: what is being passed to the do_* method. It can be one of two types:
+                     1. An already parsed Statement
+                     2. An argument string in cases where a do_* method is explicitly called
+                        e.g.: Calling do_help('alias create') would cause to_parse to be 'alias create'
+
+    :param preserve_quotes: if True, then quotes will not be stripped from the arguments
+    :return: the arguments in a list
+    """
+    if isinstance(to_parse, Statement):
+        # In the case of a Statement, we already have what we need
+        if preserve_quotes:
+            return to_parse.arg_list
+        else:
+            return to_parse.argv[1:]
+    else:
+        # We only have the argument string. Use the parser to split this string.
+        parsed_arglist = StatementParser.shlex_split(to_parse)
+        if not preserve_quotes:
+            parsed_arglist = [utils.strip_quotes(arg) for arg in parsed_arglist]
+
+        return parsed_arglist
+
+
 def with_argument_list(*args: List[Callable], preserve_quotes: bool = False) -> Callable[[List], Optional[bool]]:
     """A decorator to alter the arguments passed to a do_* cmd2 method. Default passes a string of whatever the user
-    typed. With this decorator, the decorated method will receive a list of arguments parsed from user input using
-    shlex.split().
+    typed. With this decorator, the decorated method will receive a list of arguments parsed from user input.
 
     :param args: Single-element positional argument list containing do_* method this decorator is wrapping
     :param preserve_quotes: if True, then argument quotes will not be stripped
@@ -189,9 +198,9 @@ def with_argument_list(*args: List[Callable], preserve_quotes: bool = False) ->
 
     def arg_decorator(func: Callable):
         @functools.wraps(func)
-        def cmd_wrapper(self, cmdline):
-            lexed_arglist = parse_quoted_string(cmdline, preserve_quotes)
-            return func(self, lexed_arglist)
+        def cmd_wrapper(cmd2_instance, statement: Union[str, Statement]):
+            parsed_arglist = _get_command_arg_list(statement, preserve_quotes)
+            return func(cmd2_instance, parsed_arglist)
 
         cmd_wrapper.__doc__ = func.__doc__
         return cmd_wrapper
@@ -214,16 +223,17 @@ def with_argparser_and_unknown_args(argparser: argparse.ArgumentParser, preserve
     import functools
 
     # noinspection PyProtectedMember
-    def arg_decorator(func: Callable[[Statement], Optional[bool]]):
+    def arg_decorator(func: Callable):
         @functools.wraps(func)
-        def cmd_wrapper(instance, cmdline):
-            lexed_arglist = parse_quoted_string(cmdline, preserve_quotes)
+        def cmd_wrapper(cmd2_instance, statement: Union[str, Statement]):
+            parsed_arglist = _get_command_arg_list(statement, preserve_quotes)
+
             try:
-                args, unknown = argparser.parse_known_args(lexed_arglist)
+                args, unknown = argparser.parse_known_args(parsed_arglist)
             except SystemExit:
                 return
             else:
-                return func(instance, args, unknown)
+                return func(cmd2_instance, args, unknown)
 
         # argparser defaults the program name to sys.argv[0]
         # we want it to be the name of our command
@@ -256,16 +266,18 @@ def with_argparser(argparser: argparse.ArgumentParser,
     import functools
 
     # noinspection PyProtectedMember
-    def arg_decorator(func: Callable[[Statement], Optional[bool]]):
+    def arg_decorator(func: Callable):
         @functools.wraps(func)
-        def cmd_wrapper(instance, cmdline):
-            lexed_arglist = parse_quoted_string(cmdline, preserve_quotes)
+        def cmd_wrapper(cmd2_instance, statement: Union[str, Statement]):
+
+            parsed_arglist = _get_command_arg_list(statement, preserve_quotes)
+
             try:
-                args = argparser.parse_args(lexed_arglist)
+                args = argparser.parse_args(parsed_arglist)
             except SystemExit:
                 return
             else:
-                return func(instance, args)
+                return func(cmd2_instance, args)
 
         # argparser defaults the program name to sys.argv[0]
         # we want it to be the name of our command
@@ -742,8 +754,7 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd):
         # Parse the line into tokens
         while True:
             try:
-                # Use non-POSIX parsing to keep the quotes around the tokens
-                initial_tokens = shlex.split(tmp_line[:tmp_endidx], comments=False, posix=False)
+                initial_tokens = StatementParser.shlex_split(tmp_line[:tmp_endidx])
 
                 # If the cursor is at an empty token outside of a quoted string,
                 # then that is the token being completed. Add it to the list.
@@ -1735,7 +1746,7 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd):
             # Fix those annoying problems that occur with terminal programs like "less" when you pipe to them
             if self.stdin.isatty():
                 import subprocess
-                proc = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('stty sane'))
+                proc = subprocess.Popen(['stty', 'sane'])
                 proc.communicate()
 
         try: