Added support for using cmd2 application class methods as an argument completion provider. The default completion implementation in Cmd2 automatically passes self to AutoCompleter to be passed to the class method.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/examples/tab_autocompletion.py b/examples/tab_autocompletion.py
index 17c8391d..a1a8daee 100755
--- a/examples/tab_autocompletion.py
+++ b/examples/tab_autocompletion.py
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ class TabCompleteExample(cmd2.Cmd):
                                  },
                      }
 
+    def instance_query_actors(self) -> List[str]:
+        """Simulating a function that queries and returns a completion values"""
+        return actors
+
     # This demonstrates a number of customizations of the AutoCompleter version of ArgumentParser
     #  - The help output will separately group required vs optional flags
     #  - The help output for arguments with multiple flags or with append=True is more concise
@@ -222,7 +226,7 @@ class TabCompleteExample(cmd2.Cmd):
 
     # tag the action objects with completion providers. This can be a collection or a callable
     setattr(director_action, argparse_completer.ACTION_ARG_CHOICES, static_list_directors)
-    setattr(actor_action, argparse_completer.ACTION_ARG_CHOICES, query_actors)
+    setattr(actor_action, argparse_completer.ACTION_ARG_CHOICES, instance_query_actors)
 
     vid_movies_delete_parser = vid_movies_commands_subparsers.add_parser('delete')