[Lldb-commits] [lldb] Add the ability to define a Python based command that uses CommandObjectParsed (PR #70734)

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+"""
+This module implements a couple of utility classes to make writing
+lldb parsed commands more Pythonic.
+The way to use it is to make a class for you command that inherits from ParsedCommandBase.
+That will make an LLDBOVParser which you will use for your
+option definition, and to fetch option values for the current invocation
+of your command.  Access to the OV parser is through:
+
+ParsedCommandBase.get_parser()
+
+Next, implement setup_command_definition in your new command class, and call:
+
+  self.get_parser().add_option
+
+to add all your options.  The order doesn't matter for options, lldb will sort them
+alphabetically for you when it prints help.
+
+Similarly you can define the arguments with:
+
+  self.get_parser.add_argument
+
+at present, lldb doesn't do as much work as it should verifying arguments, it pretty
+much only checks that commands that take no arguments don't get passed arguments.
+
+Then implement the execute function for your command as:
+
+    def __call__(self, debugger, args_array, exe_ctx, result):
+
+The arguments will be in a python array as strings.  
+
+You can access the option values using varname you passed in when defining the option.  
+If you need to know whether a given option was set by the user or not, you can retrieve 
+the option definition array with:
+
+  self.get_options_definition()
+
+look up your element by varname and check the "_value_set" element.
+
+There are example commands in the lldb testsuite at:
+
+llvm-project/lldb/test/API/commands/command/script/add/test_commands.py
+
+FIXME: I should make a convenient wrapper for that. 
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jimingham wrote:

Comment got displaced, it goes with the "was_set" discussion.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/70734