I'm writing a Python wrapper around another program. I want the user to be able to specify a few options for the wrapper and then pass the rest of the command-line through to the wrapped program. Something like this:
@click.command()
@click.option("--port", type=int)
@click.argument("args", nargs=-1)
def main(port, args):
call_the_wrapped_program(port=port, args=args)
But this dies with Error: no such option: -k because it treats any command-line switch as something it should parse rather than an argument that can be added to args.
Is this possible?
The Forwarding Unknown Options section in the documentation covers this use case. You should be able to write something like this:
@click.command(context_settings=dict(
ignore_unknown_options=True,
))
@click.option("--port", type=int)
@click.argument("args", nargs=-1, type=click.UNPROCESSED)
def main(port, args):
call_the_wrapped_program(port=port, args=args)