Handle formatting of subcommand name in error output

On Python 2, decoding all arguments leads to the possibility that users
that use the wrong command or mistype the name will see error output
with a unicode string's representation instead of one without it. To
avoid this we try and find the first non-option string in the argument
list and replace it with an string that is not text only on Python 2. If
we encoded the string at all times, then users installing glanceclient
on Python 3 would see b'invalid-subcommand' instead. That's as bad as
seeing u'invalid-subcommand' on Python 2.

Closes-bug: 1533090
Change-Id: I018769e159a607ebb233902cbeb13b95ca417190

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/glanceclient/shell.py b/glanceclient/shell.py
index 51e02a6..b3af185 100644
--- a/glanceclient/shell.py
+++ b/glanceclient/shell.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import traceback
 
 from oslo_utils import encodeutils
 from oslo_utils import importutils
+import six
 import six.moves.urllib.parse as urlparse
 
 import glanceclient
@@ -539,7 +540,13 @@ class OpenStackImagesShell(object):
             self.do_help(options, parser=parser)
             return 0
 
-        # Short-circuit and deal with help command right away.
+        # NOTE(sigmavirus24): Above, args is defined as the left over
+        # arguments from parser.parse_known_args(). This allows us to
+        # skip any parameters to command-line flags that may have been passed
+        # to glanceclient, e.g., --os-auth-token.
+        self._fixup_subcommand(args, argv)
+
+        # short-circuit and deal with help command right away.
         sub_parser = _get_subparser(api_version)
         args = sub_parser.parse_args(argv)
 
@@ -609,6 +616,33 @@ class OpenStackImagesShell(object):
                 print("To display trace use next command:\n"
                       "osprofiler trace show --html %s " % trace_id)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _fixup_subcommand(unknown_args, argv):
+        # NOTE(sigmavirus24): Sometimes users pass the wrong subcommand name
+        # to glanceclient. If they're using Python 2 they will see an error:
+        # > invalid choice: u'imgae-list' (choose from ...)
+        # To avoid this, we look at the extra args already parsed from above
+        # and try to predict what the subcommand will be based on it being the
+        # first non - or -- prefixed argument in args. We then find that in
+        # argv and encode it from unicode so users don't see the pesky `u'`
+        # prefix.
+        for arg in unknown_args:
+            if not arg.startswith('-'):  # This will cover both - and --
+                subcommand_name = arg
+                break
+        else:
+            subcommand_name = ''
+
+        if (subcommand_name and six.PY2 and
+                isinstance(subcommand_name, six.text_type)):
+            # NOTE(sigmavirus24): if we found a subcommand name, then let's
+            # find it in the argv list and replace it with a bytes object
+            # instead. Note, that if we encode the argument on Python 3, the
+            # user will instead see a pesky `b'` string instead of the `u'`
+            # string we mention above.
+            subcommand_index = argv.index(subcommand_name)
+            argv[subcommand_index] = encodeutils.safe_encode(subcommand_name)
+
     @utils.arg('command', metavar='<subcommand>', nargs='?',
                help='Display help for <subcommand>.')
     def do_help(self, args, parser):