Cannot get hooks to work

[FokkeZB]

I'm writing a hook as apart of TiNy so you can also do:

titanium ios

This should be doable using the hooks, just like the included tisdk3fixes hook manipulates the commands given.

However, when I add the hook it doesn't log anything when I call ti build or ti create etc. When I call ti or ti config it does log.

Are the hooks not implemented for build and create yet?

[cb1kenobi]

You do not want to use a hook to do this. Hooks and commands are different. To create a command, simply create a directory with a javascript file (your command). Then add the directory to the CLI's "paths.commands" config settings. Refer to slide 17 for a nudge in the right direction: http://www.slideshare.net/cb1kenobi/titanium-cli-32-ti-appcamp2-1122013.

[FokkeZB]

TiNy is already pluggable as a command, but I want to also make it a hook so you can do:

ti "Fokke Zandbergen (HSHD7DD)" "12312-32ASDFS-123132DFSS" myrecipe

I'm sure there's a hook to transform the arguments? I see similar happening in the tisdk3fixes hook.

[cb1kenobi]

Hmm... the CLI doesn't have a hook for you to hook into that would allow you modify the command line arguments. The first hook to fire is "cli:command-loaded" and that's done after all the argument parsing passes have completed.

The only thing you can do is hook into "cli:command-loaded" and overwrite the parsed cli.argv values.

tisdk3fixes isn't modifying arguments. It modifies the TiSDK 3.0 and 3.1 iOS build options to force the deploy-type to "production" for dist-appstore and dist-adhoc builds. What happened was there was a bug in the CLI that I fixed in June 2013 that revealed another bug in each Titanium 3.0.x and 3.1.x SDK. tisdk3fixes forces the correct deploy type so that Titanium CLI 3.2 can call a Titanium SDK 3.1.x (or older) build.

[FokkeZB]

Logging all different, events I think I can better use cli:post-validate. If I use cli:command-loaded and use an unknown option, the CLI never emits the event. I'l play around with it ;)

[FokkeZB]

I have the following test hook:

var _ = require('underscore');

exports.cliVersion = '>=3.X';

exports.init = function(logger, config, cli) {
    _.each(['cli:command-not-found', 'cli:command-loaded', 'cli:pre-validate', 'cli:post-validate', 'cli:pre-execute', 'cli:post-execute'], function(hook) {
        cli.on(hook, function(e, next) {
            console.log(hook);
            next();
        });
    });
};

When I run ti help I get:

~  ti help
cli:command-loaded
cli:pre-validate
Titanium Command-Line Interface, CLI version 3.2.0, Titanium SDK version 3.2.0.v20131110134044
Copyright (c) 2012-2013, Appcelerator, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

Please report bugs to http://jira.appcelerator.org/

cli:post-validate
cli:pre-execute
Usage: titanium <command> [options]

   [cut]

cli:post-execute

But when I run ti build I get:

ti build
Titanium Command-Line Interface, CLI version 3.2.0, Titanium SDK version 3.2.0.v20131110134044
Copyright (c) 2012-2013, Appcelerator, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

Please report bugs to http://jira.appcelerator.org/

Target platform to build for:
 1)  android
 2)  blackberry
 3)  ios
 4)  mobileweb
 5)  tizen
Enter # or platform name:

Question: Is there not any hook executed for ti build? What I would like is hook/hack this command, parse any arguments such as UUIDs, names, TiNy recipes etc and then continue the build with altered options.

[cb1kenobi]

--platform is special and baked into the CLI. If you are running a command that has a --platform option, but --platform is omitted, then the CLI will prompt for the platform immediately. The old CLI use to defer --platform option processing until the command's options are being validated. The new CLI requires --platform to be defined before the validation process begins.

[FokkeZB]

Aha! I've created a JIRA ticket requesting a hook that executes before the process' argv are parsed by the CLI:

https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TC-3292

[cb1kenobi]

Brilliant! :)