added unnamed data and param passing - used by CLB API

README.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ However, for now (and for backward compatibility reasons) the class name stays t
 ## Cloudflare API version 4
 
 The Cloudflare API can be found [here](https://api.cloudflare.com/).
-Each API call is provided via a similarly named function within the _CloudFlare_ class.
+Each API call is provided via a similarly named function within the **CloudFlare** class.
 A full list is provided below.
 
 ## Example code
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
 ## Providing Cloudflare Username and API Key
 
-When you create a _CloudFlare_ class you can pass up to four paramaters.
+When you create a **CloudFlare** class you can pass up to four paramaters.
 
  * Account email
  * Account API key
@@ -412,10 +412,10 @@ For API calls that need to pass data or parameters there is various formats to u
 
 The simplest form is ```item=value```. This passes the value as a string within the APIs JSON data.
 
-If you need a numeric value passed then _==_ can be used to force the value to be treated as a numeric value within the APIs JSON data.
+If you need a numeric value passed then **==** can be used to force the value to be treated as a numeric value within the APIs JSON data.
 For example: ```item==value```.
 
-if you need to pass a list of items; then _[]_ can be used. For example:
+if you need to pass a list of items; then **[]** can be used. For example:
 
 ```
 pool_id1="11111111111111111111111111111111"
@@ -424,9 +424,20 @@ pool_id3="33333333333333333333333333333333"
 cli4 --post global_pools="[ ${pool_id1}, ${pool_id2}, ${pool_id3} ]" region_pools="[ ]" /user/load_balancers/maps
 ```
 
+Data or parameters can be either named or unnamed.
+It can not be both.
+Named is the majority format; as described above.
+Unnamed parameters simply don't have anything before the **=** sign, as in ```=value```.
+This format is presently only used by the Cloudflare Load Balancer API calls.
+For example:
+
+```
+cli4 --put ="[ 00000000000000000000000000000000 ]" /user/load_balancers/maps/:00000000000000000000000000000000/region/WNAM
+```
+
 ### CLI output
 
-The output from the CLI command is in JSON or YAML format (and human readable). This is controled by the _--yaml_ or _--json_ flags (JSON is the default).
+The output from the CLI command is in JSON or YAML format (and human readable). This is controled by the **--yaml** or **--json** flags (JSON is the default).
 
 ### Simple CLI examples
 

README.rst

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Cloudflare API version 4
 
 The Cloudflare API can be found `here <https://api.cloudflare.com/>`__.
 Each API call is provided via a similarly named function within the
-*CloudFlare* class. A full list is provided below.
+**CloudFlare** class. A full list is provided below.
 
 Example code
 ------------
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ A more complex example follows.
 Providing Cloudflare Username and API Key
 -----------------------------------------
 
-When you create a *CloudFlare* class you can pass up to four paramaters.
+When you create a **CloudFlare** class you can pass up to four
+paramaters.
 
 -  Account email
 -  Account API key
@@ -459,11 +460,12 @@ formats to use.
 The simplest form is ``item=value``. This passes the value as a string
 within the APIs JSON data.
 
-If you need a numeric value passed then *==* can be used to force the
+If you need a numeric value passed then **==** can be used to force the
 value to be treated as a numeric value within the APIs JSON data. For
 example: ``item==value``.
 
-if you need to pass a list of items; then *[]* can be used. For example:
+if you need to pass a list of items; then **[]** can be used. For
+example:
 
 ::
 
@@ -472,12 +474,22 @@ if you need to pass a list of items; then *[]* can be used. For example:
     pool_id3="33333333333333333333333333333333"
     cli4 --post global_pools="[ ${pool_id1}, ${pool_id2}, ${pool_id3} ]" region_pools="[ ]" /user/load_balancers/maps
 
+Data or parameters can be either named or unnamed. It can not be both.
+Named is the majority format; as described above. Unnamed parameters
+simply don't have anything before the **=** sign, as in ``=value``. This
+format is presently only used by the Cloudflare Load Balancer API calls.
+For example:
+
+::
+
+    cli4 --put ="[ 00000000000000000000000000000000 ]" /user/load_balancers/maps/:00000000000000000000000000000000/region/WNAM
+
 CLI output
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
 The output from the CLI command is in JSON or YAML format (and human
-readable). This is controled by the *--yaml* or *--json* flags (JSON is
-the default).
+readable). This is controled by the **--yaml** or **--json** flags (JSON
+is the default).
 
 Simple CLI examples
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cli4/cli4.py

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def cli4(args):
              + '[-V|--version] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [-q|--quiet] [-j|--json] [-y|--yaml] '
              + '[-r|--raw] '
              + '[-d|--dump] '
-             + '[--get|--patch|--post|-put|--delete] '
+             + '[--get|--patch|--post|--put|--delete] '
              + '[item=value ...] '
              + '/command...')
 
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def cli4(args):
     digits_only = re.compile('^[0-9]+$')
 
     # next grab the params. These are in the form of tag=value
-    params = {}
+    params = None
     while len(args) > 0 and '=' in args[0]:
         tag_string, value_string = args.pop(0).split('=', 1)
         if value_string == 'true':
@@ -213,8 +213,22 @@ def cli4(args):
                 exit('cli4: %s="%s" - can\'t parse json value' % (tag_string, value_string))
         else:
             value = value_string
-        tag = tag_string
-        params[tag] = value
+        if tag_string == '':
+            # There's no tag; it's just an unnamed list
+            if params == None:
+                params = []
+            try:
+                params.append(value)
+            except AttributeError:
+                exit('cli4: %s=%s - param error. Can\'t mix unnamed and named list' % (tag_string, value_string))
+        else:
+            if params == None:
+                params = {}
+            tag = tag_string
+            try:
+                params[tag] = value
+            except TypeError:
+                exit('cli4: %s=%s - param error. Can\'t mix unnamed and named list' % (tag_string, value_string))
 
     if dump:
         cf = CloudFlare.CloudFlare()