[Plugins] Adding Command Line Arguments in Plugins

[softhub-software-development]

In v2.3.1 it was possible to define command line parameters in plugins like the following:

flags.add_argument(
'--some-arg',
 type=str,
 default='something',
 help='some help text'
)

In later versions, like v2.4.0.rc6, in case the parameter is used in an embedded scenario,
that is, proxy.main() is called with kwargs, one would need to specially handle arguments in flags.py.


args.some_arg = cast(
Optional[str], opts.get(
'some_arg',
 args.some_arg,
),
)


otherwise the default value of the argument is always used and there is no way to overwrite
the flag in the command line.

[abhinavsingh]

@softhub-software-development You most likely ran into #871

[abhinavsingh]

Closed as duplicate. Work around is mentioned in the parent issue. Kindly use the same. Happy to see contributions fixing it :D

[abhinavsingh]

Also see skeleton app https://github.com/abhinavsingh/proxy.py/blob/develop/skeleton/app/app.py#L22 which was added as a starter template