Discuss whether or not we should implement ``CLI Plugins``

[evrose54]

Requested Update

Description

Per Jeremy's comment on #465.

What I'd like to do in the long-run, though, is add the ability to have CLI plugins.

We should discuss whether CLI plugins are needed. Maybe they'd be useless after creating the order-based procflow, though.

I'm not sure how we'd exactly implement CLI Plugins, but I could see their use cases. It might simplify the CLI a bit more and could be used internally throughout other locations of the code. We'd need to implement an internal version of the CLI that'd output dictionaries, lists, etc. rather than sys.stout based output, but that wouldn't be too hard of a refactor.

This is largely just a discussion issue to determine whether or not this factor would be worth it, and what benefits would stem from this change.

Background and Motivation

This comes from this comment on #465.

Alternative Solutions

Leave the code as-is.

Code to demonstrate issue

geoips.commandline.geoips_run:GeoipsRunDataFusion

Checklist for Completion

• [ ] Discuss whether or not CLI Plugins are worth it in the long run
  • [ ] If they are, discuss how we'd like to implement them
  • [ ] Refactor the CLI to support this type of structure
  • [ ] Implement them
  • [ ] Discuss where else in the code we'd like to use these plugins
  • [ ] Refactor the code to use those plugins.

[jsolbrig]

I don't think that I see a use case for this anymore. Closing.