That highly required to hide passwords from command line arguments and for other tasks too.
I think this library is a very good place to provide such a solution, as it used as a base for plugins.
My proposal is to add common/standart solution for this task into library, which already has 'ArgumentParser' part. That part should become smart to properly handle the --extra-opts option and support reading options from a given configuration file.
Then any of Python plugins that use this library will be able to handle arguments defined in file without (or with minor) code changes.
I'm not a Python developer, so I can't suggest an implementation.
Thanks for your project.
mpounsett
commented
3 years ago
It would be nice to provide common/standart solution for plugins to support "Extra-Opts", like done in C and Perl plugins: https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/extra-opts.html.
That highly required to hide passwords from command line arguments and for other tasks too. I think this library is a very good place to provide such a solution, as it used as a base for plugins.
My proposal is to add common/standart solution for this task into library, which already has 'ArgumentParser' part. That part should become smart to properly handle the --extra-opts option and support reading options from a given configuration file. Then any of Python plugins that use this library will be able to handle arguments defined in file without (or with minor) code changes.
I'm not a Python developer, so I can't suggest an implementation. Thanks for your project.