powershell completion with custom comp (#1208)

The current powershell completion is not very capable.

Let's port it to the go custom completion logic to have a
unified experience accross all shells.

Powershell supports three different completion modes

- TabCompleteNext (default windows style - on each key press the next option is displayed)
- Complete (works like bash)
- MenuComplete (works like zsh)

You set the mode with `Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function <mode>`

To keep it backwards compatible `GenPowerShellCompletion` will not display descriptions.
Use `GenPowerShellCompletionWithDesc` instead. Descriptions will only be displayed with
`MenuComplete` or `Complete`.

Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <paul.holzinger@web.de>
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// PowerShell completions are based on the amazing work from clap:
// https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/blob/3294d18efe5f264d12c9035f404c7d189d4824e1/src/completions/powershell.rs
//
// The generated scripts require PowerShell v5.0+ (which comes Windows 10, but
// can be downloaded separately for windows 7 or 8.1).
@ -11,90 +8,278 @@ import (
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
"strings"
"github.com/spf13/pflag"
)
var powerShellCompletionTemplate = `using namespace System.Management.Automation
using namespace System.Management.Automation.Language
Register-ArgumentCompleter -Native -CommandName '%s' -ScriptBlock {
param($wordToComplete, $commandAst, $cursorPosition)
$commandElements = $commandAst.CommandElements
$command = @(
'%s'
for ($i = 1; $i -lt $commandElements.Count; $i++) {
$element = $commandElements[$i]
if ($element -isnot [StringConstantExpressionAst] -or
$element.StringConstantType -ne [StringConstantType]::BareWord -or
$element.Value.StartsWith('-')) {
break
}
$element.Value
func genPowerShellComp(buf *bytes.Buffer, name string, includeDesc bool) {
compCmd := ShellCompRequestCmd
if !includeDesc {
compCmd = ShellCompNoDescRequestCmd
}
buf.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(`# powershell completion for %-36[1]s -*- shell-script -*-
function __%[1]s_debug {
if ($env:BASH_COMP_DEBUG_FILE) {
"$args" | Out-File -Append -FilePath "$env:BASH_COMP_DEBUG_FILE"
}
}
filter __%[1]s_escapeStringWithSpecialChars {
`+" $_ -replace '\\s|#|@|\\$|;|,|''|\\{|\\}|\\(|\\)|\"|`|\\||<|>|&','`$&'"+`
}
Register-ArgumentCompleter -CommandName '%[1]s' -ScriptBlock {
param(
$WordToComplete,
$CommandAst,
$CursorPosition
)
# Get the current command line and convert into a string
$Command = $CommandAst.CommandElements
$Command = "$Command"
__%[1]s_debug ""
__%[1]s_debug "========= starting completion logic =========="
__%[1]s_debug "WordToComplete: $WordToComplete Command: $Command CursorPosition: $CursorPosition"
# The user could have moved the cursor backwards on the command-line.
# We need to trigger completion from the $CursorPosition location, so we need
# to truncate the command-line ($Command) up to the $CursorPosition location.
# Make sure the $Command is longer then the $CursorPosition before we truncate.
# This happens because the $Command does not include the last space.
if ($Command.Length -gt $CursorPosition) {
$Command=$Command.Substring(0,$CursorPosition)
}
__%[1]s_debug "Truncated command: $Command"
$ShellCompDirectiveError=%[3]d
$ShellCompDirectiveNoSpace=%[4]d
$ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp=%[5]d
$ShellCompDirectiveFilterFileExt=%[6]d
$ShellCompDirectiveFilterDirs=%[7]d
# Prepare the command to request completions for the program.
# Split the command at the first space to separate the program and arguments.
$Program,$Arguments = $Command.Split(" ",2)
$RequestComp="$Program %[2]s $Arguments"
__%[1]s_debug "RequestComp: $RequestComp"
# we cannot use $WordToComplete because it
# has the wrong values if the cursor was moved
# so use the last argument
if ($WordToComplete -ne "" ) {
$WordToComplete = $Arguments.Split(" ")[-1]
}
__%[1]s_debug "New WordToComplete: $WordToComplete"
# Check for flag with equal sign
$IsEqualFlag = ($WordToComplete -Like "--*=*" )
if ( $IsEqualFlag ) {
__%[1]s_debug "Completing equal sign flag"
# Remove the flag part
$Flag,$WordToComplete = $WordToComplete.Split("=",2)
}
if ( $WordToComplete -eq "" -And ( -Not $IsEqualFlag )) {
# If the last parameter is complete (there is a space following it)
# We add an extra empty parameter so we can indicate this to the go method.
__%[1]s_debug "Adding extra empty parameter"
`+" # We need to use `\"`\" to pass an empty argument a \"\" or '' does not work!!!"+`
`+" $RequestComp=\"$RequestComp\" + ' `\"`\"' "+`
}
__%[1]s_debug "Calling $RequestComp"
#call the command store the output in $out and redirect stderr and stdout to null
# $Out is an array contains each line per element
Invoke-Expression -OutVariable out "$RequestComp" 2>&1 | Out-Null
# get directive from last line
[int]$Directive = $Out[-1].TrimStart(':')
if ($Directive -eq "") {
# There is no directive specified
$Directive = 0
}
__%[1]s_debug "The completion directive is: $Directive"
# remove directive (last element) from out
$Out = $Out | Where-Object { $_ -ne $Out[-1] }
__%[1]s_debug "The completions are: $Out"
if (($Directive -band $ShellCompDirectiveError) -ne 0 ) {
# Error code. No completion.
__%[1]s_debug "Received error from custom completion go code"
return
}
$Longest = 0
$Values = $Out | ForEach-Object {
#Split the output in name and description
`+" $Name, $Description = $_.Split(\"`t\",2)"+`
__%[1]s_debug "Name: $Name Description: $Description"
# Look for the longest completion so that we can format things nicely
if ($Longest -lt $Name.Length) {
$Longest = $Name.Length
}
) -join ';'
$completions = @(switch ($command) {%s
})
$completions.Where{ $_.CompletionText -like "$wordToComplete*" } |
Sort-Object -Property ListItemText
}`
func generatePowerShellSubcommandCases(out io.Writer, cmd *Command, previousCommandName string) {
var cmdName string
if previousCommandName == "" {
cmdName = cmd.Name()
} else {
cmdName = fmt.Sprintf("%s;%s", previousCommandName, cmd.Name())
}
# Set the description to a one space string if there is none set.
# This is needed because the CompletionResult does not accept an empty string as argument
if (-Not $Description) {
$Description = " "
}
@{Name="$Name";Description="$Description"}
}
fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n '%s' {", cmdName)
cmd.Flags().VisitAll(func(flag *pflag.Flag) {
if nonCompletableFlag(flag) {
return
}
usage := escapeStringForPowerShell(flag.Usage)
if len(flag.Shorthand) > 0 {
fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n [CompletionResult]::new('-%s', '%s', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, '%s')", flag.Shorthand, flag.Shorthand, usage)
}
fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n [CompletionResult]::new('--%s', '%s', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, '%s')", flag.Name, flag.Name, usage)
})
$Space = " "
if (($Directive -band $ShellCompDirectiveNoSpace) -ne 0 ) {
# remove the space here
__%[1]s_debug "ShellCompDirectiveNoSpace is called"
$Space = ""
}
for _, subCmd := range cmd.Commands() {
usage := escapeStringForPowerShell(subCmd.Short)
fmt.Fprintf(out, "\n [CompletionResult]::new('%s', '%s', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '%s')", subCmd.Name(), subCmd.Name(), usage)
}
if (($Directive -band $ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp) -ne 0 ) {
__%[1]s_debug "ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp is called"
if ($Values.Length -eq 0) {
# Just print an empty string here so the
# shell does not start to complete paths.
# We cannot use CompletionResult here because
# it does not accept an empty string as argument.
""
return
}
}
fmt.Fprint(out, "\n break\n }")
if ((($Directive -band $ShellCompDirectiveFilterFileExt) -ne 0 ) -or
(($Directive -band $ShellCompDirectiveFilterDirs) -ne 0 )) {
__%[1]s_debug "ShellCompDirectiveFilterFileExt ShellCompDirectiveFilterDirs are not supported"
for _, subCmd := range cmd.Commands() {
generatePowerShellSubcommandCases(out, subCmd, cmdName)
}
# return here to prevent the completion of the extensions
return
}
$Values = $Values | Where-Object {
# filter the result
$_.Name -like "$WordToComplete*"
# Join the flag back if we have a equal sign flag
if ( $IsEqualFlag ) {
__%[1]s_debug "Join the equal sign flag back to the completion value"
$_.Name = $Flag + "=" + $_.Name
}
}
# Get the current mode
$Mode = (Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler | Where-Object {$_.Key -eq "Tab" }).Function
__%[1]s_debug "Mode: $Mode"
$Values | ForEach-Object {
# store temporay because switch will overwrite $_
$comp = $_
# Powershell supports three different completion modes
# - TabCompleteNext (default windows style - on each key press the next option is displayed)
# - Complete (works like bash)
# - MenuComplete (works like zsh)
# You set the mode with Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function <mode>
# CompletionResult Arguments:
# 1) CompletionText text to be used as the auto completion result
# 2) ListItemText text to be displayed in the suggestion list
# 3) ResultType type of completion result
# 4) ToolTip text for the tooltip with details about the object
switch ($Mode) {
# bash like
"Complete" {
if ($Values.Length -eq 1) {
__%[1]s_debug "Only one completion left"
# insert space after value
[System.Management.Automation.CompletionResult]::new($($comp.Name | __%[1]s_escapeStringWithSpecialChars) + $Space, "$($comp.Name)", 'ParameterValue', "$($comp.Description)")
} else {
# Add the proper number of spaces to align the descriptions
while($comp.Name.Length -lt $Longest) {
$comp.Name = $comp.Name + " "
}
# Check for empty description and only add parentheses if needed
if ($($comp.Description) -eq " " ) {
$Description = ""
} else {
$Description = " ($($comp.Description))"
}
[System.Management.Automation.CompletionResult]::new("$($comp.Name)$Description", "$($comp.Name)$Description", 'ParameterValue', "$($comp.Description)")
}
}
# zsh like
"MenuComplete" {
# insert space after value
# MenuComplete will automatically show the ToolTip of
# the highlighted value at the bottom of the suggestions.
[System.Management.Automation.CompletionResult]::new($($comp.Name | __%[1]s_escapeStringWithSpecialChars) + $Space, "$($comp.Name)", 'ParameterValue', "$($comp.Description)")
}
# TabCompleteNext and in case we get something unknown
Default {
# Like MenuComplete but we don't want to add a space here because
# the user need to press space anyway to get the completion.
# Description will not be shown because thats not possible with TabCompleteNext
[System.Management.Automation.CompletionResult]::new($($comp.Name | __%[1]s_escapeStringWithSpecialChars), "$($comp.Name)", 'ParameterValue', "$($comp.Description)")
}
}
}
}
`, name, compCmd,
ShellCompDirectiveError, ShellCompDirectiveNoSpace, ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp,
ShellCompDirectiveFilterFileExt, ShellCompDirectiveFilterDirs))
}
func escapeStringForPowerShell(s string) string {
return strings.Replace(s, "'", "''", -1)
}
// GenPowerShellCompletion generates PowerShell completion file and writes to the passed writer.
func (c *Command) GenPowerShellCompletion(w io.Writer) error {
func (c *Command) genPowerShellCompletion(w io.Writer, includeDesc bool) error {
buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
var subCommandCases bytes.Buffer
generatePowerShellSubcommandCases(&subCommandCases, c, "")
fmt.Fprintf(buf, powerShellCompletionTemplate, c.Name(), c.Name(), subCommandCases.String())
genPowerShellComp(buf, c.Name(), includeDesc)
_, err := buf.WriteTo(w)
return err
}
// GenPowerShellCompletionFile generates PowerShell completion file.
func (c *Command) GenPowerShellCompletionFile(filename string) error {
func (c *Command) genPowerShellCompletionFile(filename string, includeDesc bool) error {
outFile, err := os.Create(filename)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer outFile.Close()
return c.GenPowerShellCompletion(outFile)
return c.genPowerShellCompletion(outFile, includeDesc)
}
// GenPowerShellCompletionFile generates powershell completion file without descriptions.
func (c *Command) GenPowerShellCompletionFile(filename string) error {
return c.genPowerShellCompletionFile(filename, false)
}
// GenPowerShellCompletion generates powershell completion file without descriptions
// and writes it to the passed writer.
func (c *Command) GenPowerShellCompletion(w io.Writer) error {
return c.genPowerShellCompletion(w, false)
}
// GenPowerShellCompletionFileWithDesc generates powershell completion file with descriptions.
func (c *Command) GenPowerShellCompletionFileWithDesc(filename string) error {
return c.genPowerShellCompletionFile(filename, true)
}
// GenPowerShellCompletionWithDesc generates powershell completion file with descriptions
// and writes it to the passed writer.
func (c *Command) GenPowerShellCompletionWithDesc(w io.Writer) error {
return c.genPowerShellCompletion(w, true)
}

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# Generating PowerShell Completions For Your Own cobra.Command
Cobra can generate PowerShell completion scripts. Users need PowerShell version 5.0 or above, which comes with Windows 10 and can be downloaded separately for Windows 7 or 8.1. They can then write the completions to a file and source this file from their PowerShell profile, which is referenced by the `$Profile` environment variable. See `Get-Help about_Profiles` for more info about PowerShell profiles.
*Note*: PowerShell completions have not (yet?) been aligned to Cobra's generic shell completion support. This implies the PowerShell completions are not as rich as for other shells (see [What's not yet supported](#whats-not-yet-supported)), and may behave slightly differently. They are still very useful for PowerShell users.
# What's supported
- Completion for subcommands using their `.Short` description
- Completion for non-hidden flags using their `.Name` and `.Shorthand`
# What's not yet supported
- Command aliases
- Required, filename or custom flags (they will work like normal flags)
- Custom completion scripts
Please refer to [Shell Completions](shell_completions.md#powershell-completions) for details.

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package cobra
import (
"bytes"
"strings"
"testing"
)
func TestPowerShellCompletion(t *testing.T) {
tcs := []struct {
name string
root *Command
expectedExpressions []string
}{
{
name: "trivial",
root: &Command{Use: "trivialapp"},
expectedExpressions: []string{
"Register-ArgumentCompleter -Native -CommandName 'trivialapp' -ScriptBlock",
"$command = @(\n 'trivialapp'\n",
},
},
{
name: "tree",
root: func() *Command {
r := &Command{Use: "tree"}
sub1 := &Command{Use: "sub1"}
r.AddCommand(sub1)
sub11 := &Command{Use: "sub11"}
sub12 := &Command{Use: "sub12"}
sub1.AddCommand(sub11)
sub1.AddCommand(sub12)
sub2 := &Command{Use: "sub2"}
r.AddCommand(sub2)
sub21 := &Command{Use: "sub21"}
sub22 := &Command{Use: "sub22"}
sub2.AddCommand(sub21)
sub2.AddCommand(sub22)
return r
}(),
expectedExpressions: []string{
"'tree'",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub1', 'sub1', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub2', 'sub2', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '')",
"'tree;sub1'",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub11', 'sub11', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub12', 'sub12', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '')",
"'tree;sub1;sub11'",
"'tree;sub1;sub12'",
"'tree;sub2'",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub21', 'sub21', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub22', 'sub22', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '')",
"'tree;sub2;sub21'",
"'tree;sub2;sub22'",
},
},
{
name: "flags",
root: func() *Command {
r := &Command{Use: "flags"}
r.Flags().StringP("flag1", "a", "", "")
r.Flags().String("flag2", "", "")
sub1 := &Command{Use: "sub1"}
sub1.Flags().StringP("flag3", "c", "", "")
r.AddCommand(sub1)
return r
}(),
expectedExpressions: []string{
"'flags'",
"[CompletionResult]::new('-a', 'a', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, '')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('--flag1', 'flag1', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, '')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('--flag2', 'flag2', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, '')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub1', 'sub1', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, '')",
"'flags;sub1'",
"[CompletionResult]::new('-c', 'c', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, '')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('--flag3', 'flag3', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, '')",
},
},
{
name: "usage",
root: func() *Command {
r := &Command{Use: "usage"}
r.Flags().String("flag", "", "this describes the usage of the 'flag' flag")
sub1 := &Command{
Use: "sub1",
Short: "short describes 'sub1'",
}
r.AddCommand(sub1)
return r
}(),
expectedExpressions: []string{
"[CompletionResult]::new('--flag', 'flag', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'this describes the usage of the ''flag'' flag')",
"[CompletionResult]::new('sub1', 'sub1', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterValue, 'short describes ''sub1''')",
},
},
}
for _, tc := range tcs {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
tc.root.GenPowerShellCompletion(buf)
output := buf.String()
for _, expectedExpression := range tc.expectedExpressions {
if !strings.Contains(output, expectedExpression) {
t.Errorf("Expected completion to contain %q somewhere; got %q", expectedExpression, output)
}
}
})
}
}

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# To load completions for each session, execute once:
$ yourprogram completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/yourprogram.fish
Powershell:
PS> yourprogram completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression
# To load completions for every new session, run:
PS> yourprogram completion powershell > yourprogram.ps1
# and source this file from your powershell profile.
`,
DisableFlagsInUseLine: true,
ValidArgs: []string{"bash", "zsh", "fish", "powershell"},
@ -316,7 +324,7 @@ cmd.RegisterFlagCompletionFunc(flagName, func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string,
```
### Descriptions for completions
Both `zsh` and `fish` allow for descriptions to annotate completion choices. For commands and flags, Cobra will provide the descriptions automatically, based on usage information. For example, using zsh:
`zsh`, `fish` and `powershell` allow for descriptions to annotate completion choices. For commands and flags, Cobra will provide the descriptions automatically, based on usage information. For example, using zsh:
```
$ helm s[tab]
search -- search for a keyword in charts
@ -390,7 +398,7 @@ search show status
### Limitations
* Custom completions implemented in Bash scripting (legacy) are not supported and will be ignored for `zsh` (including the use of the `BashCompCustom` flag annotation).
* You should instead use `ValidArgsFunction` and `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()` which are portable to the different shells (`bash`, `zsh`, `fish`).
* You should instead use `ValidArgsFunction` and `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()` which are portable to the different shells (`bash`, `zsh`, `fish`, `powershell`).
* The function `MarkFlagCustom()` is not supported and will be ignored for `zsh`.
* You should instead use `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()`.
@ -416,7 +424,7 @@ search show status
### Limitations
* Custom completions implemented in Bash scripting (legacy) are not supported and will be ignored for `fish` (including the use of the `BashCompCustom` flag annotation).
* You should instead use `ValidArgsFunction` and `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()` which are portable to the different shells (`bash`, `zsh`, `fish`).
* You should instead use `ValidArgsFunction` and `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()` which are portable to the different shells (`bash`, `zsh`, `fish`, `powershell`).
* The function `MarkFlagCustom()` is not supported and will be ignored for `fish`.
* You should instead use `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()`.
* The following flag completion annotations are not supported and will be ignored for `fish`:
@ -431,4 +439,46 @@ search show status
## PowerShell completions
Please refer to [PowerShell Completions](powershell_completions.md) for details.
Cobra supports native PowerShell completions generated from the root `cobra.Command`. You can use the `command.GenPowerShellCompletion()` or `command.GenPowerShellCompletionFile()` functions. To include descriptions use `command.GenPowerShellCompletionWithDesc()` and `command.GenPowerShellCompletionFileWithDesc()`. Cobra will provide the description automatically based on usage information. You can choose to make this option configurable by your users.
The script is designed to support all three Powershell completion modes:
* TabCompleteNext (default windows style - on each key press the next option is displayed)
* Complete (works like bash)
* MenuComplete (works like zsh)
You set the mode with `Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function <mode>`. Descriptions are only displayed when using the `Complete` or `MenuComplete` mode.
Users need PowerShell version 5.0 or above, which comes with Windows 10 and can be downloaded separately for Windows 7 or 8.1. They can then write the completions to a file and source this file from their PowerShell profile, which is referenced by the `$Profile` environment variable. See `Get-Help about_Profiles` for more info about PowerShell profiles.
```
# With descriptions and Mode 'Complete'
$ helm s[tab]
search (search for a keyword in charts) show (show information of a chart) status (displays the status of the named release)
# With descriptions and Mode 'MenuComplete' The description of the current selected value will be displayed below the suggestions.
$ helm s[tab]
search show status
search for a keyword in charts
# Without descriptions
$ helm s[tab]
search show status
```
### Limitations
* Custom completions implemented in Bash scripting (legacy) are not supported and will be ignored for `powershell` (including the use of the `BashCompCustom` flag annotation).
* You should instead use `ValidArgsFunction` and `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()` which are portable to the different shells (`bash`, `zsh`, `fish`, `powershell`).
* The function `MarkFlagCustom()` is not supported and will be ignored for `powershell`.
* You should instead use `RegisterFlagCompletionFunc()`.
* The following flag completion annotations are not supported and will be ignored for `powershell`:
* `BashCompFilenameExt` (filtering by file extension)
* `BashCompSubdirsInDir` (filtering by directory)
* The functions corresponding to the above annotations are consequently not supported and will be ignored for `powershell`:
* `MarkFlagFilename()` and `MarkPersistentFlagFilename()` (filtering by file extension)
* `MarkFlagDirname()` and `MarkPersistentFlagDirname()` (filtering by directory)
* Similarly, the following completion directives are not supported and will be ignored for `powershell`:
* `ShellCompDirectiveFilterFileExt` (filtering by file extension)
* `ShellCompDirectiveFilterDirs` (filtering by directory)