django-typer 3.6.2
Use Typer to define the CLI for your Django management commands.
Requires Python: <4.0,>=3.10
Keywords: CLI, Typer, commands, django, management

# django-typer


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Use static typing to define the CLI for your [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) management commands with [Typer](https://typer.tiangolo.com/). Optionally use the provided [TyperCommand](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#django_typer.TyperCommand) class that inherits from [BaseCommand](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/custom-management-commands/#django.core.management.BaseCommand). This class maps the [Typer](https://typer.tiangolo.com/) interface onto a class based interface that Django developers will be familiar with. All of the [BaseCommand](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/custom-management-commands/#django.core.management.BaseCommand) functionality is inherited, so that [TyperCommand](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#django_typer.TyperCommand) can be a drop in replacement.

**django-typer makes it easy to:**

   * Define your command CLI interface in a clear, DRY and safe way using type hints
   * Create subcommands and hierarchical groups of commands.
   * Use the full power of [Typer](https://typer.tiangolo.com/)'s parameter types to validate and parse command line inputs.
   * Create beautiful and information dense help outputs.
   * Configure the rendering of exception stack traces using [rich](https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
   * [Install shell tab-completion support](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/shell_completion.html) for [bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/), [zsh](https://www.zsh.org/), [fish](https://fishshell.com/), and [powershell](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/overview).
   * [Create custom and portable shell tab-completions for your CLI parameters.](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/shell_completion.html#defining-custom-completions)
   * Port existing commands ([TyperCommand](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#django_typer.TyperCommand) is interface compatible with [BaseCommand](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/custom-management-commands/#django.core.management.BaseCommand)).
   * Use either a Django-style class-based interface or the Typer-style interface to define commands.
   * Add plugins to upstream commands.

Please refer to the [full documentation](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/) for more information.

![django-typer example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/doc/source/_static/img/closepoll_example.gif)

## 🚨 Upgrade Notice

**There are breaking changes between 2.x and 3.x, mostly involving shell tab completion. [See the changelog for migration steps](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#migrating-from-2-x-to-3-x)**.

## Installation

1. Clone django-typer from GitHub or install a release off [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/django-typer/):

   ```bash
   pip install django-typer
   ```

   [rich](https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) is a powerful library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. It is not required but highly recommended for the best experience:

   ```bash
   pip install "django-typer[rich]"
   ```

2. Optionally add `django_typer` to your `INSTALLED_APPS` setting:

   ```python
   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'django_typer',
   ]
   ```

*You only need to install django_typer as an app if you want to use the shell completion command to enable tab-completion or if you would like django-typer to install [rich traceback rendering](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto.html#configure-rich-stack-traces) for you - which it does by default if rich is also installed.*

## Basic Example

[TyperCommand](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#django_typer.TyperCommand) is a drop in extension to [BaseCommand](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/custom-management-commands/#django.core.management.BaseCommand). All of the documented features of [BaseCommand](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/custom-management-commands/#django.core.management.BaseCommand) work the same way!

```python
from django_typer.management import TyperCommand

class Command(TyperCommand):
    def handle(self, arg1: str, arg2: str, arg3: float = 0.5, arg4: int = 1):
        """
        A basic command that uses Typer
        """
```

Or, you may also use an interface identical to [Typer](https://typer.tiangolo.com/)'s. Simply import [Typer](https://typer.tiangolo.com/) from django_typer instead of typer.

```python
from django_typer.management import Typer

app = Typer()

@app.command()
def main(arg1: str, arg2: str, arg3: float = 0.5, arg4: int = 1):
   """
   A basic command that uses Typer
   """
```

![Basic Example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/basic.svg)

## Multiple Subcommands Example



Commands with multiple subcommands can be defined:

```python
   import typing as t

   from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
   from typer import Argument

   from django_typer.management import TyperCommand, command


   class Command(TyperCommand):
      """
      A command that defines subcommands.
      """

      @command()
      def create(
         self,
         name: t.Annotated[str, Argument(help=_("The name of the object to create."))],
      ):
         """
         Create an object.
         """

      @command()
      def delete(
         self, id: t.Annotated[int, Argument(help=_("The id of the object to delete."))]
      ):
         """
         Delete an object.
         """

```

Or using the typer-style interface this could be written:

```python
from django_typer.management import Typer
import typing as t

from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
from typer import Argument

app = Typer(help="A command that defines subcommands.")

@app.command()
def create(
   name: t.Annotated[str, Argument(help=_("The name of the object to create."))],
):
   """
   Create an object.
   """

@app.command()
def delete(
   id: t.Annotated[int, Argument(help=_("The id of the object to delete."))]
):
   """
   Delete an object.
   """
```

![Multiple Subcommands Example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/multi.svg)
![Multiple Subcommands Example - create](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/multi_create.svg)
![Multiple Subcommands Example - delete](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/multi_delete.svg)


## Grouping and Hierarchies Example

More complex groups and subcommand hierarchies can be defined. For example, this command defines a group of commands called math, with subcommands divide and multiply. The group has a common initializer that optionally sets a float precision value. We would invoke this command like so:

```bash
./manage.py hierarchy math --precision 5 divide 10 2.1
./manage.py hierarchy math multiply 10 2
```

Using the class-based interface we could define the command like this:

```python
   import typing as t
   from functools import reduce

   from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
   from typer import Argument, Option

   from django_typer.management import TyperCommand, group


   class Command(TyperCommand):

      help = _("A more complex command that defines a hierarchy of subcommands.")

      precision = 2

      @group(help=_("Do some math at the given precision."))
      def math(
         self,
         precision: t.Annotated[
            int, Option(help=_("The number of decimal places to output."))
         ] = precision,
      ):
         self.precision = precision

      # helps can be passed to the decorators
      @math.command(help=_("Multiply the given numbers."))
      def multiply(
         self,
         numbers: t.Annotated[
            t.List[float], Argument(help=_("The numbers to multiply"))
         ],
      ):
         return f"{reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, [1, *numbers]):.{self.precision}f}"

      # or if no help is supplied to the decorators, the docstring if present
      # will be used!
      @math.command()
      def divide(
         self,
         numerator: t.Annotated[float, Argument(help=_("The numerator"))],
         denominator: t.Annotated[float, Argument(help=_("The denominator"))],
         floor: t.Annotated[bool, Option(help=_("Use floor division"))] = False,
      ):
         """
         Divide the given numbers.
         """
         if floor:
               return str(numerator // denominator)
         return f"{numerator / denominator:.{self.precision}f}"

```

The typer-style interface builds a [TyperCommand](https://django-typer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#django_typer.TyperCommand) class for us **that allows you to optionally accept the self argument in your commands.** We could define the above command using the typer interface like this:

```python

import typing as t
from functools import reduce

from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
from typer import Argument, Option

from django_typer.management import Typer


app = Typer(help=_("A more complex command that defines a hierarchy of subcommands."))


math_grp = Typer(help=_("Do some math at the given precision."))

app.add_typer(math_grp, name="math")

@math_grp.callback()
def math(
   self,
   precision: t.Annotated[
      int, Option(help=_("The number of decimal places to output."))
   ] = 2,
):
   self.precision = precision


@math_grp.command(help=_("Multiply the given numbers."))
def multiply(
   self,
   numbers: t.Annotated[
      t.List[float], Argument(help=_("The numbers to multiply"))
   ],
):
   return f"{reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, [1, *numbers]):.{self.precision}f}"

@math_grp.command()
def divide(
   self,
   numerator: t.Annotated[float, Argument(help=_("The numerator"))],
   denominator: t.Annotated[float, Argument(help=_("The denominator"))],
   floor: t.Annotated[bool, Option(help=_("Use floor division"))] = False,
):
   """
   Divide the given numbers.
   """
   if floor:
         return str(numerator // denominator)
   return f"{numerator / denominator:.{self.precision}f}"
```

![Grouping and Hierarchies Example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/hierarchy.svg)
![Grouping and Hierarchies Example - math](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/hierarchy_math.svg)
![Grouping and Hierarchies Example - math multiply](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/hierarchy_math_multiply.svg)
![Grouping and Hierarchies Example - math divide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django-commons/django-typer/main/examples/helps/hierarchy_math_divide.svg)