Added autocompletion for EC files

Author: Crivella

easybuild/cli/__init__.py

@@ -16,25 +16,27 @@
         click, original_click
     ])
 
-from .options import EasyBuildCliOption
+from .options import EasyBuildCliOption, EasyconfigParam
 
 from easybuild.main import main_with_hooks
 
 
 @click.command()
 @EasyBuildCliOption.apply_options
 @click.pass_context
-@click.argument('other_args', nargs=-1, type=click.UNPROCESSED, required=False)
+@click.argument('other_args', nargs=-1, type=EasyconfigParam(), required=False)
 def eb(ctx, other_args):
     """EasyBuild command line interface."""
     args = []
     for key, value in getattr(ctx, 'hidden_params', {}).items():
         key = key.replace('_', '-')
+        opt = EasyBuildCliOption.OPTIONS_MAP[key]
+        if value in ['False', 'True']:
+            value = value == 'True'
         if isinstance(value, bool):
             if value:
                 args.append(f"--{key}")
         else:
-            opt = EasyBuildCliOption.OPTIONS_MAP[key]
             if value and value != opt.default:
                 if isinstance(value, (list, tuple)) and value:
                     if isinstance(value[0], list):

easybuild/cli/options/__init__.py

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 
 from click.shell_completion import CompletionItem
-from easybuild.tools.options import EasyBuildOptions
+from easybuild.tools.options import EasyBuildOptions, set_up_configuration
+from easybuild.tools.robot import search_easyconfigs
+
 
 opt_group = {}
 try:
@@ -89,6 +91,17 @@ def shell_complete(self, ctx, param, incomplete):
         return super().shell_complete(ctx, param, last)
 
 
+class EasyconfigParam(click.ParamType):
+    """Custom Click parameter type for easyconfig parameters."""
+    name = 'easyconfig'
+
+    def shell_complete(self, ctx, param, incomplete):
+        if not incomplete:
+            return []
+        set_up_configuration(args=["--ignore-index"], silent=True, reconfigure=True)
+        return [CompletionItem(ec) for ec in search_easyconfigs(fr'^{incomplete}.*\.eb$', filename_only=True)]
+
+
 @dataclass
 class OptionData:
     name: str