Generalize argparsing

[PicoCentauri]

Our approach of parsing the analysis classes and building an argparse object based on the docstring works good for arbitrary parameters. However, currently it is deeply buried and tightly bound to this library.

I often have the same problem that I have a certain function and I want to build a simple command line interface from it. Currently, this involves a lot of copy and pasting. Here, we have everything in place and one just has to generalize everything a bit. There already exists a nice reference implementation which is not as general as what we did here.

If anybody wants to tackle this I already started a little branch which is not working at all but maybe allows for a little headstart.

[joaomcteixeira]

That's a nice project!
I am not sure if there is any library specific for this purpose. But there are libraries that do similar or related things, as you noted one of them. Good luck! I will keep an eye on it 😉
But, would it be great if you do a general new repository and make it a plugin library for a for project? You would add it to the big library and provide just an import list of the methods you would want to create a CLI for. and the magic happens.

[spyke7]

@PicoCentauri can I work on this? I will be working on this in a separate branch....

[PicoCentauri]

Sure!

[minowau]

Is this assigned to anyone or still can be worked upon?

[PicoCentauri]

I think @spyke7 wanted to take a look at it.

[spyke7]

He can work on this as well
I'm also working, it's ok..🙂

[PicoCentauri]

Sure you can both collaborate and we can also have a brainstorming session.

[minowau]

Sure, if possible we could work together @spyke7 . Thank you.