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# Copyright (C) 2009-2012 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of GNU Mailman.
#
# GNU Mailman is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
# Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# GNU Mailman is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
# more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
# GNU Mailman.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

"""The 'mailman' command dispatcher."""

from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals

__metaclass__ = type
__all__ = [
    'main',
    ]


import os
import argparse

from zope.interface.verify import verifyObject

from mailman.app.finder import find_components
from mailman.core.i18n import _
from mailman.core.initialize import initialize
from mailman.interfaces.command import ICLISubCommand
from mailman.version import MAILMAN_VERSION_FULL



def main():
    """bin/mailman"""
    # Create the basic parser and add all globally common options.
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=_("""\
        The GNU Mailman mailing list management system
        Copyright 1998-2012 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
        http://www.list.org
        """),
        formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
    parser.add_argument(
        '-v', '--version',
        action='version', version=MAILMAN_VERSION_FULL,
        help=_('Print this version string and exit'))
    parser.add_argument(
        '-C', '--config',
        help=_("""\
        Configuration file to use.  If not given, the environment variable
        MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE is consulted and used if set.  If neither are
        given, a default configuration file is loaded."""))
    # Look at all modules in the mailman.bin package and if they are prepared
    # to add a subcommand, let them do so.  I'm still undecided as to whether
    # this should be pluggable or not.  If so, then we'll probably have to
    # partially parse the arguments now, then initialize the system, then find
    # the plugins.  Punt on this for now.
    subparser = parser.add_subparsers(title='Commands')
    subcommands = []
    for command_class in find_components('mailman.commands', ICLISubCommand):
        command = command_class()
        verifyObject(ICLISubCommand, command)
        subcommands.append(command)
    # --help should display the subcommands by alphabetical order, except that
    # 'mailman help' should be first.
    def sort_function(command, other):
        """Sorting helper."""
        if command.name == 'help':
            return -1
        elif other.name == 'help':
            return 1
        else:
            return cmp(command.name, other.name)
    subcommands.sort(cmp=sort_function)
    for command in subcommands:
        command_parser = subparser.add_parser(
            command.name, help=_(command.__doc__))
        command.add(parser, command_parser)
        command_parser.set_defaults(func=command.process)
    args = parser.parse_args()
    if len(args.__dict__) == 0:
        # No arguments or subcommands were given.
        parser.print_help()
        parser.exit()
    # Before actually performing the subcommand, we need to initialize the
    # Mailman system, and in particular, we must read the configuration file.
    config_file = os.getenv('MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE')
    if config_file is None:
        if args.config is not None:
            config_file = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(args.config))

    initialize(config_file)
    # Perform the subcommand option.
    args.func(args)