What's the recommended way to use both splunk.Intersplunk.getKeywordsAndOptions
and splunk.Intersplunk.isGetInfo
within a python search command?
I would like to use both of these features at the same time, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this.
(isgetinfo, args) = splunk.Intersplunk.isGetInfo(sys.argv)
...
args, kwargs = splunk.Intersplunk.getKeywordsAndOptions()
This ends up with either __GETINFO__
or __EXECUTE__
as the first value in args
.
The idiom in diff.py and trendline.py that we ship with is to call isGetInfo
very early on in execution, like:
(isgetinfo, sys.argv) = splunk.Intersplunk.isGetInfo(sys.argv)
Note that this may not work on Windows where getKeywordsAndOptions
uses a source other than sys.argv
.
I guess that would work, unless you are running windows, which doesn't seem like there is a solution to that (short of building your own getKeywordsAndOptions
function) It seems odd to me that isGetInfo()
requires "args" to be passed in, and then getKeywordsAndOptions()
doesn't allow you to specify the "args".