Add or document installing from console feature

[NameFILIP]

I want to create a script that installs a set of most popular packages for a Front end developer (Emmet, LESS, Sass, SideBarEnhancements, EditorConfig, etc).

In order to accomplish this, it would be nice to have an ability not only to Install Package by hands, but also from console or command line. Something like PC.install_package("package_name/url")

P.S. I guess such functionality more or less already exists, but not well documented.

[FichteFoll]

You are correct, such functionality exists in form of the advanced_install_package command.

It's not documented on https://packagecontrol.io/docs/usage though.

Edit: I just noticed that the docstring of AdvancedInstallPackageCommand.on_done is totally inaccurate and a copy-paste error.

If you need to add the repository first, I suppose there is something that PC could be improved upon. Either by accepting arguments in the add_repository command or by allowing urls to be specified in the advanced_install_package command. The former sounds clearer to me use-case-wise and easier to implement.

[NameFILIP]

Sorry, unfortunately, my Python skills are not as good as Java or JavaScript. How do I use the AdvancedInstallPackageCommand?

I've tried running AdvancedInstallPackageCommand.run(..) in the Sublime's Console, but it returns NameError: name 'AdvancedInstallPackageCommand' is not defined

[wbond]

It isn't that I don't want to tell you the exact answer, but instead I encourage you to look at the ST docs here so you can learn more about Sublime Text. This will be useful if you are intending to build something on top of Package Control. https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html

[NameFILIP]

I've spend about an hour trying to figure out how to make it work. I would appreciate some guidance.

As I said, I am far from Python expert. The code that almost works:

import package_control.commands.advanced_install_package_command
package_control.commands.advanced_install_package_command.AdvancedInstallPackageCommand.run("Emmet, SideBarEnhancements")

The problem is that here the first parameter is self. I've tried to pass package_control.commands.advanced_install_package_command.AdvancedInstallPackageCommand there, but unsuccessfully. So what should I pass there?

[FichteFoll]

I'll give you a few tips. Hopefully not too much, but it seems you are really missing the fundamentals.

First, the self parameter is the reference to the object instance in particular since this is a "bound" method. Pretty much like this in C++ and Java but more flexible. So, technically you would need to create a new instance first by calling the constructor (inherited from sublime_plugin.WindowCommand) and then call the run method of that object. However, this is not how commands work in Sublime Text.

So the second tip is: There are API functions to "run" commands. Commands are the main interface between anything that registers events and anything that does something in ST (key bindings, menu items, the command palette all use the "command interface"). Maybe this is worth a read.

And the final tip, command names of Python classes (that subclass a sublime_plugin.*Command class) are automatically converted to snake_case and the trailing Command is stripped, so the above command name would be converted to advanced_install_package, as indicated by my link text.

[deathaxe]

All major commands are available from command line in Package Control.

see: #1597 (comment)