Bug #6599: [SDKs] Whenever `arv` has an invalid resource name argument, it should complain about that - Arvados

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[SDKs] Whenever `arv` has an invalid resource name argument, it should complain about that

Added by Brett Smith almost 9 years ago. Updated about 2 months ago.

Status:

New

Priority:

Normal

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Category:

SDKs

Target version:

Future

Story points:

0.5

Release:

Postponed

Release relationship:

Auto

Description

Consider this terminal session:

(arv)locke % arv foo list --filters='[["uuid", "=", "zzzzz-yyyyy-abcde12345abcde"]]'
Error: unknown argument '--filters'.
Try --help for help.

The error leads the user to wonder what's wrong with --filters. Maybe it should be --filter instead? But no, the real problem is that foo is not a valid subcommand or resource name, so there's nothing to be done with it.

In this case, arv should report that foo is not a recognized subcommand or resource, then list the available subcommands and resources for the user's reference.