Try out Trogon for a tui interface

[simonw]

https://github.com/Textualize/trogon

[simonw]

I don't want to add trogon as a default dependency because it's a little heavy - it pulls in all of Rich and Textual as well. People who use sqlite-utils just for its Python API won't benefit from this - it's a CLI feature only.

But I have a sqlite-utils install ... command for helping people to install packages into the same virtual environment as sqlite-utils no matter how they installed that tool: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#cli-install

So I can treat Trogon as an optional dependency and add the sqlite-utils tui command only if that package is also installed.

[simonw]

OK, this works!

To try it out, install that branch from GitHub:

pip install https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/archive/refs/heads/trogon.zip

Then run this:

sqlite-utils install trogon

And this:

sqlite-utils tui

[simonw]

Opened a feature request for customizing the help and command name:

• Feature request: customize command name and help text Textualize/trogon#2

[simonw]

It looks like nargs=-1 on a positional argument isn't yet supported - opened an issue here:

• Doesn't support multiple positional arguments - nargs=-1 Textualize/trogon#4

[simonw]

Draft documentation: https://sqlite-utils--549.org.readthedocs.build/en/549/cli.html#cli-tui

[simonw]

Now released: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v3-32