Some experimentation with providing dynamic sidebar help information following discussion in saulpw/visidata#1733
The idea is to conditionally override the help text on a DirSheet only if it looks like we're in a
Cloud Custodian output directory.
This is a hack that could be added to ~/.visidatarc... but probably shouldn't yet.
| import json | |
| import textwrap | |
| from visidata import DirSheet, vd | |
| from functools import cache, wraps | |
| def c7n_help(original_help): | |
| '''Add Cloud Custodian-specific help to the DirSheet when relevant | |
| If it looks like we're in a DirSheet for a Cloud Custodian output directory, | |
| show some high-level details about the policy and output files. | |
| ''' | |
| c7n_filenames = {'custodian-run.log', 'metadata.json', 'resources.json'} | |
| @property | |
| @cache | |
| @wraps(DirSheet.help) | |
| def wrapper(self): | |
| filenames = {row._path.name.removesuffix('.gz') for row in self.rows} | |
| if not c7n_filenames <= filenames: | |
| return original_help | |
| policy_metadata = json.loads(next(row for row in vd.sheet.rows if row._path.name == 'metadata.json').read_text()) | |
| resources = json.loads(next(row for row in vd.sheet.rows if row._path.name == 'resources.json').read_text()) | |
| source_files = '\n'.join(f''' | |
| - {config} | |
| ''' | |
| for config in policy_metadata['config']['configs'] | |
| ) | |
| return original_help + textwrap.dedent(f''' | |
| ## Cloud Custodian | |
| This looks like a Cloud Custodian output directory! | |
| [:bold]Policy:[:] {policy_metadata['policy']['name']} | |
| [:bold]Source Files:[:] {source_files} | |
| [:bold]Target Resource:[:] {policy_metadata['policy']['resource']} | |
| [:bold]Account ID:[:] {policy_metadata['config']['account_id']} | |
| [:bold]Region:[:] {policy_metadata['config']['region']} | |
| [:bold]Resources Matched:[:] {len(resources)} | |
| [:bold]Custodian Version:[:] {policy_metadata['version']} | |
| ## Output File Reference | |
| - `custodian-run.log`: log messages and errors from the policy run | |
| - `metadata.json`: the policy body and information about where it ran | |
| - `resources.json`: a list of all resources that matched the policy | |
| ''') | |
| return wrapper | |
| DirSheet.help = c7n_help(DirSheet.help) |
Ah yeah I see that running a bunch. Caching on the property seems to address that and still report the expected dir-specific info. Would be even more noticeable for s3, thanks.