Resolve arg passing if module call

.vscode/launch.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
             "program": "src/fb_export.py",  //"${file}",
             "console": "integratedTerminal",
             "justMyCode": true,
-            "args":  [  //"test/employee.fdb", // "-e", // "-c", // "-l", //"-m 10", // "-u", "SYSDBA", "-p", "masterkey",
+            "args":  [  "test/employee.fdb", // "-e", // "-c", // "-l", //"-m 10", // "-u", "SYSDBA", "-p", "masterkey",
                        // "-o" , "OutDir", // "-F", "json"
                      ] ,
         },],

src/args.py

@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@
 import argparse
 
 
-def get_args(*args):
-    if len(args) != 0:
-        return args
+def get_args(*fbe_args):
+
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Firebird export")
 
     parser.add_argument( 'path_to_db', type=str, 
@@ -18,20 +17,22 @@ def get_args(*args):
     parser.add_argument('-l', '--limit', action='store_true', default=False,
                          help="Limit tables and fields to those in limit_sql.py")
     parser.add_argument('-m', '--maxrows', help="Max number of rows to export")
-
-    #fixme - numsamples to be conditional on sampledata
     parser.add_argument('-s', '--sampledata', action='store_true', default=False, 
                         help="Also show sample data records")
     parser.add_argument('-n', '--numsamples', default=3, help="number of sample rows")
 
-    parser.add_argument('-c', '--combine', action='store_true', default=False, 
-                        help="Combine output into a single file")
+    parser.add_argument('-j', '--join', action='store_true', default=False, 
+                        help="Join output files")
     format = [ 'csv', 'json',] # 'excel', 'sql', 'hdf', 'pickle', 'html' ....]?
     parser.add_argument("-F", "--format", choices=format, default='csv', help="Export output format, default .CSV")
     parser.add_argument("-o", "--outdir", type=str, dest='outdir', default='Export', help="Output directory")
     parser.add_argument("-u", "--user", type=str, default='SYSDBA', help="Firebird DB username")
     parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", type=str, default='masterkey', help="Firebird DB password")
 
 
-    args = parser.parse_args()
+    if len(fbe_args) == 0: # Command line 
+        args = parser.parse_args()
+    else:  # From module 
+        args = parser.parse_args( fbe_args[0])
+
     return args

src/fb_export.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-# Dump firebase data
-
-
+# Export Firebird database contents to CSV
 
 import fdb
 from shutil import rmtree
@@ -28,13 +26,13 @@
 unzip_testdb()
 
 
-def main(*arg):
-    args = get_args()
+def main(*fbe_arg):
+    args = get_args(fbe_arg)
     if os.getenv('GITHUB_ACTIONS'):
         con = fdb.connect(args.path_to_db, user=args.user, password=args.password,
                 fb_library_name='/opt/firebird/lib/libfbembed.so')
     else:
-        con = fdb.connect(args.path_to_db, user=args.user, password=args.password)
+        con = fdb.connect(args.path_to_db)
 
     print("Connected to ", con.database_name, ' via ', con.firebird_version, file=sys.stderr)
 
@@ -129,7 +127,7 @@ def main(*arg):
                 except:
                     print("Error converting DF to json: " + table, file=sys.stderr)
 
-            if args.combine:
+            if args.join:
                 filename = dbf_name.rstrip('.fdb') + '.' + args.format 
                 fmode = 'a'
             else:
@@ -147,4 +145,4 @@ def main(*arg):
     rmtree('/tmp/firebird')
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main(sys.argv)
+    main()