very WIP: expand dump-command for subcription things, like template rendering

src/Backend.cpp

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ json HABackend::DoCommand(const string& command, const json& data)
 
   json jsonresponse = json::parse(response);
   if (jsonresponse["id"] != request["id"]) {
-    throw std::runtime_error("Send out a command, but received something with a different ID.");
+    throw std::runtime_error("Sent out a command, but received something with a different ID.");
   }
   return jsonresponse;
 }
@@ -100,14 +100,15 @@ void HABackend::threadrunner()
     throw std::runtime_error("Didn't receive response to getDomains while we expected it");
   }
   for (auto& [domain, services] : getdomainjson["result"].items()) {
-
     std::scoped_lock lk(domainslock);
     domains[domain] = std::make_shared<HADomain>(domain, services);
   }
 
-  json subscribe;
-  subscribe["type"] = "subscribe_events";
-  wc->send(subscribe);
+  if (subscribe_events) {
+    json subscribe;
+    subscribe["type"] = "subscribe_events";
+    wc->send(subscribe);
+  }
 
   json getstates;
   getstates["type"] = "get_states";
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ void HABackend::threadrunner()
     // cout<<msg<<endl;
     json j = json::parse(msg);
 
+    std::cerr<<j.dump(2)<<std::endl; // FIXME: this is just to make this PR somewhat work
     {
 
       if (j["id"] == getstates["id"]) {

src/Backend.hpp

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ class HABackend : Backend
   map<string, std::shared_ptr<HAEntity>> GetEntities();
   void WSConnSend(json& msg);
 
+  bool subscribe_events{true};
+
 private:
   bool loaded;
   std::mutex load_lock;

src/front-cli.cpp

@@ -44,25 +44,28 @@ void uithread(HABackend& backend, int argc, char* argv[])
 {
   argparse::ArgumentParser program("client-cli");
   argparse::ArgumentParser subscribe_command("subscribe");
+  subscribe_command.add_description("subscribe to a domain and show events");
   subscribe_command.add_argument("domain")
     .help("specific a HA domain"); // maybe .remaining() so you can subscribe multiple?
-
   program.add_subparser(subscribe_command);
 
   argparse::ArgumentParser token_command("ha-get-token");
+  token_command.add_description("get a long lived access token");
   token_command.add_argument("name").help("Name of the token").default_value("voorkant");
   program.add_subparser(token_command);
 
   argparse::ArgumentParser list_entities_command("list-entities");
+  list_entities_command.add_description("list all entities");
   program.add_subparser(list_entities_command);
 
   /* usage example for dump-command with data:
    * build/client-cli dump-command call_service '{"domain":"light","service":"toggle","target":{"entity_id":"light.bed_light"}}'
    */
   argparse::ArgumentParser dump_command("dump-command");
+  dump_command.add_description("run a command and show the response");
   dump_command.add_argument("command").help("the command to execute");
   dump_command.add_argument("data").help("optional data to pass with the command").default_value("{}");
-
+  dump_command.add_argument("--wait").implicit_value(true).help("keep listening for further output");
   program.add_subparser(dump_command);
 
   try {
@@ -110,9 +113,15 @@ void uithread(HABackend& backend, int argc, char* argv[])
     }
   }
   else if (program.is_subcommand_used(dump_command)) {
+    backend.subscribe_events = false;
+    backend.Start();
+
     json data = json::parse(dump_command.get<string>("data"));
     json res = backend.DoCommand(dump_command.get<string>("command"), data);
     cout << res.dump(2) << endl;
+    while (true) {
+      sleep(10);
+    }
   }
   else {
     cerr << "no command given" << endl;