hey folks, do we have existing code to handle cleanup of passthrough args? ex

./pants lint testprojects/src/helm:: -- --debug

?

ArgsListOption

will handle the passthrough, I'm hoping to have some existing code for passing different args to subtasks for where it makes sense. For a concrete case, for deploying helm charts, we render the chart with

helm template

and then deploy it with `helm upgrade`; some args are only valid for the

upgrade

part, and we can filter them out of the ones we pass to

template

. Currently we only pass them through to

upgrade

, which makes sense for, ex,

--force

. But it's possible for the

template

step to fail, and then

--debug

would be helpful. See https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18089

it’s very command specific i think… not aware of any best practice. if there are arguments that might always be necessary for particular commands, then separate arg-lists per makes sense. passthrough args need to be used sparingly: mostly for

run

,

test

, rather than necessarily for

lint

? it basically just needs to be unambiguous “who” will consume them.

that's a good way of looking at it, thanks. One of the quirks with helm is that you can have errors in linting, and the debug flag would be helpful. also "debug" is a global arg but you'd probably want to be able to pass it as a passthrough. I'll think of something

yea, sounds reasonable.