Is it possible to list or filter targets by what g...
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wide-midnight-78598
11/05/2022, 2:34 AMIs it possible to list or filter targets by what goal can be used to run it?
Like
./pants list package./pants list testb
bitter-ability-32190
11/05/2022, 11:36 AMThat's possible (UX nonwithstanding)
bitter-ability-32190
11/05/2022, 11:37 AMThe plugin can request AllTargets, then filter it by taking the union members of those unions (PackageFieldSet and TestFieldSet) and seeing if they are applicable to the target
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wide-midnight-78598
11/05/2022, 12:45 PMAh okay, so there is no current user-facing way to do this. Drats
wide-midnight-78598
11/05/2022, 12:46 PMWas hoping it was currently part of the external introspection API
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bitter-ability-32190
11/05/2022, 2:08 PMI can see a case for this as a filtering of the list goal. UX would really be the only concern
bitter-ability-32190
11/05/2022, 2:09 PMMake an issue?
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wide-midnight-78598
11/05/2022, 2:33 PMYep, just oot and aboot right now. Looking for other workarounds too, before potentially adding more to the API. The purpose of this is to be able to contextually select goals based on a target in my vs code plugin
wide-midnight-78598
11/05/2022, 2:34 PMI had also hoped Peek would provide this type of info, but it doesn’t look like there is an external representation of what goals can run on a target, in general
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bitter-ability-32190
11/05/2022, 3:37 PMWe should probably think about modeling the CLI between stable information-driven script support and intuitive ux-driven user support
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wide-midnight-78598
11/05/2022, 5:23 PMYep, I have a whole thing on this ready for the next meeting. Not the solution, just some notes about my experience, and some interesting user-facing experience(s)