Multiple arguments with values to custom management command

Question

How do I pass multiple arguments with values, from command line, to a custom django management command?

def add_arguments(self, parser):
    parser.add_argument('str_arg1', nargs='+')
    parser.add_argument('int_arg2', nargs='+', type=int)

When I run:

./manage.py my_command str_arg1 value int_arg2 1 --settings=config.settings.local

I get the following values in options:

options['str_arg1'] = ['str_arg1', 'value', 'int_arg2']
options['int_arg2'] = [1]

Tried searching in documentation and online for a solution and multiple ways of passing the arguments with no luck. Django version is 1.10.

Thanks

Answer 1

The way you have defined the arguments means they are positional arguments. There's no sensible way to have multiple positional arguments which consume an unknown amount of values.

Modify your parser to specify them as options instead:

parser.add_argument('--str-arg1', nargs='+')
parser.add_argument('--int-arg2', nargs='+', type=int)

And modify the call:

./manage.py my_command --str-arg1 value --int-arg2 1