tasks

class fabric.tasks.ConnectionCall(*args, **kwargs)

Subclass of invoke.tasks.Call that generates Connections.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Creates a new ConnectionCall.

Performs minor extensions to Call – see its docstring for most details. Only specific-to-subclass params are documented here.

Parameters

init_kwargs (dict) – Keyword arguments used to create a new Connection when the wrapped task is executed. Default: None.

class fabric.tasks.Task(*args, **kwargs)

Extends invoke.tasks.Task with knowledge of target hosts and similar.

As invoke.tasks.Task relegates documentation responsibility to its @task expression, so we relegate most details to our version of @task - please see its docs for details.

New in version 2.1.

fabric.tasks.task(*args, **kwargs)

Wraps/extends Invoke’s @task with extra kwargs.

See the Invoke-level API docs for most details; this Fabric-specific implementation adds the following additional keyword arguments:

Parameters

hosts –

An iterable of host-connection specifiers appropriate for eventually instantiating a Connection. The existence of this argument will trigger automatic parameterization of the task when invoked from the CLI, similar to the behavior of --hosts.

Note

This parameterization is “lower-level” than that driven by --hosts: if a task decorated with this parameter is executed in a session where --hosts was given, the CLI-driven value will win out.

List members may be one of:

• A string appropriate for being the first positional argument to Connection - see its docs for details, but these are typically shorthand-only convenience strings like hostname.example.com or user@host:port.

• A dictionary appropriate for use as keyword arguments when instantiating a Connection. Useful for values that don’t mesh well with simple strings (e.g. statically defined IPv6 addresses) or to bake in more complex info (eg connect_timeout, connect_kwargs params like auth info, etc).

These two value types may be mixed together in the same list, though we recommend that you keep things homogenous when possible, to avoid confusion when debugging.

Note

No automatic deduplication of values is performed; if you pass in multiple references to the same effective target host, the wrapped task will execute on that host multiple times (including making separate connections).

New in version 2.1.