Various changes to address PR comments

Made a change to make `CommandManager.execute` the main entry point for
executing commands and made `call_strings` into a private method.

mitmproxy/command.py

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ class CommandManager(mitmproxy.types._CommandBase):
             raise exceptions.CommandError("Unknown command: %s" % path)
         return self.commands[path].func(*args)
 
-    def call_strings(self, path: str, args: typing.Sequence[str]) -> typing.Any:
+    def _call_strings(self, path: str, args: typing.Sequence[str]) -> typing.Any:
         """
             Call a command using a list of string arguments. May raise CommandError.
         """
@@ -236,12 +236,13 @@ class CommandManager(mitmproxy.types._CommandBase):
         parts, _ = self.parse_partial(cmdstr)
         params = []
         for p in parts:
+            if p.value.strip() != '':
                 params.append(p.value)
 
         if len(parts) == 0:
             raise exceptions.CommandError("Invalid command: %s" % cmdstr)
 
-        return self.call_strings(params[0], params[1:])
+        return self._call_strings(params[0], params[1:])
 
     def dump(self, out=sys.stdout) -> None:
         cmds = list(self.commands.values())

mitmproxy/tools/console/consoleaddons.py

@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ class ConsoleAddon:
             command, then invoke another command with all occurrences of {choice}
             replaced by the choice the user made.
         """
-        choices = ctx.master.commands.call_strings(choicecmd, [])
+        choices = ctx.master.commands.execute(choicecmd)
 
         def callback(opt):
             # We're now outside of the call context...
@@ -535,10 +535,8 @@ class ConsoleAddon:
             raise exceptions.CommandError("Invalid flowview mode.")
 
         try:
-            self.master.commands.call_strings(
-                "view.settings.setval",
-                ["@focus", "flowview_mode_%s" % idx, mode]
-            )
+            cmd = 'view.settings.setval @focus flowview_mode_%s %s' % (idx, mode)
+            self.master.commands.execute(cmd)
         except exceptions.CommandError as e:
             signals.status_message.send(message=str(e))
 
@@ -558,14 +556,9 @@ class ConsoleAddon:
         if not fv:
             raise exceptions.CommandError("Not viewing a flow.")
         idx = fv.body.tab_offset
-        return self.master.commands.call_strings(
-            "view.settings.getval",
-            [
-                "@focus",
-                "flowview_mode_%s" % idx,
-                self.master.options.console_default_contentview,
-            ]
-        )
+
+        cmd = 'view.settings.getval @focus flowview_mode_%s %s' % (idx, self.master.options.console_default_contentview)
+        return self.master.commands.execute(cmd)
 
     @command.command("console.key.contexts")
     def key_contexts(self) -> typing.Sequence[str]:

mitmproxy/types.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class Choice:
 class _CommandBase:
     commands: typing.MutableMapping[str, typing.Any] = {}
 
-    def call_strings(self, path: str, args: typing.Sequence[str]) -> typing.Any:
+    def _call_strings(self, path: str, args: typing.Sequence[str]) -> typing.Any:
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     def execute(self, cmd: str) -> typing.Any:
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class _FlowType(_BaseFlowType):
 
     def parse(self, manager: _CommandBase, t: type, s: str) -> flow.Flow:
         try:
-            flows = manager.call_strings("view.flows.resolve", [s])
+            flows = manager.execute("view.flows.resolve %s" % (s))
         except exceptions.CommandError as e:
             raise exceptions.TypeError from e
         if len(flows) != 1:
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class _FlowsType(_BaseFlowType):
 
     def parse(self, manager: _CommandBase, t: type, s: str) -> typing.Sequence[flow.Flow]:
         try:
-            return manager.call_strings("view.flows.resolve", [s])
+            return manager.execute("view.flows.resolve %s" % (s))
         except exceptions.CommandError as e:
             raise exceptions.TypeError from e
 

test/mitmproxy/addons/test_save.py

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def test_save_command(tmpdir):
         v = view.View()
         tctx.master.addons.add(v)
         tctx.master.addons.add(sa)
-        tctx.master.commands.call_strings("save.file", ["@shown", p])
+        tctx.master.commands.execute("save.file @shown %s" % p)
 
 
 def test_simple(tmpdir):

test/mitmproxy/tools/console/test_defaultkeys.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ async def test_commands_exist():
     await m.load_flow(tflow())
 
     for binding in km.bindings:
-        results = command_manager.parse_partial(binding.command)
+        results = command_manager.parse_partial(binding.command.strip())
 
         cmd = results[0][0].value
         args = [a.value for a in results[0][1:]]