Contributions to jsonargparse are very welcome. There are multiple ways for people to help and contribute, among them:
- Star ⭐ the github project https://github.com/omni-us/jsonargparse/.
- Sponsor 🩷 its maintenance and development.
- Spread the word in your community about the features you like from jsonargparse.
- Help others to learn how to use jsonargparse by creating tutorials, such as blog posts and videos.
- Become active in existing github issues and pull requests.
- Create issues for reporting bugs and proposing improvements.
- Create pull requests with documentation improvements, bug fixes or new features.
If you intend to work with the source code, note that this project does not include any requirements.txt file. This is by intention. To make it very clear what are the requirements for different use cases, all the requirements of the project are stored in the file pyproject.toml. The basic runtime requirements are defined in dependencies. Requirements for optional features are stored in [project.optional-dependencies]. Also in the same section there are requirements for testing, development and documentation building: test, dev and doc.
The recommended way to work with the source code is the following. First clone the repository, then create a virtual environment, activate it and finally install the development requirements. More precisely the steps are:
git clone https://github.com/omni-us/jsonargparse.git
cd jsonargparse
python -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activateThe crucial step is installing the requirements which would be done by running:
pip install -e ".[dev,all]"Please also install the pre-commit git hook scripts so that unit tests and code checks are automatically run locally. This is done as follows:
pre-commit installNote
The .pre-commit-config.yaml file was changed such that some hooks are now run on pre-push. If you have an old development environment, please run pre-commit install again to update the git hooks.
The pre-push stage runs several hooks (tests, doctests, mypy, coverage) that take some time. These are intended to let developers know problems which must be resolved for any pull request to be considered for merging. If you wish to push without running these hooks, use the command git push --no-verify.
To build the documentation run:
sphinx-build sphinx sphinx/_build sphinx/*.rstTo view the built documentation, open the file sphinx/_build/index.html in a browser.
Running the unit tests can be done either using using pytest or tox. The tests are also installed with the package, thus can be run in a production system.
tox # Run tests using tox on available python versions
pytest # Run tests using pytest on the python of the environment
pytest --cov # Run tests and generate coverage report
python -m jsonargparse_tests # Run tests on installed package (requires pytest and pytest-subtests)
pre-commit run -a --hook-stage pre-push # Run pre-push git hooks (tests, doctests, mypy, coverage)To get a nice html test coverage report, run:
pytest --cov --cov-report=htmlThen open the file htmlcov/index.html in a browser.
When creating a pull request, it is recommended that in your fork, create a specific branch for the changes you want to contribute, instead of using the main branch.
The required tasks to do for a pull request, are listed in PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md.
One of the tasks is adding a changelog entry. For this, note that this project uses semantic versioning. Depending on whether the contribution is a bug fix or a new feature, the changelog entry would go in a patch or minor release. The changelog section for the next release does not have a definite date, for example:
v4.28.0 (2024-03-??)
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Added
^^^^^
-If no such section exists, just add it. Have a look at previous releases to decide under which subsection the new entry should go. If you are unsure, ask in the pull request.
Please don't open pull requests with breaking changes unless this has been discussed and agreed upon in an issue.