Fixed argument parsing for entrypoint based zopectl commands.

doc/CHANGES.rst

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/.
 Bugs Fixed
 ++++++++++
 
+- Fixed argument parsing for entrypoint based zopectl commands.
+
 - Fixed the usage of ``pstats.Stats()`` output stream. The
   `Control_Panel/DebugInfo/manage_profile` ZMI view was broken in Python 2.5+.
 

doc/operation.rst

@@ -176,17 +176,19 @@ in ``setup.py``. Commands have to be put in the ``zopectl.command`` group:
    Due to an implementation detail of ``zopectl`` you can not use a minus
    character (``-``) in the command name.
 
-This adds a ``init_app`` command that can be used directly from the commandline::
+This adds a ``init_app`` command that can be used directly from the command
+line::
 
     bin\zopectl init_app
 
-The command must be implemented as a python callable. It will be called with
-two parameters: the Zope2 application and a tuple with all commandline
+The command must be implemented as a Python callable. It will be called with
+two parameters: the Zope2 application and a list with all command line
 arguments. Here is a basic example:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
    def init_application(app, args):
-       print 'Initialisating the application'
-
+       print 'Initializing the application'
 
+Make sure the callable can be imported without side-effects, such as setting
+up the database connection used by Zope 2.

src/Zope2/Startup/zopectl.py

@@ -354,8 +354,9 @@ class ZopeCmd(ZDCmd):
             # ['run "arg 1" "arg2"'] rather than ['run','arg 1','arg2'].
             # If that's the case, we'll use csv to do the parsing
             # so that we can split on spaces while respecting quotes.
-            if len(self.options.args) == 1:
-                tup = csv.reader(self.options.args, delimiter=' ').next()
+            tup = self.options.args
+            if len(tup) == 1:
+                tup = csv.reader(tup, delimiter=' ').next()
 
             # Remove -c and add command name as sys.argv[0]
             cmd = [ 'import sys',
@@ -364,13 +365,14 @@ class ZopeCmd(ZDCmd):
                    ]
             if len(tup) > 1:
                 argv = tup[1:]
-                cmd.append('[sys.argv.append(x) for x in %s]; ' % argv)
+                for a in argv:
+                    cmd.append('sys.argv.append(r\'%s\')' % a)
             cmd.extend([
                 'import pkg_resources',
                 'import Zope2',
                 'func=pkg_resources.EntryPoint.parse(\'%s\').load(False)' % entry_point,
                 'app=Zope2.app()',
-                'func(app)',
+                'func(app, sys.argv[1:])',
                 ])
             cmdline = self.get_startup_cmd(self.options.python, ' ; '.join(cmd))
             self._exitstatus = os.system(cmdline)