We are currently using aesh to parse our CLI options and not as a shell.

We are using nested GroupCommand annotations:

• gp-main (main group command)
• gp-sub (secondary group command that belongs to gp-main)
• command (command that belongs to gp-sub)

While setting things up (reproducer project is in the attachment), I noticed that 'gp-sub' is treated as a main group command and can be invoked without using 'gp-main' first.

# OK
<cli> gp-main gp-sub --help

# NOT OK but currently works
<cli> gp-sub --help

This breaks the namespace we created for gp-sub under gp-main.

Snippets from the reproducer project:

Commands:

    @GroupCommandDefinition(name = "gp-main", description = "test", groupCommands = {SubGroupCommand.class})
    public static class GroupCommand extends CommandHelper {
    }

    @GroupCommandDefinition(name = "gp-sub", description = "sub group", groupCommands = {MainCommand.class})
    public static class SubGroupCommand extends CommandHelper {

    }

    @CommandDefinition(name = "command", description = "main command")
    public static class MainCommand extends CommandHelper {
          ...
    }

CommandHelper implements Command and helps provides some helper methods.

Aesh setup

        CommandRegistry registry = new AeshCommandRegistryBuilder()
                .command(GroupCommand.class)
                .command(SubGroupCommand.class)
                .command(MainCommand.class)
                .create();

        CommandRuntime runtime = AeshCommandRuntimeBuilder
                .builder()
                .commandRegistry(registry)
                .build();

If I remove:

                .command(SubGroupCommand.class)
                .command(MainCommand.class)

from the above code, this works but it break the commandInvocation.getHelpInfo method.

Reproducer

1. Unzip the project
2. Build via: mvn clean install
3. Run via: java -jar target/aesh-experiment-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar

Output of reproducer

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running: gp-main --help
Usage: gp-main
test

Options:
  -h, --help  print help

gp-main commands:
    gp-sub  sub group

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That shouldn't work since it is not a top-level group command
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running: gp-sub --help
Usage: gp-sub
sub group

Options:
  -h, --help  print help

gp-sub commands:
    command  main command

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Expected behaviour

I don't want gp-sub to be able to be invoked from the 'top-level', but can only be invoked under 'gp-main'.