def arguments(cls, arglist, selection=True):
"""
Rturn the contents of arglist as a list of strings. If <selection>
is True, the arglist will be populated with Maya selection
"""
syntax = MSyntax()
syntax.setObjectType(MSyntax.kStringObjects)
syntax.useSelectionAsDefault(selection)
adb = MArgDatabase(syntax, arglist)
return adb.getObjectStrings()
def objects(cls, arglist, selection=True):
"""
Returns the contents of arglist as an MSelectionList. If <selection>
is True, uses the maya selection as the default.
Note this does no error handling, if the argList has a bad object
name a RuntimeError will be raised
"""
syntax = MSyntax()
syntax.setObjectType(MSyntax.kSelectionList)
syntax.useSelectionAsDefault(selection)
try:
adb = MArgDatabase(syntax, arglist)
return adb.getObjectList()
except RuntimeError as e:
raise RuntimeError("could not parse argument list",
cls.arguments(arglist))
def parse(self, arglist):
return MArgDatabase(self.syntax(), arglist)
