cmd.Parent() returns the LAST parent added in code, regardless of the actual command's parent.

[rfinner]

app get schedule

• returns: schedule parent is get

** AND **

app create schedule

• returns: schedule parent is get

for the following code:

var scheduleCmd = &cobra.Command{
Use: "schedule",
Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
fmt.Println("schedule parent is ", cmd.Parent().Use)
},
}

func init() {
createCmd.AddCommand(scheduleCmd)
getCmd.AddCommand(scheduleCmd)
}

The reverse is also true if I reverse the order AddCommand. cmd.Parent() returns the LAST parent added, regardless of the actual command's parent.

[Luap99]

You cannot do this. Each command can only have one parent. For your use case you would need to generate the command with a function and invoke it for each addcommand call. Like #1015 (comment)

[rfinner]

Thanks!

Luap99 explained why answer in #1005 solves my use case:

Here is the code that works (I think it this right but beware that I am a newbie to cobra):

func newScheduleCmd() *cobra.Command {
return &cobra.Command{
Use: "schedule",
Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
fmt.Println("schedule parent is ", cmd.Parent().Name())
fmt.Println("schedule full path: ", cmd.CommandPath())
},
}
}
func init() {
createCmd.AddCommand(newScheduleCmd())
getCmd.AddCommand(newScheduleCmd())
}