Fix pulp --help not showing available commands

CHANGES/1267.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed `pulp --help` not showing all available commands.

src/pulp_cli/__init__.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from pulp_glue.common.i18n import get_translation
 
 from pulp_cli.config import CONFIG_LOCATIONS, config, config_options, validate_config
-from pulp_cli.generic import PulpCLIContext, pulp_group
+from pulp_cli.generic import PulpCLIContext, PulpGroup
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
     import tomllib
@@ -60,6 +60,23 @@ def load_plugins(
 PROFILE_KEY = f"{__name__}.profile"
 
 
+class MainPulpGroup(PulpGroup):
+    """PulpGroup subclass for the main CLI entry point.
+
+    Ensures plugins are loaded before help is displayed. This is needed because
+    Click's ``iter_params_for_processing`` sorts eager parameters by invocation
+    order, so ``--help`` (which is on the command line) gets processed before
+    ``--config`` and ``--profile`` (which are not). This causes ``--help`` to
+    exit before the plugin-loading callbacks ever fire, resulting in a help page
+    that only shows directly-registered commands.
+    """
+
+    def format_help(self, ctx: click.Context, formatter: click.HelpFormatter) -> None:
+        if PLUGIN_KEY not in ctx.meta:
+            ctx.meta[PLUGIN_KEY] = load_plugins()
+        super().format_help(ctx, formatter)
+
+
 # config and config-profile need to be combined in order to fetch the desired defaults.
 # Click will call both these callbacks exactly once, but we cannot know the order.
 # Therefore whichever one has seen the that the other deposited it's value will coninue with
@@ -183,7 +200,7 @@ def _version_callback(ctx: click.Context, param: t.Any, value: bool) -> None:
     ),
 )
 @config_options
-@pulp_group(no_args_is_help=False)
+@click.group(cls=MainPulpGroup, no_args_is_help=False)
 @click.pass_context
 def main(
     ctx: click.Context,

tests/test_help_pages.py

@@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ def test_accessing_the_help_page_does_not_invoke_api(
         assert result.stdout.startswith("Usage:") or result.stdout.startswith("DeprecationWarning:")
 
 
+def test_help_shows_all_available_commands(no_api: None) -> None:
+    runner = CliRunner()
+    result = runner.invoke(main, ["--help"], catch_exceptions=False)
+    assert result.exit_code == 0
+    for command in main.commands.keys():
+        assert command in result.stdout
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "command,options",
     [