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Python IDE autocomplete missing some methods from AppDaemon plugin class

I'm trying to use autocomplete for the Hass class from the Python AppDaemon package. Autocomplete is showing some of the inherited methods from the superclass such as get_state(), but some methods are missing, such as log() and get_entity(). This behavior is the same in VS Code and PyCharm Community.

Autocomplete from superclass

Autocomplete method from superclasses superclass

Here's the skeleton of a class I'm writing, which inherits from hass.Hass:

import hassapi as hass

class AutocompleteTest(hass.Hass):

    def initialize(self):
        self.get

Here's the class it inherits from (GitHub link):

class Hass(adbase.ADBase, adapi.ADAPI):

The methods I want to autocomplete are in the superclass adapi.ADAPI (GitHub link). Here are the method definitions from that class:

class ADAPI:
  # This method shows in autocomplete
  @utils.sync_wrapper
  async def get_state(
    self,
    entity_id: str = None,
    attribute: str = None,
    default: Any = None,
    copy: bool = True,
    **kwargs: Optional[Any],
  ) -> Any:

  # This method does not show in autocomplete
  def log(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):

  # This method does not show in autocomplete
  def get_entity(self, entity: str, **kwargs: Optional[Any]) -> Entity:

Can anyone help me understand what's going on, and how to get autocomplete fully working?

My requirements file:

hassapi
iso8601
requests
Solution

  • The hassapi package on PyPI (hass-api/hassapi) and your requirements file is unaffiliated with AppDaemon.

    At runtime, AppDaemon does sys.path.insert(0, plugin) for its own hass plugin (AppDaemon/appdaemon/.../appdaemon/plugins/hass) containing the hassapi module.

    To get autocomplete, install appdaemon package instead.

    1. Either change your import statement to directly import AppDaemon's hassapi module:
    # import hassapi as hass
from appdaemon.plugins.hass import hassapi as hass
    1. Or create a file hassapi.py in the same directory as autocomplete-test.py containing:
    from appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi import *