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This PR improves the user experience of the CLI tool by handling Ctrl+C gracefully during interactive prompts, preventing ugly traceback errors. It also adds a helpful usage example to the help output and removes a duplicate function definition.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 14962804680975856503 started by @abhimehro

- Wrap interactive prompts in `try...except KeyboardInterrupt` to prevent tracebacks on cancellation.
- Remove duplicate `render_progress_bar` function definition to clean up code.
- Add usage example to `--help` output via `argparse` epilog.

Co-authored-by: abhimehro <84992105+abhimehro@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request significantly improves the user experience of the CLI tool by addressing common usability issues. It ensures that interactive sessions can be gracefully interrupted without error messages and provides clearer guidance for command-line arguments, making the tool more robust and intuitive for users.

Highlights

  • Graceful CLI Exit Handling: Implemented graceful handling for Ctrl+C during interactive CLI prompts, preventing Python tracebacks and providing a clean 'Sync cancelled' message with an exit code of 130.
  • Improved CLI Help Output: Enhanced the CLI help output by adding a usage example to the ArgumentParser's epilog, guiding users on how to invoke the script with common arguments.
  • Codebase Cleanup: Removed a redundant render_progress_bar function from main.py, streamlining the codebase.
  • UX Learnings Documentation: Introduced a new markdown file (.Jules/palette.md) to document critical UX learnings, specifically noting the importance of graceful exits in CLI tools.
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sys.stderr.write(
f"\n{Colors.WARNING}⚠️ Sync cancelled by user.{Colors.ENDC}\n"
)
exit(130)

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f"\n{Colors.WARNING}⚠️ Sync cancelled by user.{Colors.ENDC}\n"
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"Invalid ID(s) or URL(s). Must be a valid Profile ID or a Control D Profile URL. Comma-separate for multiple.",
)
profile_ids = [
extract_profile_id(p) for p in p_input.split(",") if p.strip()

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print(
f"{Colors.CYAN} You can generate one at: https://controld.com/account/manage-account{Colors.ENDC}"
)
if not TOKEN:

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t_input = get_validated_input(
f"{Colors.BOLD}Enter Control D API Token:{Colors.ENDC} ",
lambda x: len(x) > 8,
"Token seems too short. Please check your API token.",

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Pull request overview

This PR refines the CLI UX by removing a duplicate progress-bar implementation, improving the help text, and handling Ctrl+C more gracefully during interactive configuration prompts.

Changes:

  • Remove the older duplicate render_progress_bar helper, leaving a single, documented implementation.
  • Enhance the CLI argument parser with an epilog example to clarify typical usage.
  • Wrap the interactive configuration prompts in main() with a try/except KeyboardInterrupt to print a friendly cancellation message and exit with code 130 instead of showing a traceback, and add a UX journal entry under .Jules/.

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main.py Cleans up duplicate progress bar definition, adds example usage to parse_args(), and introduces a KeyboardInterrupt handler for interactive prompts to provide a graceful cancel UX and exit code 130.
.Jules/palette.md Adds a UX/Accessibility “journal” documenting the learning about handling Ctrl+C gracefully in CLI tools.

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Comment on lines +1226 to +1266
try:
if not args.dry_run and sys.stdin.isatty():
if not profile_ids:
print(f"{Colors.CYAN}ℹ Profile ID is missing.{Colors.ENDC}")
print(
f"{Colors.CYAN} You can find this in the URL of your profile in the Control D Dashboard (or just paste the URL).{Colors.ENDC}"
)

def validate_profile_input(value: str) -> bool:
ids = [extract_profile_id(p) for p in value.split(",") if p.strip()]
return bool(ids) and all(
validate_profile_id(pid, log_errors=False) for pid in ids
)

def validate_profile_input(value: str) -> bool:
ids = [extract_profile_id(p) for p in value.split(",") if p.strip()]
return bool(ids) and all(
validate_profile_id(pid, log_errors=False) for pid in ids
p_input = get_validated_input(
f"{Colors.BOLD}Enter Control D Profile ID:{Colors.ENDC} ",
validate_profile_input,
"Invalid ID(s) or URL(s). Must be a valid Profile ID or a Control D Profile URL. Comma-separate for multiple.",
)
profile_ids = [
extract_profile_id(p) for p in p_input.split(",") if p.strip()
]

p_input = get_validated_input(
f"{Colors.BOLD}Enter Control D Profile ID:{Colors.ENDC} ",
validate_profile_input,
"Invalid ID(s) or URL(s). Must be a valid Profile ID or a Control D Profile URL. Comma-separate for multiple.",
)
profile_ids = [
extract_profile_id(p) for p in p_input.split(",") if p.strip()
]

if not TOKEN:
print(f"{Colors.CYAN}ℹ API Token is missing.{Colors.ENDC}")
print(
f"{Colors.CYAN} You can generate one at: https://controld.com/account/manage-account{Colors.ENDC}"
)
if not TOKEN:
print(f"{Colors.CYAN}ℹ API Token is missing.{Colors.ENDC}")
print(
f"{Colors.CYAN} You can generate one at: https://controld.com/account/manage-account{Colors.ENDC}"
)

t_input = get_validated_input(
f"{Colors.BOLD}Enter Control D API Token:{Colors.ENDC} ",
lambda x: len(x) > 8,
"Token seems too short. Please check your API token.",
is_password=True,
)
TOKEN = t_input
t_input = get_validated_input(
f"{Colors.BOLD}Enter Control D API Token:{Colors.ENDC} ",
lambda x: len(x) > 8,
"Token seems too short. Please check your API token.",
is_password=True,
)
TOKEN = t_input
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.stderr.write(
f"\n{Colors.WARNING}⚠️ Sync cancelled by user.{Colors.ENDC}\n"
)
exit(130)
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The new KeyboardInterrupt handler around the interactive prompts (lines 1226–1266) introduces user-visible behavior (exit code 130 and a specific warning message to stderr) but there are no tests covering this path, even though other interactive CLI behaviors in main() are well covered in test_main.py. Consider adding a test that simulates a KeyboardInterrupt during get_validated_input (e.g., via a side-effect on input/getpass) and asserts that main() exits with code 130 and emits the expected "Sync cancelled by user" message to stderr, to prevent regressions in this UX-critical flow.

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Code Review

This pull request enhances the CLI tool's user experience by gracefully handling Ctrl+C during interactive prompts, adding a usage example to the --help output, and removing a redundant function. The changes are well-implemented and do not introduce any security vulnerabilities. There is one suggestion to improve the robustness of the exit handling.

sys.stderr.write(
f"\n{Colors.WARNING}⚠️ Sync cancelled by user.{Colors.ENDC}\n"
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exit(130)

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medium

For better portability and explicitness, it's recommended to use sys.exit() instead of the built-in exit(). The exit() function is part of the site module and is primarily intended for use in the interactive interpreter; it may not be available in all Python environments (e.g., when running with the -S flag). Since sys is already imported, using sys.exit() is a more robust choice for scripts.

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exit(130)
sys.exit(130)

Copilot AI added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 8, 2026
…itization, add dry-run plan details

Incorporates the best changes from 36 Jules PRs, addressing review feedback:

Bolt (Performance) - from PR #173:
- Pre-compile PROFILE_ID_PATTERN and RULE_PATTERN at module level
- Use compiled patterns in is_valid_profile_id_format, validate_profile_id, and is_valid_rule
- Supersedes PRs: #140, #143, #152, #155, #158, #161, #167, #170, #173

Sentinel (Security) - from PR #172 with review feedback:
- Enhance sanitize_for_log to redact Basic Auth credentials in URLs
- Redact sensitive query parameters (token, key, secret, password, etc.)
- Handle fragment separators (#) per Gemini Code Assist review
- Use [^&#\s]* pattern per Copilot reviewer suggestion
- Update docstring per reviewer suggestion
- Supersedes PRs: #142, #145, #148, #151, #154, #157, #160, #169, #172

Palette (UX) - from PR #174 with lint fixes:
- Add print_plan_details function for dry-run visibility
- Fix duplicate render_progress_bar definition bug
- Supersedes PRs: #139, #141, #144, #147, #150, #153, #156, #159, #162, #165, #168, #171, #174

Also: #146, #149, #164 (parallel folder deletion) and #166 (auto-fix .env perms) are independent features not consolidated here.

Co-authored-by: abhimehro <84992105+abhimehro@users.noreply.github.com>
@abhimehro abhimehro closed this Feb 9, 2026
@abhimehro abhimehro deleted the palette-cli-ux-improvements-14962804680975856503 branch February 9, 2026 00:21
abhimehro added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 9, 2026
…itization, add dry-run plan details

Incorporates the best changes from 36 Jules PRs, addressing review feedback:

Bolt (Performance) - from PR #173:
- Pre-compile PROFILE_ID_PATTERN and RULE_PATTERN at module level
- Use compiled patterns in is_valid_profile_id_format, validate_profile_id, and is_valid_rule
- Supersedes PRs: #140, #143, #152, #155, #158, #161, #167, #170, #173

Sentinel (Security) - from PR #172 with review feedback:
- Enhance sanitize_for_log to redact Basic Auth credentials in URLs
- Redact sensitive query parameters (token, key, secret, password, etc.)
- Handle fragment separators (#) per Gemini Code Assist review
- Use [^&#\s]* pattern per Copilot reviewer suggestion
- Update docstring per reviewer suggestion
- Supersedes PRs: #142, #145, #148, #151, #154, #157, #160, #169, #172

Palette (UX) - from PR #174 with lint fixes:
- Add print_plan_details function for dry-run visibility
- Fix duplicate render_progress_bar definition bug
- Supersedes PRs: #139, #141, #144, #147, #150, #153, #156, #159, #162, #165, #168, #171, #174

Also: #146, #149, #164 (parallel folder deletion) and #166 (auto-fix .env perms) are independent features not consolidated here.

Co-authored-by: abhimehro <84992105+abhimehro@users.noreply.github.com>
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