Run a command from within a script

Often we want to run other OpenIDE commands from a script. In this script we will run the editor goto command to open a file in the editor. In this script we wait for the command to finish while it's ok to not to wait if you are with it running asynchronously.

This sample is in python as I enjoy using python. You can use any language you want

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys

def print_definitions():
    print("Opens the running scrip in the editor")

def write(msg):
    sys.stdout.write(msg+"\n")
    sys.stdout.flush()

def wait_for_command():
    while True:
        line = sys.stdin.readline().strip("\n")
        if line == "end-of-command":
            break

def run_command(run_location, global_profile, local_profile, args):
    # Runs editor goto command to open current file on line 1 column 1
    # Waiting for the command to finish is not required it is just
    # here to show you how to do it.
    write("command|editor goto \""+sys.argv[0]+"|1|1\"")
    wait_for_command()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    args = sys.argv
    if len(args) > 1 and args[2] == 'get-command-definitions':
        print_definitions()
    else:
        run_command(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4:])