Is there a way to bazel run args for executable in DefaultInfo?

[carpen...@gmail.com]

On Windows, I have an executable rule which returns an executable in its default info. I would like to be able to return the commandline arguments to pass to that executable when you call bazel run. This executable is just a py_binary that gets passed into the rule, generating the commandline from the rule is the important bit. 

What I want is the equivilant of passing in args as an attribute when you declare a target based on that rule. 

I can write a batch file, and get it to call my binary, but for that to work I always need to pass --run_under=cmd which doesn't give an elegant interface. 

Background info, what I want to do eventually is `bazel run //subasset:publish_outputs` and have the rule take care of all the dependency management and publishing parameters

Thanks

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[Yannic Bonenberger]

You can pass them on the command-line if you add -- as seperator betwee

Bazel flags/the target and the options to pass to the executable.

Example: bazel run @com_google_protobuf//:protoc --compilation_mode=opt -- —help

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Am 30.07.2021 um 21:18 schrieb Yannic Bonenberger <yan...@engflow.com>:

You can pass them on the command-line if you add -- as seperator betwee

Bazel flags/the target and the options to pass to the executable.

Example: bazel run @com_google_protobuf//:protoc --compilation_mode=opt -- --help

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[Jonathan Schear]

I'm not aware of a way of doing this, but I would really appreciate this functionality. One workaround I've seen is to use `actions.expand_template` to replace known tokens within the Python script -- sort of "sideloading" the arguments.