Xonsh autocompletion with bash bridge

[malys]

Context:

• XONSH shell on linux

# *** Carapace ***
$CARAPACE_BRIDGES='bash'
$COMPLETIONS_CONFIRM=True
exec($(carapace _carapace xonsh))

• native autocompletion is working

I have installed https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli.
This cli supports bash completion and in bash shell, it's working fine.

But in XONSH shell + carapace, jira autocompletion doesn't work. CARAPACE_BRIDGES has not effect.
I have tried:

#~/.config/carapace/bridges.yaml generic bridges can be configured for commands.
jira: bash

It's not fixing the issue.

I don't understand exactly what's wrong, and the documentation is not very clear.

How can I fix this problem?
How can I debug?
Could you confirm the process to declare a bridge.

[malys]

What is the best way for community support? Github?

[rsteube]

Longterm here (discussions) and in the matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/%23carapace-sh:matrix.org .
But not that many frequent these places (yet) so your shell's own community channel can be a good place.

[rsteube]

How can I fix this problem?

Bridging shells is a bit tricky, so there can be all kinds of reasons for this.
This one uses cobra so the best way would probably be to bridge that directly:

jira: cobra

How can I debug?

You can enable logging with CARAPACE_LOG which writes to ${TEMP}/carapace/{binary}.log
Source code for the bridge is at carapace-bridge.

Could you confirm the process to declare a bridge.

Config looks fine. bridges.yaml is and optional variant and is more useful to directly bridge frameworks (better performance/quality than shells).
The bash completion should already be provided by the implicit bridge (CARAPACE_BRIDGES).
The bridge uses a custom ~/.config/carapace/bridge/bash/.bashrc, so if the completion script is not sourced system wide you might need to add that there.

[rsteube]

Also, check if ~/.config is actually correct on your system (carapace -h - "Config is written to...").
Can be different when using XDG environment variables or when not on linux.

[malys]

Work fine!! Thanks