SUMMARY

On some cases, when trying to display the help st2 run action pack.action -h on an action that has ordered parameters like this one from the librenms pack

STACKSTORM VERSION

Paste the output of st2 --version:

st2 --version
st2 3.3.0, on Python 3.9.1

OS, environment, install method

Post what OS you are running this on, along with any other relevant information/

• st2-docker

Steps to reproduce the problem

Install the following pack : https://github.com/kedare/stackstorm-librenms
Try to run the following command :

st2 run librenms.get_bgp_sessions -h
st2 run librenms.get_devices -h

Expected Results

The help to be shown

Actual Results

The following output is displayed

Get BGP sessions

ERROR: Unable to print help for action "librenms.get_bgp_sessions". '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

Investigation

The error is catched there

Help by amanda on the Slack channel:

Added some debug after reproducing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/stackstorm/st2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/st2client/commands/action.py", line 771, in _print_help
    names=optional)
  File "/opt/stackstorm/st2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/st2client/commands/action.py", line 898, in _sort_parameters
    sorted_parameters = sorted(names, key=lambda name:
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

It looks like it's to do with the position parameters, the sort uses name or position depending on which is given.
If I get rid of the position attributes, then the help works.

So looks like a bug that when it does the sort it indices some by position and others by name, and then can't sort. As presumably the parameters from the runner are indexed by name.
Could you raise an issue on ST2 for this? I think it's probalby that in python 2 it would allow this comparison, but on python 3 then we probably need to convert the position to a string in that sort. So it should be a simple fix to ST2 if you want to take a look.