return a list of methods on this class for executing actions.
        methods are return as a list of (name, func) tuples

def get_action_methods(self):
        """
        return a list of methods on this class for executing actions.
        methods are return as a list of (name, func) tuples
        """
        return [(name, getattr(self, name))
                for name, _ in Action.get_command_types()]