Issue 6552 - Support arbitrary manifest values

chainedconfigparser.py

Index: chainedconfigparser.py
diff --git a/chainedconfigparser.py b/chainedconfigparser.py
index ce26b04b50e175e1cbd99a772f2a589acd1ac64c..63ccc42145afcdb4f00b23dd8accddcce5cf36b0 100644
--- a/chainedconfigparser.py
+++ b/chainedconfigparser.py
@@ -93,15 +93,15 @@ class ChainedConfigParser(ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser):
             except ConfigParser.NoOptionError:
                 raise DiffForUnknownOptionError(option, section)
 
-            orig_values = orig_value.split()
-            diff_values = value.split()
+            orig_values = orig_value.splitlines()
+            diff_values = value.splitlines()
 
             if is_addition:
                 new_values = orig_values + [v for v in diff_values if v not in orig_values]
             else:
                 new_values = [v for v in orig_values if v not in diff_values]
 
-            value = ' '.join(new_values)
+            value = '\n'.join(new_values)
 
         return is_diff, option, value
 
@@ -157,6 +157,83 @@ class ChainedConfigParser(ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser):
                 raise ConfigParser.NoSectionError(section)
             raise ConfigParser.NoOptionError(option, section)
 
+    def section_as_dict(self, section, additional={}):
+        """Parse a given section into a dictionary.
+
+        Parse arbitrary key/value pairs from 'section' of the current
+        configuration into a dictionary and merge it with the optional
+        parameter `additional`.
+
+        The following rules need to be considered:
+
+        * An option's key may be declared as a series of nested dictionary keys,
+          seperated by '.'.
+        * Declaring an option's value in a new line (even if only one is given)
+          will define the option's value as an array.
+        * When an option's value is defined as an array, no other nested
+          objects may follow.
+        * An array is expandable by the ConfigParser's '+=' token (Note: A
+          previously declared string will be converted into an array).
+        * Values may be marked as `number` or `bool` by prefixing them
+          accordingly (this also applies to values in an array):
+          * bool:<value>
+          * number:<value>
+
+        Example:
+                                    {
+        foo = foo                     "foo": "foo",
+        asd =                         "asd": ["asd"],
+            asd                       "bar": {
+        bar.baz = a                     "baz": ["a", "c", "d"]
+        baz.foo = a                   },
+        baz.z =                       "baz": {
+            bar                         "foo": "a",
+            bool:true           ===>    "z": ["bar", true]
+        bar.baz +=                    },
+            c                         "bad": true,
+            d                         "good": false,
+        bad = bool:true               "is": {
+        good = bool:false               "integer": 1,
+        is.integer = number:1           "float": 1.4
+        is.float = number:1.4         }
+                                    }
+        """
+        def parse_values(v):
+            if isinstance(v, list):
+                return [parse_values(x) for x in v]

[Sebastian Noack, 2018/04/18 15:59:00]

Checking for lists and recursively calling this function is unnecessary. The
logic is simpler if you just move it where you check for the newline:

  if '\n' in v:
      ... = [parse_value(x) for x in v.splitlines() if x]
  else:
      ... = parse_value(v)

[tlucas, 2018/04/19 10:01:39]

Done.

+
+            if v.startswith('number:'):
+                v = v.split(':', 1)[1]
+                try:
+                    v = int(v)

[Sebastian Noack, 2018/04/18 15:58:59]

Nit: I wouldn't reassign v, but just return the parsed values right away. (Then
you can also turn the "elif"s below into "if"s.)

[tlucas, 2018/04/19 10:01:39]

Done.

+                except ValueError:
+                    v = float(v)
+            elif v == 'bool:true':
+                v = True
+            elif v == 'bool:false':
+                v = False
+            return v
+
+        def setdefault_recursive(target, keys, value):
+            if len(keys) == 1:
+                target.setdefault(keys[0], parse_values(value))
+            else:
+                current = target.setdefault(keys[0], {})
+                setdefault_recursive(current, keys[1:], value)
+
+        data = self.items(section)
+        result = {}
+
+        for k, v in data:
+            if '\n' in v:
+                v = [x for x in v.splitlines() if x]
+
+            setdefault_recursive(result, k.split('.'), v)

[Sebastian Noack, 2018/04/18 15:59:00]

The recursion here is unnecessary:

  parents = k.split('.')
  tail = parents.pop()
  current = result
  for name in parents:
      current = current.setdefault(name, {})
  current[tail] = ...

[tlucas, 2018/04/19 10:01:39]

Done.

+
+        result.update(additional)

[Sebastian Noack, 2018/04/18 15:58:59]

Well, the point of passing the generated part of the document into this function
was to properly (deep) merge it with the content from the "manifest" section.

So essentially this line should not exist, neither should the line that creates
the new dictionary above (and assigns it to "result"). Instead you should just
add stuff to the dictionary passed to this function.

Here is a realistic example where this would be useful: The browser_action
sub-document is generated like this (copied from the actual build):

  "browser_action": {
    "default_icon": {
      "16": "icons/abp-16.png",
      "19": "icons/abp-19.png",
      "20": "icons/abp-20.png",
      "32": "icons/abp-32.png",
      "38": "icons/abp-38.png",
      "40": "icons/abp-40.png"
    },
    "default_title": "__MSG_name__"
  },

Now somebody wants to use the browser_action.browser_style property and could
just add it to the "manifest" section and it gets added to the generated output.

[tlucas, 2018/04/19 10:01:40]

Done.

+
+        return result
+
     def readfp(self, fp, filename=None):
         raise NotImplementedError