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-rw-r--r--doc/releases/1.4.0pre2.txt5
-rw-r--r--src/lib/Bcfg2/DBSettings.py4
-rw-r--r--src/lib/Bcfg2/Options/Types.py27
-rw-r--r--testsuite/Testsrc/Testlib/TestOptions/TestTypes.py20
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/doc/releases/1.4.0pre2.txt b/doc/releases/1.4.0pre2.txt
index a5c10777a..195f81df0 100644
--- a/doc/releases/1.4.0pre2.txt
+++ b/doc/releases/1.4.0pre2.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ backwards-incompatible user-facing changes
This fixes potentially long client runs when comparing files that have
diverged significantly.
+* The database options in the config (options and reporting_options in database
+ section) now have to be literal python dictionaries.
+
+ This allows to set arbitrary options with nested settings.
+
Thanks
------
diff --git a/src/lib/Bcfg2/DBSettings.py b/src/lib/Bcfg2/DBSettings.py
index 5a83c25c3..1c8c34978 100644
--- a/src/lib/Bcfg2/DBSettings.py
+++ b/src/lib/Bcfg2/DBSettings.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ class _OptionContainer(object):
dest='db_schema', default='public'),
Bcfg2.Options.Option(
cf=('database', 'options'), help='Database options',
- dest='db_opts', type=Bcfg2.Options.Types.comma_dict,
+ dest='db_opts', type=Bcfg2.Options.Types.literal_dict,
default=dict()),
# reporting database options
Bcfg2.Options.Option(
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ class _OptionContainer(object):
Bcfg2.Options.Option(
cf=('database', 'reporting_options'),
help='Reporting database options', dest='reporting_db_opts',
- type=Bcfg2.Options.Types.comma_dict, default=dict()),
+ type=Bcfg2.Options.Types.literal_dict, default=dict()),
# Django options
Bcfg2.Options.Option(
cf=('reporting', 'time_zone'), help='Django timezone'),
diff --git a/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options/Types.py b/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options/Types.py
index ac099e135..ad2e04f10 100644
--- a/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options/Types.py
+++ b/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options/Types.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import os
import re
import pwd
import grp
+from Bcfg2.Compat import literal_eval
_COMMA_SPLIT_RE = re.compile(r'\s*,\s*')
@@ -32,28 +33,10 @@ def colon_list(value):
return value.split(':')
-def comma_dict(value):
- """ Split an option string on commas, optionally surrounded by
- whitespace, and split the resulting items again on equals signs,
- returning a dict """
- result = dict()
- if value:
- items = comma_list(value)
- for item in items:
- if '=' in item:
- key, value = item.split(r'=', 1)
- if value in ["true", "yes", "on"]:
- result[key] = True
- elif value in ["false", "no", "off"]:
- result[key] = False
- else:
- try:
- result[key] = int(value)
- except ValueError:
- result[key] = value
- else:
- result[item] = True
- return result
+def literal_dict(value):
+ """ literally evaluate the option in order to allow for arbitrarily nested
+ dictionaries """
+ return literal_eval(value)
def anchored_regex_list(value):
diff --git a/testsuite/Testsrc/Testlib/TestOptions/TestTypes.py b/testsuite/Testsrc/Testlib/TestOptions/TestTypes.py
index 404d67fdc..0b67db38a 100644
--- a/testsuite/Testsrc/Testlib/TestOptions/TestTypes.py
+++ b/testsuite/Testsrc/Testlib/TestOptions/TestTypes.py
@@ -46,21 +46,23 @@ class TestOptionTypes(Bcfg2TestCase):
self.assertItemsEqual(self._test_options(["--test", "one:two three"]),
["one", "two three"])
- def test_comma_dict(self):
- """parse comma-dict values."""
- self.options = [Option("--test", type=Types.comma_dict)]
+ def test_literal_dict(self):
+ """parse literal-dict values."""
+ self.options = [Option("--test", type=Types.literal_dict)]
expected = {
"one": True,
"two": 2,
"three": "three",
- "four": False}
+ "four": False,
+ "five": {
+ "a": 1,
+ "b": 2
+ }}
self.assertDictEqual(
self._test_options(["--test",
- "one=yes, two=2 , three=three,four=no"]),
- expected)
-
- self.assertDictEqual(
- self._test_options(["--test", "one,two=2,three=three,four=off"]),
+ '''{ "one": True, "two": 2,
+ "three": "three", "four": False,
+ "five": { "a": 1, "b": 2 }}''']),
expected)
def test_anchored_regex_list(self):