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-rw-r--r--src/lib/Bcfg2/DBSettings.py4
-rw-r--r--src/lib/Bcfg2/Options/Types.py27
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 24 deletions
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):