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-rw-r--r--RELEASE.md3
-rw-r--r--docs/settings.rst9
-rw-r--r--pelican/__init__.py50
-rw-r--r--pelican/settings.py23
-rw-r--r--pelican/tests/test_settings.py17
5 files changed, 42 insertions, 60 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..76e47100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Release type: patch
+
+Fix incorrect parsing of parameters specified via `-e` / `--extra-settings` option flags (#2938).
diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index 47852527..675e6b8f 100644
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ line::
If you used the ``pelican-quickstart`` command, your primary settings file will
be named ``pelicanconf.py`` by default.
-You can also specify extra settings via ``-e`` / ``--extra-settings`` option
-flags, which will override default settings as well as any defined within
-settings files::
+You can also specify settings via ``-e`` / ``--extra-settings`` option
+flags. It will override default settings as well as any defined within the
+setting file. Note that values must follow JSON notation::
+
+ pelican content -e SITENAME='"A site"' READERS='{"html": null}' CACHE_CONTENT=true
- pelican content -e DELETE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=true
.. note::
diff --git a/pelican/__init__.py b/pelican/__init__.py
index 99aa2776..9858dbd3 100644
--- a/pelican/__init__.py
+++ b/pelican/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
import argparse
+import json
import logging
import multiprocessing
import os
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ from pelican.plugins import signals
from pelican.plugins._utils import get_plugin_name, load_plugins
from pelican.readers import Readers
from pelican.server import ComplexHTTPRequestHandler, RootedHTTPServer
-from pelican.settings import coerce_overrides, read_settings
+from pelican.settings import read_settings
from pelican.utils import (FileSystemWatcher, clean_output_dir, maybe_pluralize)
from pelican.writers import Writer
@@ -259,16 +260,29 @@ class PrintSettings(argparse.Action):
parser.exit()
-class ParseDict(argparse.Action):
+class ParseOverrides(argparse.Action):
def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None):
- d = {}
- if values:
- for item in values:
- split_items = item.split("=", 1)
- key = split_items[0].strip()
- value = split_items[1].strip()
- d[key] = value
- setattr(namespace, self.dest, d)
+ overrides = {}
+ for item in values:
+ try:
+ k, v = item.split("=", 1)
+ except ValueError:
+ raise ValueError(
+ 'Extra settings must be specified as KEY=VALUE pairs '
+ f'but you specified {item}'
+ )
+ try:
+ overrides[k] = json.loads(v)
+ except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+ raise ValueError(
+ f'Invalid JSON value: {v}. '
+ 'Values specified via -e / --extra-settings flags '
+ 'must be in JSON notation. '
+ 'Use -e KEY=\'"string"\' to specify a string value; '
+ '-e KEY=null to specify None; '
+ '-e KEY=false (or true) to specify False (or True).'
+ )
+ setattr(namespace, self.dest, overrides)
def parse_arguments(argv=None):
@@ -366,13 +380,13 @@ def parse_arguments(argv=None):
parser.add_argument('-e', '--extra-settings', dest='overrides',
help='Specify one or more SETTING=VALUE pairs to '
- 'override settings. If VALUE contains spaces, '
- 'add quotes: SETTING="VALUE". Values other than '
- 'integers and strings can be specified via JSON '
- 'notation. (e.g., SETTING=none)',
+ 'override settings. VALUE must be in JSON notation: '
+ 'specify string values as SETTING=\'"some string"\'; '
+ 'booleans as SETTING=true or SETTING=false; '
+ 'None as SETTING=null.',
nargs='*',
- action=ParseDict
- )
+ action=ParseOverrides,
+ default={})
args = parser.parse_args(argv)
@@ -385,6 +399,8 @@ def parse_arguments(argv=None):
def get_config(args):
+ """Builds a config dictionary based on supplied `args`.
+ """
config = {}
if args.path:
config['PATH'] = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(args.path))
@@ -409,7 +425,7 @@ def get_config(args):
if args.bind is not None:
config['BIND'] = args.bind
config['DEBUG'] = args.verbosity == logging.DEBUG
- config.update(coerce_overrides(args.overrides))
+ config.update(args.overrides)
return config
diff --git a/pelican/settings.py b/pelican/settings.py
index ea3ee8eb..5b495e86 100644
--- a/pelican/settings.py
+++ b/pelican/settings.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
import copy
import importlib.util
import inspect
-import json
import locale
import logging
import os
@@ -659,25 +658,3 @@ def configure_settings(settings):
continue # setting not specified, nothing to do
return settings
-
-
-def coerce_overrides(overrides):
- if overrides is None:
- return {}
- coerced = {}
- types_to_cast = {int, str, bool}
- for k, v in overrides.items():
- if k not in DEFAULT_CONFIG:
- logger.warning('Override for unknown setting %s, ignoring', k)
- continue
- setting_type = type(DEFAULT_CONFIG[k])
- if setting_type not in types_to_cast:
- coerced[k] = json.loads(v)
- else:
- try:
- coerced[k] = setting_type(v)
- except ValueError:
- logger.debug('ValueError for %s override with %s, try to '
- 'load as json', k, v)
- coerced[k] = json.loads(v)
- return coerced
diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_settings.py b/pelican/tests/test_settings.py
index 83203ae5..c407f7c8 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_settings.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_settings.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from sys import platform
from pelican.settings import (DEFAULT_CONFIG, DEFAULT_THEME,
_printf_s_to_format_field,
- coerce_overrides, configure_settings,
+ configure_settings,
handle_deprecated_settings, read_settings)
from pelican.tests.support import unittest
@@ -304,18 +304,3 @@ class TestSettingsConfiguration(unittest.TestCase):
[(r'C\+\+', 'cpp')] +
self.settings['SLUG_REGEX_SUBSTITUTIONS'])
self.assertNotIn('SLUG_SUBSTITUTIONS', settings)
-
- def test_coerce_overrides(self):
- overrides = coerce_overrides({
- 'ARTICLE_EXCLUDES': '["testexcl"]',
- 'READERS': '{"foo": "bar"}',
- 'STATIC_EXCLUDE_SOURCES': 'true',
- 'THEME_STATIC_DIR': 'theme',
- })
- expected = {
- 'ARTICLE_EXCLUDES': ["testexcl"],
- 'READERS': {"foo": "bar"},
- 'STATIC_EXCLUDE_SOURCES': True,
- 'THEME_STATIC_DIR': 'theme',
- }
- self.assertDictEqual(overrides, expected)