Re: [Configobj-develop] validating using a default string value that includes a newline character?

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

David Hostetler wrote:
> I'm having a devil of a time getting validate to allow for the default 
> value of a string check to consist of a string that includes a newline 
> character ('\n').  I've tried several syntactic variants, and nothing 
> is working - the validation fails everytime.
>
> E.g.:
>
>     spec = { u'val': u"string(default='%s')" % ('\n') }
>     cfgdict = {}
>
>     vtor = validate.Validator()
>     cfg = configobj.ConfigObj(cfgdict, configspec=spec)
>
>     results = cfg.validate(vtor, preserve_errors=True)
>
> In addition to the spec as shown above, I've tried:
>
>     spec = { u'val': u"string(default='\n')" }
>
>     spec = { u'val': u""""string(default='
> ')""" }
>
>
> I even tried putting the spec into a text block and using splitlines() 
> and giving that as the configspec argument (where the text block used 
> the '''<value>''' syntax for multi-line values).
>
> No joy.
>
> The validation parser seems to treat any newline as the end of the 
> spec definition for that particular value, and either bombs out with a 
> parse error, or returns False upon validation.
>
> Any tips?  Bug?

Hmm... probably the regular expression matching used in validation can't 
handle the newlines. Hopefully adding re.DOTALL to some of the regular 
expressions in validate.py will  fix it.

I'm unlikely to be able to get to it for a few weeks - so patches 
(including tests!) welcomed. :-)

All the best,


Michael Foord

>
> thanks,
>
> - David Hostetler
>
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