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

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

David Hostetler wrote:
> I have the newline support implemented (with tests).
>
> Would you prefer a diff, or just the validate.py?

Diff against svn head is perfect.

Michael

>
> cheers,
>
> -hoss
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 18:17, Michael Foord 
> <fuz...@vo... <mailto:fuz...@vo...>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>
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