[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 05/10] command.py: add parseConfigurationFiles API

[Joshua Lock]

On 13/12/11 16:41, Xu, Dongxiao wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bitbake-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
>> [mailto:bitbake-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Joshua
>> Lock
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:39 AM
>> To: bitbake-devel at lists.openembedded.org
>> Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 05/10] command.py: add
>> parseConfigurationFiles API
>>
>> On 11/12/11 18:20, Dongxiao Xu wrote:
>>> The parseConfigurationFiles API calls the related function in
>>> cooker.py to parse config files.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  lib/bb/command.py |   10 ++++++++++
>>>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/bb/command.py b/lib/bb/command.py index
>>> 701b286..6b4a598 100644
>>> --- a/lib/bb/command.py
>>> +++ b/lib/bb/command.py
>>> @@ -326,3 +326,13 @@ class CommandsAsync:
>>>          else:
>>>              command.finishAsyncCommand()
>>>      compareRevisions.needcache = True
>>> +
>>> +    def parseConfigurationFiles(self, command, params):
>>> +        """
>>> +        Parse the configuration files
>>> +        """
>>> +        prefiles = params[0]
>>> +        postfiles = params[1]
>>
>> Should we be able to use this method without having prefiles and postfiles set
>> in the params container?
>>
>> A common pattern throughout this module is to check the size of the params
>> container [using len(params)] and set appropriate (empty) defaults if all
>> required parameters aren't passed.
> 
> When calling parseConfigurationFiles(), we must pass the prefiles and postfiles as parameters, although they may be empty strings, for example,
> 
> self.server.runCommand(["parseConfigurationFiles", "", ""])

Ah yes, quite right. I remember writing that now.

Thanks,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre