diff mercurial/templater.py @ 24280:6c55e37ba5f2

templater: allow piping generator-type function output to filters

Template functions use "yield"s assuming that the result will be combined
into a string, which means both "f -> str" and "f -> generator" should behave
in the same way.

Before this patch, piping generator function resulted in a cryptic error.
We had to insert "|stringify" in this case.

  $ hg log --template '{if(author, author)|user}\n'
  abort: template filter 'userfilter' is not compatible with keyword
  '[(<function runsymbol at 0x7f5af2e8d8c0>, 'author'),
    (<function runsymbol at 0x7f5af2e8d8c0>, 'author')]'

--- a/mercurial/templater.py	Wed Mar 11 15:22:34 2015 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/templater.py	Tue Feb 24 00:04:55 2015 +0900
@@ -162,8 +162,13 @@
 
 def runfilter(context, mapping, data):
     func, data, filt = data
+    # func() may return string, generator of strings or arbitrary object such
+    # as date tuple, but filter does not want generator.
+    thing = func(context, mapping, data)
+    if isinstance(thing, types.GeneratorType):
+        thing = stringify(thing)
     try:
-        return filt(func(context, mapping, data))
+        return filt(thing)
     except (ValueError, AttributeError, TypeError):
         if isinstance(data, tuple):
             dt = data[1]