view mercurial/thirdparty/attr/converters.py @ 47387:75e1104f23a2

revlog: use dedicated code for reading sidedata

We are about to introduce a new, dedicated, file to store sidedata. Before doing so, we make sidedata reading go through different code as reading data chunk. This will simplify some of the complexity of the next changesets.

The reading is very simple right now and will need some improvement later to
reuse some of the caching strategy we use for the data file.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10785

"""
Commonly useful converters.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function


def optional(converter):
    """
    A converter that allows an attribute to be optional. An optional attribute
    is one which can be set to ``None``.

    :param callable converter: the converter that is used for non-``None``
        values.

    ..  versionadded:: 17.1.0
    """

    def optional_converter(val):
        if val is None:
            return None
        return converter(val)

    return optional_converter