py3: stop normalizing 2nd argument of *attr() to unicode Now that we don't byteify strings, we can stop normalizing the 2nd string argument to getattr() and remove explicit overrides we were using in the code base. We no longer use some helper functions in the source transformer, so we remove those as well. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7012

log: populate keywords if specified in custom -Tjson(...) or -Tcbor(...) To make things simple, early return for ui.quiet is disabled if the formatter is templated and provides some datahint().

formatter: map -Tjson(...) and -Tcbor(...) to templater Even though custom JSON output could be generated by using --config template.json="{dict(...)|json}" ..., doing that is tedious because of the trailing comma handling. This patch introduces special syntax for JSON/CBOR formats. -Tjson(...) is translated to template as if function-style template definition were supported: [templates] json(...) = "{dict(...)|json}" json(...):docheader = "[\n " json(...):docfooter = "\n]\n" json(...):separator = ",\n "

formatter: parse name of built-in formatter templates in standard way This slightly makes it easier to add "-Tjson(...)" handling, which should be enabled only if the template specifier doesn't look like a literal template. In other words, it should be handled after "if '{' in tmpl". This makes "log -Tpickle" and "log -Tdebug" abort, which I think is better than just printing "picklepicklepickle...".

formatter: pass in template spec to templateformatter as argument Prepare for the next patch, which will unify handling of the formatter names and the template names.

templater: add public parseexpr() function to parse "-Tjson(...)" Extracted _addparseerrorhint() to show nicer hint on error.