templatefuncs: show hint if extdata source is evaluated to empty (
issue5843)
--- a/mercurial/templatefuncs.py Fri May 04 21:31:34 2018 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/templatefuncs.py Thu Apr 19 21:00:12 2018 +0900
@@ -113,6 +113,13 @@
raise error.ParseError(_('extdata expects one argument'))
source = evalstring(context, mapping, args['source'])
+ if not source:
+ sym = templateutil.findsymbolicname(args['source'])
+ if sym:
+ raise error.ParseError(_('empty data source specified'),
+ hint=_("did you mean extdata('%s')?") % sym)
+ else:
+ raise error.ParseError(_('empty data source specified'))
cache = context.resource(mapping, 'cache').setdefault('extdata', {})
ctx = context.resource(mapping, 'ctx')
if source in cache:
--- a/tests/test-extdata.t Fri May 04 21:31:34 2018 -0700
+++ b/tests/test-extdata.t Thu Apr 19 21:00:12 2018 +0900
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@
$ hg log -T "{extdata('unknown')}\n"
abort: unknown extdata source 'unknown'
[255]
+ $ hg log -T "{extdata(unknown)}\n"
+ hg: parse error: empty data source specified
+ (did you mean extdata('unknown')?)
+ [255]
+ $ hg log -T "{extdata('{unknown}')}\n"
+ hg: parse error: empty data source specified
+ [255]
we don't fix up relative file URLs, but we do run shell commands in repo root