Allow calling the external functions with normal dicts

diff --git a/auto_debuild.py b/auto_debuild.py
index f9f0672244dde929712cb789ba8da3f8a33f6ea8..e629a23b985dbe79f345b3ca54c7b7aec0338a92 100755 (executable)
--- a/auto_debuild.py
+++ b/auto_debuild.py
@@ -2,13 +2,16 @@
 import os, shutil, stat, time, subprocess, sys
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
-# a dict with some useful additional getters
-class AdvancedDict(dict):
+# a dict with some useful additional getters which can convert types and handle one-element lists like their single member
+class ConfigDict(dict):
        def getstr(self, name, default = None):
                if not name in self: return default
                val = self[name]
-               if len(val) != 1: raise Exception('%s is a list, but it should not' % name)
-               return val[0]
+               if isinstance(val, list):
+                       if len(val) != 1: raise Exception('%s is a list, but it should not' % name)
+                       return val[0]
+               else:
+                       return val
        
        def getint(self, name, default = None):
                return int(self.getstr(name, default))
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ def loadConfigFile(file):
        # read config file
        linenr = 0
        with open(file) as file:
-               result = AdvancedDict()
+               result = ConfigDict()
                curKey = None
                for line in file:
                        linenr += 1
@@ -168,6 +171,8 @@ def writeDependency(f, name, list):
 
 # actual work functions
 def createDebianFiles(config):
+       if not isinstance(config, ConfigDict):
+               config = ConfigDict(config)
        sourceName = config.getstr('sourceName')
        binaryName = config.getstr('binaryName', sourceName+'-local')
        name = config.getstr('name', os.getenv('USER')) # os.getlogin() fails in minimal chroots
@@ -307,6 +312,8 @@ def createDebianFiles(config):
        return files
 
 def buildDebianPackage(config):
+       if not isinstance(config, ConfigDict):
+               config = ConfigDict(config)
        commands = ['dpkg-checkbuilddeps', 'debian/rules clean', 'debian/rules build', 'fakeroot debian/rules binary', 'debian/rules clean']
        command = ['bash', '-c', ' && '.join(commands)] # make it all one command, so we don't have to open and close the chroot too often
        subprocess.check_call(commandInBuildEnv(config, command))