caddyfile: Allow block to do nothing if nothing passed to import#7206
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@francislavoie i guess the chance that anyone is using {block} or {blocks.key} in their caddyfile and not trying to use the feature is very very small. i dont think anyone complained. maybe we could put a small note in the release, but im not sure its needed dont really see any problems, the code is good. |
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Ah sorry, I didn't see this PR for some reason when you made it. LGTM!
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Resolve issue caddyserver#7557 So, here is the situation: - Pull request caddyserver#7206 included some changes to the doImport's function of Caddyfile's parser. What it does is that if there is no token within a block that follows the import, and the import contains `{block}`, then the `{block}` token is discarded. - This implementation had a few flaws: - Issue caddyserver#7518 noticed that in cases that `{block}` was not imported, a runtime error was raised due to the assumption that tokens were always added to `tokensCopy` on every iteration of `importedTokens`. This was fixed by pull request caddyserver#7543. - Issue caddyserver#7557 notices that {block} can be ignored when imported from a certain file. There, it's again an issue with how the import works. When `import snippets` is called, this import instruction doesn't contains any nested blocks. And when the argument replacer that is the `importedTokens` loop is called and finds `{block}`, it uses the block from the file's import (which in this case is nothing), `{block}` is erased, and unavailable when the import directive is called for the imported snippet. These changes fix the issues raised in caddyserver#7557 and tries to stabilize the situation by adding a `Disposable` field to `Token`. It works like this: - When a `{block}` is encountered in the argument replacer loop, instead of ignoring it and not copying it, the token is now copied (instead of being erased), but with the `Disposable` field toggled on. - When subsequent imports happens, the "disposable" `{block}` token is available for the processing of the new import, and can be used to call snippets from other files. - When all tokens are processed within a server block, disposable tokens are removed from the keys and segments of the blocks. This way, `{block}` tokens are there for subsequent inputs, and are removed if unused. Tests added in pull requests caddyserver#7206 and caddyserver#7543 passes with this new implementation, confirming that unused `{block}` are accepted if nothing is passed to `import`, as well as the other usual tests. A new test was also added based on issue caddyserver#7557 reporting, and also passes. ... hopefully this commit description is clear? Signed-off-by: prettysunflower <me@prettysunflower.moe>
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Resolve issue caddyserver#7557 So, here is the situation: - Pull request caddyserver#7206 included some changes to the doImport's function of Caddyfile's parser. What it does is that if there is no token within a block that follows the import, and the import contains `{block}`, then the `{block}` token is discarded. - After this pull request: - Issue caddyserver#7518 noticed that in cases that `{block}` was not imported, a runtime error was raised due to the assumption that tokens were always added to `tokensCopy` on every iteration of `importedTokens`. This was fixed by pull request caddyserver#7543. - Issue caddyserver#7557 notices that {block} can be ignored when imported from a certain file. There, it's again an issue with how the import works. When `import snippets` is called, this import instruction doesn't contains any nested blocks. And when the argument replacer that is the `importedTokens` loop is called and finds `{block}`, it uses the block from the file's import (which in this case is nothing), `{block}` is erased, and unavailable when the import directive is called for the imported snippet. The changed in this commit addresses the second issue by checking before replacing `{block}` if we're currently in a snippet definition, and appending the `{block}` token to `tokensCopy` if we are. With this changes, when importing those snippets, the `{block}` token will be available to be replaced by the nested blocks in `tokensToAdd` if needed, or erased if there are no nested blocks and `tokensToAdd` is empty. Tests added in pull requests caddyserver#7206 and caddyserver#7543 passes with this new implementation, confirming that unused `{block}` are accepted if nothing is passed to `import`, as well as the other usual tests. A new test was also added based on issue caddyserver#7557 reporting, and also passes. Signed-off-by: prettysunflower <me@prettysunflower.moe>
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Fixes #6821
Before the parser left the
{block}-token (or{blocks.key}-token) as is during parsing, if the corresponding import did not specify any block (pasting it into the import-body as a literal).After this change, the parser ignores
{block}tokens, if there is no body to replace it with.Also add two adapt-tests to pin the new behavior of
{block}and{blocks.key}respectively.