caoscrawler.macros.macro_yaml_object module

class caoscrawler.macros.macro_yaml_object.MacroDefinition(name: str, params: Dict[str, Any], definition: Any)

Bases: object

Stores a macro definition. name: Name of the macro params: variables and default values to be substituted in keys or values definition: A dictionary that will be substituted including parameters

definition: Any

name: str

params: Dict[str, Any]

caoscrawler.macros.macro_yaml_object.defmacro_constructor(loader, node)

Function for registering macros in yaml files.

It can be registered in pyaml using: yaml.SafeLoader.add_constructor(“!defmacro”, defmacro_constructor)

caoscrawler.macros.macro_yaml_object.macro_constructor(loader, node)

Function for substituting macros in yaml files.

It can be registered in pyaml using: yaml.SafeLoader.add_constructor(“!macro”, macro_constructor)

caoscrawler.macros.macro_yaml_object.substitute(propvalue, values: dict)

Substitution of variables in strings using the variable substitution library from python’s standard library.

caoscrawler.macros.macro_yaml_object.substitute_dict(sourced: Dict[str, Any], values: Dict[str, Any])

Create a copy of sourced. Afterwards recursively do variable substitution on all keys and values.