Only split CSV in the client, quote instead of escaping

Splitting on commas is not an idempotent operation:
'a,b\,c' -> ('a', 'b,c') -> ('a', 'b', 'c')

That means we can't do it when the call is forwarded, so this is only
done on the CLI. The UI already sends values as a tuple.

Replace escaping in the csv parser with quoting. Quoted strings can have
embedded commas instead of having to escape them. This prevents the csv
parser from eating all escape characters.

Also, document Param's csv arguments, and update tests.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2417
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2227

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/ipalib/parameters.py b/ipalib/parameters.py
index 94f11d912..ec6020e52 100644
--- a/ipalib/parameters.py
+++ b/ipalib/parameters.py
@@ -345,11 +345,16 @@ class Param(ReadOnly):
               is not `required`. Applied for all crud.Update based commands
             * req_update: The parameter is `required` in all crud.Update based
               commands
-      - hint: This attribute is currently not used
+      - hint: this attribute is currently not used
       - alwaysask: when enabled, CLI asks for parameter value even when the
         parameter is not `required`
       - sortorder: used to sort a list of parameters for Command. See
         `Command.finalize()` for further information
+      - csv: this multivalue attribute is given in CSV format
+      - csv_separator: character that separates values in CSV (comma by
+        default)
+      - csv_skipspace: if true, leading whitespace will be ignored in
+        individual CSV values
     """
 
     # This is a dummy type so that most of the functionality of Param can be
@@ -697,13 +702,47 @@ class Param(ReadOnly):
         # csv.py doesn't do Unicode; encode temporarily as UTF-8:
         csv_reader = csv.reader(self.__utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data),
                                 dialect=dialect,
-                                delimiter=self.csv_separator, escapechar='\\',
+                                delimiter=self.csv_separator, quotechar='"',
                                 skipinitialspace=self.csv_skipspace,
                                 **kwargs)
         for row in csv_reader:
             # decode UTF-8 back to Unicode, cell by cell:
             yield [unicode(cell, 'utf-8') for cell in row]
 
+    def split_csv(self, value):
+        """Split CSV strings into individual values.
+
+        For CSV params, ``value`` is a tuple of strings. Each of these is split
+        on commas, and the results are concatenated into one tuple.
+
+        For example::
+
+            >>> param = Param('telephones', multivalue=True, csv=True)
+            >>> param.split_csv((u'1, 2', u'3', u'4, 5, 6'))
+            (u'1', u'2', u'3', u'4', u'5', u'6')
+
+        If ``value`` is not a tuple (or list), it is only split::
+
+            >>> param = Param('telephones', multivalue=True, csv=True)
+            >>> param.split_csv(u'1, 2, 3')
+            (u'1', u'2', u'3')
+
+        For non-CSV params, return the value unchanged.
+        """
+        if self.csv:
+            if type(value) not in (tuple, list):
+                value = (value,)
+            newval = ()
+            for v in value:
+                if isinstance(v, basestring):
+                    csvreader = self.__unicode_csv_reader([unicode(v)])
+                    newval += tuple(csvreader.next()) #pylint: disable=E1101
+                else:
+                    newval += (v,)
+            return newval
+        else:
+            return value
+
     def normalize(self, value):
         """
         Normalize ``value`` using normalizer callback.
@@ -730,15 +769,6 @@ class Param(ReadOnly):
         if self.multivalue:
             if type(value) not in (tuple, list):
                 value = (value,)
-            if self.csv:
-                newval = ()
-                for v in value:
-                    if isinstance(v, basestring):
-                        csvreader = self.__unicode_csv_reader([unicode(v)])
-                        newval += tuple(csvreader.next()) #pylint: disable=E1101
-                    else:
-                        newval += (v,)
-                value = newval
         if self.multivalue:
             return tuple(
                 self._normalize_scalar(v) for v in value