def validate()

in scripts/cronjobs/parseprojects.py [0:0]

• 22 lines of code
• 9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def validate(json, tag, valid, pid, url):
    if tag in json:
        outvals = []
        invals = re.split(r',\s*', json[tag]) # allow for missing space after comma
        for val in invals:
            canon = valid.get(val.lower())
            if canon is None:
                if len(val) > 30: # can this be a legal value?
                    # only warn the project once a week
                    if datetime.today().weekday() == 4: # Monday=0
                        printNotice(f"ERROR: illegal (overlong: {len(val)} >30) value '{val}' for {pid} in {url}",
                                body = f'Error in {url}\nUnexpected value: "{val}"\n{SYNTAX_MSG[tag]}',
                                project=pid)
                else:
                    print(f"WARN: unexpected value '{val}' for {pid} in {url}")#, project=pid)
                    outvals.append(val) # TODO flag this to show invalid entries
            elif canon != val:
                print(f"WARN: '{val}' should be '{canon}' for {pid} in {url}")
                outvals.append(canon)
            else:
                outvals.append(val)
        if outvals != invals:
            json[tag] = ", ".join(outvals)