From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:23:20 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Hack Comment.load_settings() to work around From->Author change.
X-Git-Tag: 1.0.0~62^2~46^2~9^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3711c5080619b0decf0ae040a9d244bf3b902c41;p=be.git

Hack Comment.load_settings() to work around From->Author change.

"Author" -> comment.author obeys settings_object.setting_name_to_attr_name(),
but all the current on-disk mapfiles talk about "From".  Add a hack to accept
both forms of on-disk comment files.
---

diff --git a/libbe/comment.py b/libbe/comment.py
index 7b43c08..53519bf 100644
--- a/libbe/comment.py
+++ b/libbe/comment.py
@@ -557,6 +557,9 @@ class Comment(Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject):
         if self.sync_with_disk == False:
             raise DiskAccessRequired("load settings")
         self.settings = mapfile.map_load(self.rcs, self.get_path("values"))
+        # hack to deal with old BE comments:
+        if "From" in self.settings:
+            self.settings["Author"] = self.settings.pop("From")
         self._setup_saved_settings()
 
     def save_settings(self):