Since we'll depend on GitPython for repo cloning, we need to make sure to emit a user friendly error if the module is not installed. This patch introduces a helper which future patches will use as a decorator. Inspiration for this helper has been taken out of lcitool where we use an identical helper for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- ci/helper | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/ci/helper b/ci/helper index 60fdaed5f4..780f4161f5 100755 --- a/ci/helper +++ b/ci/helper @@ -14,6 +14,28 @@ import textwrap import util +def required_deps(*deps): + module2pkg = { + "git": "GitPython" + } + + def inner_decorator(func): + def wrapped(*args, **kwargs): + cmd = func.__name__[len('_action_'):] + for dep in deps: + try: + import importlib + importlib.import_module(dep) + except ImportError: + pkg = module2pkg[dep] + msg = f"'{pkg}' not found (required by the '{cmd}' command)" + print(msg, file=sys.stderr) + sys.exit(1) + func(*args, **kwargs) + return wrapped + return inner_decorator + + class Parser: def __init__(self): # Options that are common to all actions that use containers -- 2.41.0