On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 02:07, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:06:52 +0000 Donald Hunter wrote: > > + def _from_string(self, string, display_hint, type): > > Any reason not to pass attr_spec instead of the members one by one? I thought it would be better to keep the low-level helpers decoupled from attr_spec and mostly just following existing helpers that only have the display_hint parameter. > > + if display_hint in ['ipv4', 'ipv6']: > > + ip = ipaddress.ip_address(string) > > + if type == 'binary': > > + raw = ip.packed > > + else: > > + raw = int(ip) > > + else: > > I wonder if we should raise in this case? > Especially if type is binary passing the string back will just blow up > later, right? We could instead rise with a nice clear error message > here. It's actually a bit misleading that the attr is called 'string' because it could be a binary input if it was supplied from python code, i.e. not parsed from JSON on the command-line. But you highlight the bigger point that our input validation is quite weak and will need to be improved. In this case it would be desirable to defensively check if the input is already binary before checking for a display-hint. Then for input that can't be handled, we can raise an error message.
