nmbug-status: print config errors to stderr

[notmuch] / devel / nmbug / nmbug-status
diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status

index e845c2a5c8f702cc5d988fa6ea16ba3b0e53e828..b36b6ad33859d7f8ba4b59381c7d147385878a9d 100755 (executable)
--- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
+++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
@@ -156,11 +156,20 @@ class Page (object):
              stream.write(self.footer)
  
      def _write_view(self, database, view, stream):
+        # sort order, default to oldest-first
+        sort_key = view.get('sort', 'oldest-first')
+        # dynamically accept all values in Query.SORT
+        sort_attribute = sort_key.upper().replace('-', '_')
+        try:
+            sort = getattr(notmuch.Query.SORT, sort_attribute)
+        except AttributeError:
+            raise ConfigError('Invalid sort setting for {}: {!r}'.format(
+                view['title'], sort_key))
          if 'query-string' not in view:
              query = view['query']
              view['query-string'] = ' and '.join(query)
          q = notmuch.Query(database, view['query-string'])
-        q.set_sort(notmuch.Query.SORT.OLDEST_FIRST)
+        q.set_sort(sort)
          threads = self._get_threads(messages=q.search_messages())
          self._write_view_header(view=view, stream=stream)
          self._write_threads(threads=threads, stream=stream)
@@ -309,7 +318,7 @@ args = parser.parse_args()
  try:
      config = read_config(path=args.config)
  except ConfigError as e:
-    print(e)
+    print(e, file=sys.stderr)
      sys.exit(1)
  
  header_template = config['meta'].get('header', '''<!DOCTYPE html>