I ended up finding a Python function that recurses through any dict and
nested dict and does a try/except on the value to convert to string. I
modified that example code to use weeutil.weeutil.to_int(). and am running
my Highcharts Series data through that function. So far seems to be working
great!
I might also look at adding a weeutil.weeutil.to_bool() recursive check as
well to see if it helps with some other Python ConfigObj to JavaScript
issues I'm having. Thanks for the tips.
On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 10:59:54 AM UTC-4, Pat wrote:
>
> That was my concern that nothing was baked into ConfigObj. Thankfully most
> of the strings are accepted by Highcharts, but there's certain ones like
> marker:
> { enabled: false } needs to be false, not a string ("false").
> Substituting "false" for integer 0 works, but ConfigObj sets this to string
> "0". An option like marker, lineWidth, lineWidthPlus, and many more are
> optional non-coded user-controlled options and I don't have an easy way to
> intercept each one and to convert to integer. Simply because the generator
> accepts all highchart series configs without me needed to add more
> overhead.
>
> I may have to get fancy with JavaScript and loop through the series Object
> keys and convert any value to a number that can be converted.
>
>
> On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 10:55:34 AM UTC-4, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, no. Without the validator, everything ConfigObj returns is
>> a string.
>>
>> However, there are some useful utility functions in weeutil.weeutil:
>> to_int(), to_float(), and to_bool(), which take care of possible 'None'
>> values. They are sprinkled throughout WeeWX, wherever a conversion needs to
>> take place.
>>
>> -tk
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 7:46 AM Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Not really weewx-centric but since weewx uses configobj, I have a
>>> question that you may have come across before. In Belchertown skin 1.0 I've
>>> adopted the ImageGenerator to fork and build it out for the
>>> HighchartGenerator. The end result in my fork is the creation of a JSON
>>> file (instead of an image).
>>>
>>> Certain config items need to be integers but it seems that ConfigObj is
>>> forcing strings. I've tried the integer() option
>>> <https://configobj.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configobj.html#default-values>,
>>> but that seems related to the Validator
>>> <https://configobj.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configobj.html#validation>
>>> which I'm not using because I'd have a mile-long validation ini full of
>>> Highcharts defaults which I also don't want to manage.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to have ConfigObj force integer if the value is an
>>> integer?
>>>
>>>
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