storageutil: move metadata parsing and packing from revlog (API)
Parsing and writing of revision text metadata is likely identical
across storage backends. Let's move the code out of revlog so we
don't need to import the revlog module in order to use it.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4754
"""
Commonly useful converters.
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
def optional(converter):
"""
A converter that allows an attribute to be optional. An optional attribute
is one which can be set to ``None``.
:param callable converter: the converter that is used for non-``None``
values.
.. versionadded:: 17.1.0
"""
def optional_converter(val):
if val is None:
return None
return converter(val)
return optional_converter