Support passing --db-file and --backend to nikola auto (#3520)

getnikola · Mar 6, 2021 · bffa847 · bffa847
2 parents ad8716d + 31477bd
commit bffa847
Show file tree

Hide file tree

Showing 2 changed files with 25 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Features
 Bugfixes
 --------
 
+* Support passing ``--backend`` and ``--db-file`` to ``nikola auto``
 * Typogrify ignores ``div`` elements with ``.math`` CSS class.
   (Issue #3512)
 

diff --git a/nikola/plugins/command/auto/__init__.py b/nikola/plugins/command/auto/__init__.py
@@ -123,16 +123,34 @@ class CommandAuto(Command):
             'long': 'process',
             'default': 0,
             'type': int,
-            'help': 'Number of subprocesses (nikola build argument)'
+            'help': 'Number of subprocesses',
+            'section': 'Arguments passed to `nikola build`'
         },
         {
             'name': 'parallel-type',
             'short': 'P',
             'long': 'parallel-type',
             'default': 'process',
             'type': str,
-            'help': "Parallelization mode ('process' or 'thread', nikola build argument)"
+            'help': "Parallelization mode ('process' or 'thread')",
+            'section': 'Arguments passed to `nikola build`'
         },
+        {
+            'name': 'db-file',
+            'long': 'db-file',
+            'default': '.doit.db',
+            'type': str,
+            'help': 'Database file',
+            'section': 'Arguments passed to `nikola build`'
+        },
+        {
+            'name': 'backend',
+            'long': 'backend',
+            'default': 'dbm',
+            'type': str,
+            'help': "Database backend ('dbm', 'json', 'sqlite3')",
+            'section': 'Arguments passed to `nikola build`'
+        }
     ]
 
     def _execute(self, options, args):
@@ -164,6 +182,10 @@ def _execute(self, options, args):
             self.nikola_cmd += ['--process={}'.format(options['process']),
                                 '--parallel-type={}'.format(options['parallel-type'])]
 
+        if options:
+            self.nikola_cmd += ['--db-file={}'.format(options['db-file']),
+                                '--backend={}'.format(options['backend'])]
+
         port = options and options.get('port')
         self.snippet = '''<script>document.write('<script src="http://'
             + (location.host || 'localhost').split(':')[0]