Adds --halt flag to trigger HALT_ON_ERROR behavior. Closes #10

cdl_convert/cdl_convert.py

@@ -2264,6 +2264,16 @@ def parse_args():
              "accepted. Defaults to a .cc XML. Supported output formats are: "  # pylint: disable=C0330
              "{outputs}".format(outputs=str(OUTPUT_FORMATS.keys()))  # pylint: disable=C0330
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--halt",
+        action='store_true',
+        help="turns off exception handling default behavior. Turn this on if "
+             "you want the conversion process to fail and not continue,"
+             "rather than relying on default behavior for bad values. Examples "
+             "are clipping negative values to 0.0 for Slope, Power and "
+             "Saturation, and automatically generating a new id for a "
+             "ColorCorrect if no or a bad id is given."
+    )
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
@@ -2299,6 +2309,10 @@ def parse_args():
     else:
         args.output = ['cc', ]
 
+    if args.halt:
+        global HALT_ON_ERROR
+        HALT_ON_ERROR = True
+
     return args
 
 # ==============================================================================

tests/test_cdl_convert.py

@@ -326,6 +326,24 @@ def testNoProvidedOutput(self):
             args.output
         )
 
+    #==========================================================================
+
+    def testHaltOnError(self):
+        """Tests that providing the --halt flag triggers HALT_ON_ERROR"""
+        self.assertFalse(
+            cdl_convert.HALT_ON_ERROR
+        )
+
+        sys.argv = ['scriptname', 'inputFile', '--halt']
+
+        cdl_convert.parse_args()
+
+        self.assertTrue(
+            cdl_convert.HALT_ON_ERROR
+        )
+
+        cdl_convert.HALT_ON_ERROR = False
+
 # main() ======================================================================