Parse error when option is empty

[jalin107]

[dmke]

I'm sorry, I don't speak nor read chinese. Google translates your issue into:

When the option item is empty, a parse err error will occur and the desired object cannot be parsed

Is that translation correct? If so, what do you mean by "when the option item is emtpy"?

[jalin107]

yes.

[dmke]

I have identified this behaviour on my OpenWRT router:

# cat /etc/config/test
config section
	option empty1
	option empty2 ''
	list empty3
	list empty4 ''

# uci export test
package test

config section
	list empty3 ''
	list empty4 ''

It was easy to extend the lexer to recognize the empty/missing values properly (I personally would consider an option without value invalid.)

To fix the parser, I'll need some more time (but I don't know when that will be). Feel free to extend on e84480d if you don't want to wait :-)

[SmartBoy84]

3 years later; any update?

[dmke]

Nope, still very low on my priorities.

Feel free to submit a patch though, I'll happily merge it.

[jjm2473]

Any progress? This library cannot parse aria2 default config.

[dmke]

No, sorry. At the moment (and for the foreseeable future), we have close to zero maintenance capacity for this. Our use-cases are covered, so active development is de-facto halted.