Dynamic functions for `layout` directive broken

[choeppler]

After upgrading sphinx-needs from v 4.2.0 to v 5.1.0 in my documentation project, I'm facing the following issue with the use of a dynamic function for the layout directive:

Regardless of whether layout is set via needs_global_options

needs_global_options = {
    "layout" : {
        "default": "[[get_layout()]]",
    },
}

or within a needs block

.. req:: test
   :id: df_1
   :status: open
   :layout: [[get_layout()]]

running either of these with Sphinx v8.2.3 with sphinx-needs v5.1.0 results in the following exception

sphinx_needs.layout.SphinxNeedLayoutException: Given layout "[[get_layout()]]" is unknown for need test.

Note, as a sanity check, I confirmed that the function works as expected for the tags directive:

.. req:: test
   :id: df_1
   :status: open
   :tags: [[get_layout()]]

which results in tags displaying the layout that is returned when get_layout is run for a req-need block.

Since this used to work with version 4.2.0 and according to the docs, dynamic functions are supported for layout, I suspect this may be a regression. Or this an error on my end? I'd be grateful for any pointers on how to fix this.

[Rubyfi]

You can probably do this with predicates:

needs_global_options = {
   "layout": {
      "predicates": [
         ("type== 'type123'", "layout123"),
      ]
      "default": "clean",
   }
}

[choeppler]

You can probably do this with predicates:

Yes, indeed, for my current case, converting the get_layout-function to a set of predicates is feasible and I just checked that this works as advertised :smile:

Thank you for the suggestion!