cli/request: support yaml format for --parameters-file option

setup.py

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ setup(name=name,
           'cachecontrol',
           'lockfile',
           'jsonschema',
+          'pyaml',
           'uritemplate', # used by hateoas navigator
           'subprocess32; python_version<"3"',
           'ipaddress; python_version<"3"',  # used by whitelistfirewall

slapos/cli/request.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import os.path
 import pprint
 
 import lxml.etree
+import yaml
 
 from slapos.cli.config import ClientConfigCommand
 from slapos.client import (ClientConfig, _getSoftwareReleaseFromSoftwareString,
@@ -49,7 +50,9 @@ except ImportError:
 def getParametersFromFile(file, serialisation):
     # type: (IO[str], SoftwareReleaseSerialisation) -> Dict
     extension = os.path.splitext(file.name)[1]
-    if extension == '.xml':
+    if extension in ('.yaml', '.yml'):
+        params = yaml.safe_load(file)
+    elif extension == '.xml':
         tree = lxml.etree.parse(file)
         params = {e.attrib['id']: e.text for e in tree.findall('/parameter')}
         # because the use case of xml files is to copy paste existing XML parameters

slapos/tests/test_cli.py

@@ -739,6 +739,19 @@ class TestCliRequestParametersFileJson(CliMixin):
     )
 
 
+class TestCliRequestParametersFileYaml(TestCliRequestParametersFileJson):
+  def _makeParameterFile(self):
+    f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.yaml', mode='w', delete=False)
+    f.write(textwrap.dedent('''\
+    {
+      "foo": ["bar"]
+    }
+    '''))
+    f.flush()
+    self.addCleanup(os.unlink, f.name)
+    return f.name
+
+
 class TestCliRequestParametersFileXml(TestCliRequestParametersFileJson):
   expected_partition_parameter_kw = {'foo': 'bar'}
   def _makeParameterFile(self):