WIP for fill_xlsx: More graceful handling of incomplete data.

src/caosadvancedtools/table_json_conversion/fill_xlsx.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import pathlib
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, TextIO, Union
+from warnings import warn
 
 from jsonschema import FormatChecker, validate
 from jsonschema.exceptions import ValidationError
@@ -134,8 +135,9 @@ def _read_or_dict(data: Union[dict, str, TextIO]) -> dict:
 class TemplateFiller:
     """Class to fill XLSX templates.  Has an index for all relevant columns."""
 
-    def __init__(self, workbook: Workbook):
+    def __init__(self, workbook: Workbook, graceful: bool = False):
         self._workbook = workbook
+        self._graceful = graceful
         self._create_index()
 
     @property
@@ -305,6 +307,7 @@ out: union[dict, None]
 
             # collecting the data
             assert isinstance(content, list)
+            content = [str(x) for x in content]
             value = ";".join(content)  # TODO we need escaping of values
             path_str = p2s(path)
             assert path_str not in insertables
@@ -318,6 +321,9 @@ out: union[dict, None]
         insert_row = None
         sheet = None
         for path_str, value in insertables.items():
+            if self._graceful and path_str not in self._sheet_index:
+                warn(f"Ignoring path with missing sheet index: {path_str}")
+                continue
             sheet_meta = self._sheet_index[path_str]
             if sheet is None:
                 sheet = sheet_meta.sheet
@@ -359,7 +365,8 @@ result: str
   Path for the result XLSX.
 validation_schema: dict, optional
   If given, validate the date against this schema first.  This raises an exception if the validation
-  fails.
+  fails.  If no validation schema is given, try to ignore more errors in the data when filling the
+  XLSX template.
 """
     data = _read_or_dict(data)
     assert isinstance(data, dict)
@@ -377,7 +384,7 @@ validation_schema: dict, optional
 
     # Filling the data
     result_wb = load_workbook(template)
-    template_filler = TemplateFiller(result_wb)
+    template_filler = TemplateFiller(result_wb, graceful=(validation_schema is None))
     template_filler.fill_data(data=data)
 
     parentpath = pathlib.Path(result).parent