Add: single-year flag to command pontos-update-header

To enable using only creation year for header license.

pontos/updateheader/_parser.py

@@ -109,4 +109,15 @@ def parse_args(args: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None) -> Namespace:
         help="Do a cleanup: Remove lines from outdated header format",
     )
 
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--single-year",
+        action="store_true",
+        default=False,
+        help=(
+            "If set, will not update license with from-to years format "
+            "(YYYY-YYYY) if it has single (only creation) year format (YYYY). "
+            "Default is %(default)s."
+        ),
+    )
+
     return parser.parse_args(args)

pontos/updateheader/updateheader.py

@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ def update_file(
     company: str,
     *,
     cleanup: bool = False,
+    single_year: bool = False,
 ) -> None:
     """Function to update the header of the given file
 
@@ -211,6 +212,10 @@ def update_file(
                 or copyright_match.modification_year
                 and copyright_match.modification_year < year
             ):
+                if single_year:
+                    # In case of single year updating the license with modification date doesn't make sense.
+                    # Changing the existing license header with created-modified years to single year is not supported.
+                    return
                 copyright_term = (
                     f"SPDX-FileCopyrightText: "
                     f"{copyright_match.creation_year}"
@@ -312,6 +317,7 @@ def main(args: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None) -> None:
     changed: bool = parsed_args.changed
     quiet: bool = parsed_args.quiet
     cleanup: bool = parsed_args.cleanup
+    single_year: bool = parsed_args.single_year
 
     if quiet:
         term: Union[NullTerminal, RichTerminal] = NullTerminal()
@@ -368,6 +374,7 @@ def main(args: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None) -> None:
                     license_id,
                     company,
                     cleanup=cleanup,
+                    single_year=single_year,
                 )
         except (FileNotFoundError, UnicodeDecodeError, ValueError):
             continue

tests/updateheader/test_header.py

@@ -291,6 +291,32 @@ def test_update_create_header(self, mock_stdout):
                 expected_header, test_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
             )
 
+    @patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=StringIO)
+    def test_update_create_header_single_year(self, mock_stdout):
+        year = "1995"
+        license_id = "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
+
+        expected_header = HEADER.format(date="1995") + "\n\n"
+
+        with temp_file(name="test.py", change_into=True) as test_file:
+            update_file(
+                test_file,
+                year,
+                license_id,
+                self.company,
+                single_year=True
+            )
+
+            ret = mock_stdout.getvalue()
+            self.assertEqual(
+                f"{test_file}: Added license header.\n",
+                ret,
+            )
+            self.assertEqual(
+                expected_header, test_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+            )
+
+
     @patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=StringIO)
     def test_update_header_in_file(self, mock_stdout):
         year = "2021"
@@ -318,6 +344,29 @@ def test_update_header_in_file(self, mock_stdout):
                 test_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
             )
 
+    @patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=StringIO)
+    def test_update_header_in_file_single_year(self, mock_stdout):
+        year = "2021"
+        license_id = "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
+
+        header = HEADER.format(date="2020")
+        with temp_file(
+            content=header, name="test.py", change_into=True
+        ) as test_file:
+            update_file(
+                test_file,
+                year,
+                license_id,
+                self.company,
+                single_year=True,
+            )
+
+            ret = mock_stdout.getvalue()
+            self.assertIn(
+                "# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG",
+                test_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
+            )
+
     @patch("sys.stdout", new_callable=StringIO)
     def test_update_header_ok_in_file(self, mock_stdout):
         year = "2021"
@@ -510,6 +559,7 @@ def test_defaults(self):
         self.assertEqual(args.files, ["foo.txt"])
         self.assertIsNone(args.directories)
         self.assertIsNone(args.exclude_file)
+        self.assertFalse(args.single_year)
         self.assertFalse(args.cleanup)
 
     def test_files_and_directories_mutual_exclusive(self):
@@ -569,6 +619,7 @@ def test_main_never_happen(self, argparser_mock, mock_stdout):
         self.args.log_file = None
         self.args.quiet = False
         self.args.cleanup = False
+        self.args.single_year = False
 
         argparser_mock.return_value = self.args