hard-code true/false as booleans

src/selectors.rs

@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ impl SelectorConfig {
         );
 
         for (key, v) in self.variant {
-            context.insert(key, Value::from_safe_string(v));
+            match v.to_lowercase().as_str() {
+                "true" => context.insert(key.clone(), Value::from(true)),
+                "false" => context.insert(key.clone(), Value::from(false)),
+                _ => context.insert(key, Value::from_safe_string(v)),
+            };
         }
 
         context

test-data/recipes/if_else/recipe.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package:
+  name: if_else_test
+  version: '0.1.0'
+
+build:
+  noarch: python
+  number: 0
+
+requirements:
+  host:
+    - if: new_pydantic
+      then:
+        - pydantic >=2
+      else:
+        - pydantic >=1,<2
+    # test inline if else
+    - ${{ 'test' if new_pydantic }}
+    - ${{ 'notest' if not new_pydantic }}

test-data/recipes/if_else/variant.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+new_pydantic:
+  - true
+  - false

test/end-to-end/test_simple.py

@@ -712,3 +712,22 @@ def test_read_only_removal(rattler_build: RattlerBuild, recipes: Path, tmp_path:
     pkg = get_extracted_package(tmp_path, "read-only-build-files")
 
     assert (pkg / "info/index.json").exists()
+
+def test_pydantic_true_false(rattler_build: RattlerBuild, recipes: Path, tmp_path: Path):
+    path_to_recipe = recipes / "if_else"
+    args = rattler_build.build_args(
+        path_to_recipe,
+        tmp_path,
+    )
+
+    output = rattler_build(*args, "--variant-config", recipes / "if_else/variant.yaml", "--render-only")
+    print(output)
+    # parse json
+    render = json.loads(output)
+
+    assert len(render) == 2
+    assert render[0]["recipe"]["package"]["name"] == "if_else_test"
+    assert render[0]["recipe"]["requirements"]["host"] == ['pydantic >=2', 'test']
+
+    assert render[1]["recipe"]["package"]["name"] == "if_else_test"
+    assert render[1]["recipe"]["requirements"]["host"] == ['pydantic >=1,<2', 'notest']