# HG changeset patch
# User Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>
# Date 2018-03-23 12:03:21
# Node ID 0023da2910c99ca52b933670c5ac2c3ba8fa05db
# Parent  53e6b7e05553c6bed2f7beeca2f28f27a5a3f28c

templater: extract type conversion from evalfuncarg()

Needed by the subsequent patches.

diff --git a/mercurial/templateutil.py b/mercurial/templateutil.py
--- a/mercurial/templateutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/templateutil.py
@@ -287,7 +287,12 @@ def evalrawexp(context, mapping, arg):
 
 def evalfuncarg(context, mapping, arg):
     """Evaluate given argument as value type"""
-    thing = evalrawexp(context, mapping, arg)
+    return _unwrapvalue(evalrawexp(context, mapping, arg))
+
+# TODO: unify this with unwrapvalue() once the bug of templatefunc.join()
+# is fixed. we can't do that right now because join() has to take a generator
+# of byte strings as it is, not a lazy byte string.
+def _unwrapvalue(thing):
     thing = unwrapvalue(thing)
     # evalrawexp() may return string, generator of strings or arbitrary object
     # such as date tuple, but filter does not want generator.