templater: abort when a template filter raises an exception (issue2987)

mercurial/templater.py

@@ -146,7 +146,15 b' def buildfilter(exp, context):'
 
 def runfilter(context, mapping, data):
     func, data, filt = data
+    try:
     return filt(func(context, mapping, data))
+    except (ValueError, AttributeError, TypeError):
+        if isinstance(data, tuple):
+            dt = data[1]
+        else:
+            dt = data
+        raise util.Abort(_("template filter '%s' is not compatible with "
+                           "keyword '%s'") % (filt.func_name, dt))
 
 def buildmap(exp, context):
     func, data = compileexp(exp[1], context)

tests/test-command-template.t

@@ -1255,6 +1255,30 b' Error on syntax:'
   abort: t:3: unmatched quotes
   [255]
 
+Behind the scenes, this will throw TypeError
+
+  $ hg log -l 3 --template '{date|obfuscate}\n'
+  abort: Template filter 'obfuscate' is not compatible with keyword 'date'
+  [255]
+
+Behind the scenes, this will throw a ValueError
+
+  $ hg log -l 3 --template 'line: {desc|shortdate}\n'
+  abort: Template filter 'shortdate' is not compatible with keyword 'desc'
+  [255]
+
+Behind the scenes, this will throw AttributeError
+
+  $ hg log -l 3 --template 'line: {date|escape}\n'
+  abort: Template filter 'escape' is not compatible with keyword 'date'
+  [255]
+
+Behind the scenes, this will throw ValueError
+
+  $ hg tip --template '{author|email|date}\n'
+  abort: Template filter 'datefilter' is not compatible with keyword 'author'
+  [255]
+
   $ cd ..