Add string and TOML-dict configuration of this param

cibuildwheel/oci_container.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from typing import IO, Dict
 
 from ._compat.typing import Literal
 from .typing import PathOrStr, PopenBytes
-from .util import CIProvider, detect_ci_provider
+from .util import CIProvider, detect_ci_provider, parse_key_value_string
 
 ContainerEngineName = Literal["docker", "podman"]
 
@@ -28,6 +28,25 @@ class OCIContainerEngineConfig:
     name: ContainerEngineName
     create_args: Sequence[str] = ()
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def from_config_string(config_string: str) -> OCIContainerEngineConfig:
+        config_dict = parse_key_value_string(config_string, ["name"])
+        name = " ".join(config_dict["name"])
+        if name not in ["docker", "podman"]:
+            msg = f"unknown container engine {name}"
+            raise ValueError(msg)
+
+        name = typing.cast(ContainerEngineName, name)
+        # some flexibility in the option name to cope with TOML conventions
+        create_args = config_dict.get("create_args") or config_dict.get("create-args") or []
+        return OCIContainerEngineConfig(name=name, create_args=create_args)
+
+    def options_summary(self) -> str | dict[str, str]:
+        if not self.create_args:
+            return self.name
+        else:
+            return {"name": self.name, "create_args": repr(self.create_args)}
+
 
 DEFAULT_ENGINE = OCIContainerEngineConfig("docker")
 

cibuildwheel/options.py

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import shlex
 import sys
 import textwrap
 import traceback
-import typing
 from collections.abc import Callable, Generator, Iterable, Iterator, Mapping, Set
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Union
@@ -136,8 +135,14 @@ DISALLOWED_OPTIONS = {
 
 
 class TableFmt(TypedDict):
+    # a format string, used with '.format', with `k` and `v` parameters
+    # e.g. "{k}={v}"
     item: str
+    # the string that is inserted between items
+    # e.g. " "
     sep: str
+    # a quoting function that, if supplied, is called to quote each value
+    # e.g. shlex.quote
     quote: NotRequired[Callable[[str], str]]
 
 
@@ -454,15 +459,17 @@ class Options:
         )
         test_selector = TestSelector(skip_config=test_skip)
 
-        container_engine_str = self.reader.get("container-engine")
+        container_engine_str = self.reader.get(
+            "container-engine", table={"item": "{k}:{v}", "sep": "; ", "quote": shlex.quote}
+        )
 
-        if container_engine_str not in ["docker", "podman"]:
-            msg = f"cibuildwheel: Unrecognised container_engine {container_engine_str!r}, only 'docker' and 'podman' are supported"
+        try:
+            container_engine = OCIContainerEngineConfig.from_config_string(container_engine_str)
+        except ValueError as e:
+            msg = f"cibuildwheel: Failed to parse container config. {e}"
             print(msg, file=sys.stderr)
             sys.exit(2)
 
-        container_engine = typing.cast(ContainerEngine, container_engine_str)
-
         return GlobalOptions(
             package_dir=package_dir,
             output_dir=output_dir,

cibuildwheel/util.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import textwrap
 import time
 import typing
 import urllib.request
+from collections import defaultdict
 from collections.abc import Generator, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from enum import Enum
@@ -697,3 +698,41 @@ def fix_ansi_codes_for_github_actions(text: str) -> str:
                     ansi_codes.append(code)
 
     return output
+
+
+def parse_key_value_string(
+    key_value_string: str, positional_arg_names: list[str] | None = None
+) -> dict[str, list[str]]:
+    """
+    Parses a string like "docker; create_args: --some-option=value another-option"
+    """
+    if positional_arg_names is None:
+        positional_arg_names = []
+
+    shlexer = shlex.shlex(key_value_string, posix=True, punctuation_chars=";:")
+    shlexer.commenters = ""
+    shlexer.whitespace_split = True
+    parts = list(shlexer)
+    # parts now looks like
+    # ['docker', ';', 'create_args',':', '--some-option=value', 'another-option']
+
+    # split by semicolon
+    fields = [list(group) for k, group in itertools.groupby(parts, lambda x: x == ";") if not k]
+
+    result: dict[str, list[str]] = defaultdict(list)
+    for field_i, field in enumerate(fields):
+        if len(field) > 1 and field[1] == ":":
+            field_name = field[0]
+            values = field[2:]
+        else:
+            try:
+                field_name = positional_arg_names[field_i]
+            except IndexError:
+                msg = f"Failed to parse {key_value_string!r}. Too many positional arguments - expected a maximum of {len(positional_arg_names)}"
+                raise ValueError(msg) from None
+
+            values = field
+
+        result[field_name] += values
+
+    return result