Enhancements to the tool shed api to enable the curretnly most important updates for repository_metadata records.

scripts/api/tool_shed_repository_revision_update.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+PUT/update script to update appropriate values in a repository_metadata table record in the Tool Shed.
+
+usage: tool_shed_repository_revision_update.py key url key1=value1 key2=value2 ... 
+"""
+
+import os, sys
+sys.path.insert( 0, os.path.dirname( __file__ ) )
+from common import update
+
+import pkg_resources
+pkg_resources.require( "simplejson" )
+
+import simplejson
+
+to_json_string = simplejson.dumps
+from_json_string = simplejson.loads
+
+data = {}
+for key, value in [ kwarg.split( '=', 1 ) for kwarg in sys.argv[ 3: ] ]:      
+    """
+    This example script will properly handle updating the value of one or more of the following RepositoryMetadata attributes:
+    tools_functionally_correct, do_not_test, tool_test_errors
+    """
+    if key in [ 'tools_functionally_correct', 'do_not_test' ]:
+        if str( value ).lower() in [ 'true', 'yes', 'on' ]:
+            new_value = True
+        else:
+            new_value = False
+    elif key in [ 'tool_test_errors' ]:
+        new_value = from_json_string( value )
+    else:
+        new_value = str( value )
+    data[ key ] = new_value
+
+update( sys.argv[ 1 ], sys.argv[ 2 ], data )