Refactor argument formatting and add quote removal to enable quoted

commands to be parallelizable

Signed-off-by: kwakubiney <[email protected]>

Author: kwakubiney

compiler/annotations_utils/util_parsing.py

@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ def parse_arg_list_to_command_invocation(
     command, flags_options_operands
 ) -> CommandInvocationInitial:
     cmd_name = format_arg_chars(command)
-    #strip quotes from command where necessary
-    #quoted commands are interpreted as non-parallelizable
-    cmd_name = cmd_name.strip().strip('"').strip("'")
     json_data = get_json_data(cmd_name)
     set_of_all_flags: Set[str] = get_set_of_all_flags(json_data)
     dict_flag_to_primary_repr: dict[str, str] = get_dict_flag_to_primary_repr(json_data)

compiler/shell_ast/ast_util.py

@@ -44,15 +44,23 @@ def __init__(self, text):
 def check_if_ast_is_supported(construct, arguments, **kwargs):
     return
 
-
-def format_args(args):
-    formatted_args = [format_arg_chars(arg_chars) for arg_chars in args]
-    return formatted_args
-
-
 def format_arg_chars(arg_chars):
-    chars = [format_arg_char(arg_char) for arg_char in arg_chars]
-    return "".join(chars)
+    return traverse_and_format(arg_chars)
+
+def traverse_and_format(arg_char):
+    if isinstance(arg_char, list):
+        return "".join(traverse_and_format(c) for c in arg_char)
+    elif isinstance(arg_char, QArgChar):
+        return remove_quotes_from_quoted_content(arg_char.format())
+    elif isinstance(arg_char, (CArgChar, EArgChar)):
+        return format_arg_char(arg_char)
+    else:
+        # Fallback: not sure what the fallback for non recognized characters should be?
+        return format_arg_char(arg_char)
+
+def remove_quotes_from_quoted_content(arg_char):
+    formatted_content = traverse_and_format(arg_char)
+    return formatted_content.strip('"').strip("'")
 
 
 def format_arg_char(arg_char: ArgChar) -> str: