grc: Add no_quotes() convenience function (callable from templates)

Signed-off-by: Håkon Vågsether <hauk142@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 774d30d66afdab0c16d9239d84e5829187f791c4)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Long <willcode4@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/grc/core/blocks/_templates.py b/grc/core/blocks/_templates.py
index 5bfb15e9e..c57de4d40 100644
--- a/grc/core/blocks/_templates.py
+++ b/grc/core/blocks/_templates.py
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ from mako.exceptions import SyntaxException
 
 from ..errors import TemplateError
 
+# The utils dict contains convenience functions
+# that can be called from any template
+def no_quotes(string, fallback=None):
+    if len(string) > 2:
+        if str(string)[0] + str(string)[-1] in ("''", '""'):
+            return str(string)[1:-1]
+    return str(fallback if fallback else string)
+
+utils = {'no_quotes': no_quotes}
+
 
 class MakoTemplates(dict):
 
@@ -65,6 +75,7 @@ class MakoTemplates(dict):
         if not text:
             return ''
         namespace = self.instance.namespace_templates
+        namespace = {**namespace, **utils}
 
         try:
             if isinstance(text, list):