Config scopes are now returning OrderedDicts instead of dicts. (#5183)

It seems 8f21332fec introduced a bug
in that normal dictionaries are returned from ConfigScope objects
instead of OrderedDicts. This is fixed here.

lib/spack/spack/config.py

@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ class ConfigScope(object):
     def __init__(self, name, path):
         self.name = name           # scope name.
         self.path = path           # path to directory containing configs.
-        self.sections = {}         # sections read from config files.
+        self.sections = syaml.syaml_dict()  # sections read from config files.
 
         # Register in a dict of all ConfigScopes
         # TODO: make this cleaner.  Mocking up for testing is brittle.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ def write_section(self, section):
 
     def clear(self):
         """Empty cached config information."""
-        self.sections = {}
+        self.sections = syaml.syaml_dict()
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return '<ConfigScope: %s: %s>' % (self.name, self.path)
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ def _mark_overrides(data):
         return [_mark_overrides(elt) for elt in data]
 
     elif isinstance(data, dict):
-        marked = {}
+        marked = syaml.syaml_dict()
         for key, val in iteritems(data):
             if isinstance(key, string_types) and key.endswith(':'):
                 key = syaml.syaml_str(key[:-1])

lib/spack/spack/test/config.py

@@ -369,3 +369,31 @@ def test_read_config_override_list(self, write_config_file):
             'install_tree': 'install_tree_path',
             'build_stage': ['patha', 'pathb']
         }
+
+
+def test_keys_are_ordered():
+
+    expected_order = (
+        'bin',
+        'man',
+        'share/man',
+        'share/aclocal',
+        'lib',
+        'lib64',
+        'include',
+        'lib/pkgconfig',
+        'lib64/pkgconfig',
+        ''
+    )
+
+    config_scope = spack.config.ConfigScope(
+        'modules',
+        os.path.join(spack.test_path, 'data', 'config')
+    )
+
+    data = config_scope.get_section('modules')
+
+    prefix_inspections = data['modules']['prefix_inspections']
+
+    for actual, expected in zip(prefix_inspections, expected_order):
+        assert actual == expected

lib/spack/spack/test/data/config/modules.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# This is the default configuration for Spack's module file generation.
+#
+# Settings here are versioned with Spack and are intended to provide
+# sensible defaults out of the box. Spack maintainers should edit this
+# file to keep it current.
+#
+# Users can override these settings by editing the following files.
+#
+# Per-spack-instance settings (overrides defaults):
+#   $SPACK_ROOT/etc/spack/modules.yaml
+#
+# Per-user settings (overrides default and site settings):
+#   ~/.spack/modules.yaml
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+modules:
+  enable:
+    - tcl
+    - dotkit
+  prefix_inspections:
+    bin:
+      - PATH
+    man:
+      - MANPATH
+    share/man:
+      - MANPATH
+    share/aclocal:
+      - ACLOCAL_PATH
+    lib:
+      - LIBRARY_PATH
+      - LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+    lib64:
+      - LIBRARY_PATH
+      - LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+    include:
+      - CPATH
+    lib/pkgconfig:
+      - PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+    lib64/pkgconfig:
+      - PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+    '':
+      - CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH