commit 9c8c77502ff52907a327e6bdc9ac282da0af6b44
author ccalvarin <ccalvarin@google.com> Tue Apr 17 07:48:38 2018 -0700
committer Copybara-Service <copybara-piper@google.com> Tue Apr 17 07:50:36 2018 -0700
tree 14b05cdc2eb7db3231a05c6a119d0c6aba876495
parent a4ca5e77ea1cd2ee86632af168f107ea7be9e980

Make attempting to change --config in invocation policy an error.

It will not work as expected, since config is already expanded by this point in options processing.

RELNOTES: None.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 193196664

src/main/java/com/google/devtools/common/options/InvocationPolicyEnforcer.java

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/common/options/InvocationPolicyEnforcer.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/common/options/InvocationPolicyEnforcer.java
index 88deb46..3b42a29 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/common/options/InvocationPolicyEnforcer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/common/options/InvocationPolicyEnforcer.java
@@ -248,6 +248,15 @@
     OptionPriority nextPriority =
         OptionPriority.lowestOptionPriorityAtCategory(PriorityCategory.INVOCATION_POLICY);
     for (FlagPolicy policy : invocationPolicy.getFlagPoliciesList()) {
+      // Explicitly disallow --config in invocation policy.
+      if (policy.getFlagName().equals("config")) {
+        throw new OptionsParsingException(
+            "Invocation policy is applied after --config expansion, changing config values now "
+                + "would have no effect and is disallowed to prevent confusion. Please remove the "
+                + "following policy : "
+                + policy);
+      }
+
       // These policies are high-level, before expansion, and so are not the implicitDependents or
       // expansions of any other flag, other than in an obtuse sense from --invocation_policy.
       OptionPriority currentPriority = nextPriority;