🐛 Handle Boolean Arg Parsing in Compiler

[MFA-X-AI]

Description

The current way the compiler handles boolean arguments looks like this:

parser.add_argument('--testArgs', type=bool)

Unfortunately, this means that regardless of what is passed to --testArgs, whether it's False or 0, it's first converted to a string and then passed to the bool() function, hence always evaluating to True.

This PR adds parse_bool to base.py to handle this issue. The new implementation looks like this:

parser.add_argument('--testArgs', type=parse_bool, default=None, nargs='?', const=True)

What this does:

• It will return False if provided with 'false', 'f', 'no', 'n', or '0' (not case-sensitive).
• If the argument is not provided at all, it will be None.
• If the flag is provided without a value (like just --testArgs), it will be True.

Pull Request Type

• Xircuits Core (Jupyterlab Related changes)
• Xircuits Canvas (Custom RD Related changes)
• Xircuits Component Library
• Xircuits Project Template
• Testing Automation
• Documentation
• Others (Please Specify)

Type of Change

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

Tests

Create a workflow that accepts a boolean argument and prints it, eg

Test that:

• It will return False if provided with 'false', 'f', 'no', 'n', or '0' (not case-sensitive).
• If the argument is not provided at all, it will be None.
• If the flag is provided without a value (like just --testArgs), it will be True.

Test for both CLI and in Xircuits execute runner interface.

Tested on?

• Windows
• Linux Ubuntu
• Centos
• Mac
• Others (State here -> xxx )

[github-actions]

👈 Launch a binder notebook on branch XpressAI/xircuits/fahreza-fix-args-bool