fix dl input directory path

src/wpextract/cli/_dl.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from wpextract.cli._shared import _register_shared
 from wpextract.dl.downloader import WPDownloader
 from wpextract.dl.requestsession import RequestSession
-from wpextract.util.args import directory
+from wpextract.util.args import empty_directory
 
 dl_types = ["categories", "media", "pages", "posts", "tags", "users"]
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def register_dl_parser(subparsers):
     )
     parser_dl.add_argument(
         "out_json",
-        type=directory,
+        type=empty_directory,
         help="the path of the output JSON file",
     )
     parser_dl.add_argument(

src/wpextract/extractors/io.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import dataclasses
 import json
+import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, List, Optional
 
@@ -10,15 +11,18 @@
 from pandas import Timestamp as PdTimestamp
 
 
-def load_from_path(path: Path) -> dict:
+def load_from_path(path: Path) -> Optional[dict]:
     """Loads and parses a JSON file.
 
     Args:
         path: The path to load
 
     Returns:
-        The decoded JSON object.
+        The decoded JSON object. None if the file does not exist.
     """
+    if not path.is_file():
+        return None
+
     with open(path, "r") as f:
         return json.load(f)
 
@@ -34,11 +38,16 @@ def load_df(path: Path, index_col: str = "id") -> Optional[pd.DataFrame]:
         index_col: The key from the JSON to use as the index
 
     Returns:
-        A dataframe with the flattened JSON.
+        A dataframe with the flattened JSON. None if the file does not exist or is an empty array.
     """
     data_raw = load_from_path(path)
 
+    if data_raw is None:
+        logging.info(f"File {path} does not exist, skipping this data type.")
+        return None
+
     if len(data_raw) == 0:
+        logging.info(f"File {path} has no data, skipping this data type.")
         return None
 
     return pd.json_normalize(data_raw).set_index(index_col)

src/wpextract/util/args.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def empty_directory(arg: str) -> Path:
     path = Path(arg)
 
     if path.exists() and not path.is_dir():
-        raise ArgumentTypeError("is not a directory, must be an empty directory")
+        raise ArgumentTypeError("exists but is not a directory")
 
     try:
         path.mkdir(exist_ok=True)

tests/extractors/test_io.py

@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ def test_load_from_path(datadir):
     assert loaded[0]["entry"] == "one"
 
 
+def test_load_from_path_doesnt_exist(datadir):
+    loaded = load_from_path(datadir / "notreal.json")
+
+    assert loaded is None
+
+
 def test_load_df(datadir):
     df = load_df(datadir / "example.json")