eb --confighelp contains wrong options in [job] section

[moschlar]

When I uncomment the option job-backend-config in the [job] section, I only get the following error message:

ERROR: Failed to parse configuration options: parseconfigfiles: no option corresponding with opt job-backend-config dest job_job_backend_config in section job

It seems that the section title automatically gets prepended to the option name, so when I strip the job- prefix from the option name, it works as expected.

[boegel]

Thanks for the bug report. This looks like a option with the option parser used by EasyBuild.

cc @stdweird this looks like a bug in generaloption?

[boegel]

requires that hpcugent/vsc-base#211 is fixed

[Flamefire]

I dug a bit and found a couple of design issues here. The major one blocking this is the following:

• EasyBuildOptions (class GeneralOption) contains OptionGroups and a parser
• The prefix is incorporated into the Option added to the OptionGroup, which the parser uses
• Parsing the config file(s) is done by GeneralOption with something I'd call a "hack" to provide support for prefixes which then yields full options that are then passed to the cmdline parser
• The confighelp is implemented at the parser level (in the parser)

So in summary: The parser which does not know anything about config files is responsible for generating the config file.
The parser doesn't even know, how to construct a prefixed option, even less how to decompose one.

--> I'd suggest some reengineering to put the --confighelp into the GeneralOption and maybe also some refactoring how those are handled. There are some places, where dicts would be much more useful, and another where a NamedTuple would be due (see PROCESSED_OPTIONS_PROPERTIES)

And maybe GeneralOption could be renamed too, I found it confusing while checking the code because it is not "1 option" but a container and handler of all options, parsers, config files etc.