Detect informat based on file extension

bin/weave.jl

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ ap = ArgParseSettings("Weave Julia documents using Weave.jl",
         help = "output format"
     "--informat"
         arg_type = String
-        default = "noweb"
+        default = ":auto"
         help = "output format"
     "--out_path"
         arg_type = String
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ delete!(args, "source")
 args_col = []
 
 #Check for special values of out_path
+
+if args["informat"] == ":auto"
+    args["informat"] = :auto
+end
+
 if args["out_path"] == ":doc"
     args["out_path"] = :doc
 elseif args["out_path"] == ":pwd"

src/Weave.jl

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Tangle source code from input document to .jl file.
 * `out_path`: Path where the output is generated. Can be: `:doc`: Path of the source document, `:pwd`: Julia working directory,
 `"somepath"`: Path as a AbstractString e.g `"/home/mpastell/weaveout"`
 """
-function tangle(source ; out_path=:doc, informat="noweb")
+function tangle(source ; out_path=:doc, informat=:auto)
     doc = read_doc(source, informat)
     cwd = get_cwd(doc, out_path)
 
@@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ Weave an input document to output file.
 **Note:** Run Weave from terminal and not using IJulia, Juno or ESS, they tend to mess with capturing output.
 """
 function weave(source ; doctype = "pandoc", plotlib="Gadfly",
-        informat="noweb", out_path=:doc, fig_path = "figures", fig_ext = nothing,
+        informat=:auto, out_path=:doc, fig_path = "figures", fig_ext = nothing,
         cache_path = "cache", cache=:off)
 
     doc = read_doc(source, informat)
     doc = run(doc, doctype = doctype, plotlib=plotlib,
-            informat = informat, out_path=out_path,
+            out_path=out_path,
             fig_path = fig_path, fig_ext = fig_ext, cache_path = cache_path, cache=cache)
     formatted = format(doc)
 

src/readers.jl

@@ -25,9 +25,20 @@ const input_formats = Dict{AbstractString, Any}(
           r"(^#\+)|(^#%%\+)|(^# %%\+)")
         )
 
+"""Detect the input format based on file extension"""
+function detect_informat(source::AbstractString)
+  ext = lowercase(splitext(source)[2])
+
+  ext == ".jl" && return "script"
+  ext == ".jmd" && return "markdown"
+  return "noweb"
+end
+
+
 
 """Read and parse input document"""
-function read_doc(source::AbstractString, format="noweb"::AbstractString)
+function read_doc(source::AbstractString, format=:auto)
+    format == :auto && (format = detect_informat(source))
     document = @compat readstring(source)
     parsed = parse_doc(document, format)
     doc = WeaveDoc(source, parsed)

src/run.jl

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Run code chunks and capture output from parsed document.
 
 **Note:** Run command from terminal and not using IJulia, Juno or ESS, they tend to mess with capturing output.
 """
-function Base.run(doc::WeaveDoc; doctype = "pandoc", plotlib="Gadfly", informat="noweb",
+function Base.run(doc::WeaveDoc; doctype = "pandoc", plotlib="Gadfly",
         out_path=:doc, fig_path = "figures", fig_ext = nothing,
         cache_path = "cache", cache = :off)
     #cache :all, :user, :off, :refresh