minor fixes lingering from #1368

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 **Related issue (if applicable):** #<!--apprise issue number goes here-->
 
 <!-- Have anything else to describe? Define it here; this helps build the wiki item later
+  -- Delete this section if you are not creating a new plugin --
+
 ## *ServiceName* Notifications
 * **Source**: https://official.website.example.ca
-* **Icon Support**: No
-* **Message Format**: Plain Text
-* **Message Limit**: ~10,000 Characters
+* **Icon Support**: Yes / No
+* **Message Format**: Plain Text / HTML / Markdown
+* **Message Limit**: nn Characters
 
 Describe your service here..
 
@@ -43,8 +45,6 @@ apprise -vv -t "Title" -b "Message content" \
     service://token
 ```
 
- -->
-
 ## New Service Completion Status
 <!-- This section is only applicable if you're adding a new service -->
 * [ ] apprise/plugins/<!--new plugin name -->.py
@@ -55,16 +55,18 @@ apprise -vv -t "Title" -b "Message content" \
 * [ ] packaging/redhat/python-apprise.spec
     - add new service into the `%global common_description`
 
+ -- END OF NEW PLUGIN SECTION - REMOVE ABOVE SECION IF NOT A NEW PLUGIN -->
+
 ## Checklist
 <!-- The following must be completed or your PR can't be merged -->
 * [ ] The code change is tested and works locally.
 * [ ] There is no commented out code in this PR.
-* [ ] No lint errors (use `tox -e lint`)
-* [ ] 100% test coverage (use `tox -e minimal`)
+* [ ] No lint errors (use `tox -e lint` and even `tox -e format` to autofix what it can)
+* [ ] Test coverage added (use `tox -e minimal`)
 
 ## Testing
 <!-- If this your code is testable by other users of the program
-      it would be really helpful to define this here -->
+     it would be really helpful to define this here -->
 Anyone can help test this source code as follows:
 ```bash
 # Create a virtual environment to work in as follows:
@@ -83,5 +85,8 @@ pip install git+https://github.com/caronc/apprise.git@<this.branch-name>
 apprise -t "Test Title" -b "Test Message" \
   <apprise url related to ticket>
 
+# If you have cloned the branch and have tox available to you
+# the following can also allow you to test:
+tox -e apprise -- -t "Test Title" -b "Test Message" \
+          <apprise url related to ticket>
 ```
-

apprise/apprise.py

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ class Apprise:
         self,
         body: Union[str, bytes],
         title: Union[str, bytes] = "",
-        notify_type: common.NotifyType = common.NotifyType.INFO,
+        notify_type: Union[str, common.NotifyType] = common.NotifyType.INFO,
         body_format: Optional[str] = None,
         tag: Any = common.MATCH_ALL_TAG,
         match_always: bool = True,
@@ -526,6 +526,18 @@ class Apprise:
             logger.error(msg)
             raise TypeError(msg)
 
+        try:
+            notify_type = (
+                notify_type if isinstance(notify_type, common.NotifyType)
+                else common.NotifyType(notify_type.lower())
+            )
+
+        except (AttributeError, ValueError, TypeError):
+            err = (
+                f"An invalid notification type ({notify_type}) was "
+                "specified.")
+            raise TypeError(err) from None
+
         try:
             if title and isinstance(title, bytes):
                 title = title.decode(self.asset.encoding)

tests/test_api.py

@@ -286,10 +286,36 @@ def apprise_test(do_notify):
     assert a.add("good://localhost") is True
     assert len(a) == 1
 
-    # Bad Notification Type is still allowed as it is presumed the user
-    # know's what their doing
+    # Bad Notification Types are not accepted
     assert (
         do_notify(a, title="my title", body="my body", notify_type="bad")
+        is False
+    )
+
+    # Notifications of string type are accepted
+    assert (
+        do_notify(a, title="my title", body="my body", notify_type="warning")
+        is True
+    )
+
+    # Notifications of string type are accepted
+    assert (
+        do_notify(a, title="my title", body="my body", notify_type="warning")
+        is True
+    )
+
+    # Notifications of string type are accepted
+    assert (
+        do_notify(a, title="my title", body="my body", notify_type="warning")
+        is True
+    )
+
+    # Notifications where notify_type is of the NotifyType object is the
+    # preferred choice
+    assert (
+        do_notify(
+            a, title="my title", body="my body",
+            notify_type=NotifyType.WARNING)
         is True
     )
 

tests/test_apprise_cli.py

@@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ def test_apprise_cli_plugin_loading(mock_post, tmpdir):
     @notify(on="clihook")
     def mywrapper(body, title, notify_type, *args, **kwargs):
         # A simple test - print to screen
-        print("{}: {} - {}".format(notify_type, title, body))
+        print("{}: {} - {}".format(notify_type.value, title, body))
 
         # No return (so a return of None) get's translated to True
 
@@ -2016,7 +2016,7 @@ def test_apprise_cli_plugin_loading(mock_post, tmpdir):
     @notify(on="clihookA")
     def mywrapper(body, title, notify_type, *args, **kwargs):
         # A simple test - print to screen
-        print("!! {}: {} - {}".format(notify_type, title, body))
+        print("!! {}: {} - {}".format(notify_type.value, title, body))
 
         # No return (so a return of None) get's translated to True
     """))
@@ -2286,6 +2286,37 @@ def test_apprise_cli_plugin_loading(mock_post, tmpdir):
     # to the CLI
     assert result.exit_code == 0
 
+
+    result = runner.invoke(
+        cli.main,
+        [
+            "--plugin-path",
+            join(str(tmpdir), "complex"),
+            "--notification-type", "invalid",
+            "-b",
+            "test body",
+            # our clihook that returns true
+            "clihook1://",
+        ],
+    )
+    # Bad notification type specified
+    assert result.exit_code == 2
+
+    result = runner.invoke(
+        cli.main,
+        [
+            "--plugin-path",
+            join(str(tmpdir), "complex"),
+            "-b",
+            "-i", "warning"
+            "test body",
+            # our clihook that returns true
+            "clihook1://",
+        ],
+    )
+    # Bad notification type specified
+    assert result.exit_code == 0
+
     result = runner.invoke(
         cli.main,
         [

tox.ini

@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ commands =
     coverage run --source=apprise -m pytest tests {posargs}
     coverage report
 
+[testenv:test]
+description = Run simplified tests without coverage
+extras = dev,all-plugins
+commands =
+    pip install --no-cache-dir -e ".[dev,all-plugins]"
+    pytest --tb=short -q {posargs}
+
 [testenv:clean]
 description = Remove build artifacts and cache files
 skip_install = true
@@ -96,6 +103,7 @@ allowlist_externals =
 commands =
     find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete
     find . -type f -name "*.pyo" -delete
+    find . -type f -name "*.orig" -delete
     find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -delete
     rm -rf BUILD SOURCES SRPMS BUILDROOT .cache .ruff_cache .coverage-reports .coverage coverage.xml dist build apprise.egg-info .mypy_cache .pytest_cache