Method getdict

scrapy/settings/__init__.py:253–274

Get a setting value as a dictionary. If the setting original type is a dictionary, a copy of it will be returned. If it is a string it will be evaluated as a JSON dictionary. In the case that it is a :class:`~scrapy.settings.BaseSettings` instance itself, it will be

(
        self, name: _SettingsKey, default: dict[Any, Any] | None = None
    )

        return list(value)

    def getdict(
        self, name: _SettingsKey, default: dict[Any, Any] | None = None
    ) -> dict[Any, Any]:
        """
        Get a setting value as a dictionary. If the setting original type is a
        dictionary, a copy of it will be returned. If it is a string it will be
        evaluated as a JSON dictionary. In the case that it is a
        :class:`~scrapy.settings.BaseSettings` instance itself, it will be
        converted to a dictionary, containing all its current settings values
        as they would be returned by :meth:`~scrapy.settings.BaseSettings.get`,
        and losing all information about priority and mutability.

        :param name: the setting name
        :type name: str

        :param default: the value to return if no setting is found
        :type default: object
        """
        value = self.get(name, default or {})
        if isinstance(value, str):
            value = json.loads(value)
        return dict(value)

    def getdictorlist(
        self,