In order to allow for null and undefined metadata values, this hook returned a symbol to indicate that parsing failed or was pending.
For values where the parsed value will never be null or undefined, it is useful get the value or null (instead of a symbol).
When running the configurator, the `legacy_models_conf_path` was stripped when saving the config file. Then the migration logic didn't fire correctly, and the custom models.yaml paths weren't migrated into the db.
- Rework the logic to migrate this path by adding it to the config object as a normal field that is not excluded from serialization.
- Rearrange the models.yaml migration logic to remove the legacy path after migrating, then write the config file. This way, the legacy path doesn't stick around.
- Move the schema version into the config object.
- Back up the config file before attempting migration.
- Add tests to cover this edge case
Hold onto `conf_path` temporarily while migrating `invokeai.yaml` so that it gets migrated correctly as the model installer starts up. Stashed as `legacy_models_yaml_path` in the config, excluded from serialization.
We have two problems with how argparse is being utilized:
- We parse CLI args as the `api_app.py` file is read. This causes a problem pytest, which has an incompatible set of CLI args. Some tests import the FastAPI app, which triggers the config to parse CLI args, which receives the pytest args and fails.
- We've repeatedly had problems when something that uses the config is imported before the CLI args are parsed. When this happens, the root dir may not be set correctly, so we attempt to operate on incorrect paths.
To resolve these issues, we need to lift CLI arg parsing outside of the application code, but still let the application access the CLI args. We can create a external app entrypoint to do this.
- `InvokeAIArgs` is a simple helper class that parses CLI args and stores the result.
- `run_app()` is the new entrypoint. It first parses CLI args, then runs `invoke_api` to start the app.
The `invokeai-web` project script and `invokeai-web.py` dev script now call `run_app()` instead of `invoke_api()`.
The first time `get_config()` is called to get the singleton config object, it retrieves the args from `InvokeAIArgs`, sets the root dir if provided, then merges settings in from `invokeai.yaml`.
CLI arg parsing is now safely insulated from application code, but still accessible. And we don't need to worry about import order having an impact on anything, because by the time the app is running, we have already parsed CLI args. Whew!
