jupyter - use language from language_info when necessary (#12374)

Author: cscheid

news/changelog-1.7.md

@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ All changes included in 1.7:
 ### `jupyter`
 
 - ([#12114](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12114)): `JUPYTERCACHE` environment variable from [Jupyter cache CLI](https://jupyter-cache.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using/cli.html) is now respected by Quarto when `cache: true` is used. This environment variable allows to change the path of the cache directory.
+- ([#12374](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12374)): Detect language properly in Jupyter notebooks that lack the `language` field in their `kernelspec`s.
 
 ## Other Fixes and Improvements
 

src/command/convert/jupyter.ts

@@ -47,7 +47,23 @@ export async function jupyterNotebookToMarkdown(
 ) {
   // read notebook & alias kernelspec
   const notebook = fixupFrontMatter(jupyterFromFile(file));
-  const kernelspec = notebook.metadata.kernelspec;
+  let kernelspec = notebook.metadata.kernelspec;
+
+  // https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12374
+  // narrow fix for .ipynbs that have a language_info field but no kernelspec.language
+  if (
+    kernelspec.language === undefined && notebook.metadata.language_info?.name
+  ) {
+    kernelspec = {
+      ...kernelspec,
+      language: notebook.metadata.language_info?.name,
+    };
+  }
+  if (kernelspec.language === undefined) {
+    throw new Error(
+      "No language found in kernelspec for notebook " + file,
+    );
+  }
 
   // generate markdown
   const md: string[] = [];

src/core/jupyter/types.ts

@@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ export interface JupyterCapabilitiesEx extends JupyterCapabilities {
   venv?: boolean;
 }
 
+// cf https://github.com/jupyter/nbformat/blob/main/nbformat/v4/nbformat.v4.schema.json
+// note that this doesn't directly define the kernelspec as used in kernel.json
+// but defines the kernelspec object used in .ipynb files
+//
+// note in addition that Quarto needs to know the language name which
+// might not come from the kernelspec itself but will exist in a language_info
+// field. When the kernelspec object in a jupyter notebook is missing the language field,
+// this object's language field will come from the language_info.name field
+//
+// see https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12374
 export interface JupyterKernelspec {
   name: string;
   language: string;
@@ -88,10 +98,20 @@ export interface JupyterAssets {
   supporting_dir: string;
 }
 
+// cf https://github.com/jupyter/nbformat/blob/main/nbformat/v4/nbformat.v4.schema.json
+export type JupyterLanguageInfo = {
+  name: string;
+  codemirror_mode?: string | Record<string, unknown>;
+  file_extension?: string;
+  mimetype?: string;
+  pygments_lexer?: string;
+};
+
 export interface JupyterNotebook {
   metadata: {
     kernelspec: JupyterKernelspec;
     widgets?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    language_info?: JupyterLanguageInfo;
     [key: string]: unknown;
   };
   cells: JupyterCell[];

src/execute/jupyter/jupyter-kernel.ts

@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ export async function executeKernelOneshot(
   }
 
   trace(options, "Executing notebook with oneshot kernel");
-  const debug = !!options.format.execute[kExecuteDebug];
+  const debug = !!options.format.execute[kExecuteDebug] ||
+    (!!Deno.env.get("QUARTO_JUPYTER_DEBUG"));
   const result = await execJupyter(
     "execute",
     { ...options, debug },

src/execute/jupyter/jupyter.ts

@@ -181,7 +181,19 @@ export const jupyterEngine: ExecutionEngine = {
     let nb: JupyterNotebook | undefined;
     if (isJupyterNotebook(file)) {
       const nbJSON = Deno.readTextFileSync(file);
-      nb = JSON.parse(nbJSON) as JupyterNotebook;
+      const nbRaw = JSON.parse(nbJSON);
+
+      // https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12374
+      // kernelspecs are not guaranteed to have a language field
+      // so we need to check for it and if not present
+      // use the language_info.name field
+      if (
+        nbRaw.metadata.kernelspec.language === undefined &&
+        nbRaw.metadata.language_info?.name
+      ) {
+        nbRaw.metadata.kernelspec.language = nbRaw.metadata.language_info.name;
+      }
+      nb = nbRaw as JupyterNotebook;
     }
 
     // cache check for percent script

src/resources/jupyter/notebook.py

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ def notebook_execute(options, status):
       nb_parameterize(nb, quarto_kernel_setup_options["params"])
 
    # insert setup cell
-   setup_cell = nb_setup_cell(nb.metadata.kernelspec, quarto_kernel_setup_options)
+   setup_cell = nb_setup_cell(nb, quarto_kernel_setup_options)
    nb.cells.insert(0, setup_cell)
 
    nb_cache = retrieve_nb_from_cache(nb, status, **quarto_kernel_setup_options)
@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ def handle_meta_object(obj):
       if cell.cell_type == 'code':
          total_code_cells += 1
       # map cells to their labels
-      label = nb_cell_yaml_options(client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.language, cell).get('label', '')
+      language = client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.get("language", client.nb.metadata.language_info.name)
+      label = nb_cell_yaml_options(language, cell).get('label', '')
       cell_labels.append(label)
       # find max label length
       max_label_len = max(max_label_len, len(label))
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ def handle_meta_object(obj):
    nb_write(client.nb, input)
 
    # execute cleanup cell
-   cleanup_cell = nb_cleanup_cell(nb.metadata.kernelspec, resource_dir)
+   cleanup_cell = nb_cleanup_cell(nb, resource_dir)
    if cleanup_cell:
       kernel_supports_daemonization = True
       nb.cells.append(cleanup_cell)
@@ -425,18 +426,20 @@ async def get_info():
 def nb_write(nb, input):
    nbformat.write(nb, input, version = NB_FORMAT_VERSION)
 
-def nb_setup_cell(kernelspec, options):
+def nb_setup_cell(nb, options):
    options = dict(options)
    options["allow_empty"] = True
-   return nb_language_cell('setup', kernelspec, **options)
+   return nb_language_cell('setup', nb, **options)
 
-def nb_cleanup_cell(kernelspec, resource_dir):
-   return nb_language_cell('cleanup', kernelspec, resource_dir, False)
+def nb_cleanup_cell(nb, resource_dir):
+   return nb_language_cell('cleanup', nb, resource_dir, False)
 
-def nb_language_cell(name, kernelspec, resource_dir, allow_empty, **args):
-   trace(json.dumps(kernelspec, indent=2))
+def nb_language_cell(name, nb, resource_dir, allow_empty, **args):
+   kernelspec = nb.metadata.kernelspec
+   language = nb.metadata.kernelspec.get("language", nb.metadata.language_info.name)
+   trace(json.dumps(nb.metadata, indent=2))
    source = ''
-   lang_dir = os.path.join(resource_dir, 'jupyter', 'lang',  kernelspec.language)
+   lang_dir = os.path.join(resource_dir, 'jupyter', 'lang', language)
    if os.path.isdir(lang_dir):
       cell_file = glob.glob(os.path.join(lang_dir, name + '.*'))
       # base64-encode the run_path given
@@ -445,7 +448,7 @@ def nb_language_cell(name, kernelspec, resource_dir, allow_empty, **args):
          with open(cell_file[0], 'r') as file:
             source = file.read().format(**args)
    else:
-      trace(f'No {kernelspec.language} directory found in {lang_dir}')
+      trace(f'No {language} directory found in {lang_dir}')
       trace(f'Will look for explicit quarto setup cell information in kernelspec dir')
       try:
          with open(os.path.join(kernelspec.path, f"quarto_{name}_cell"), 'r') as file:
@@ -500,8 +503,9 @@ def nb_kernel_dependencies(setup_cell):
 
 def cell_execute(client, cell, index, execution_count, eval_default, store_history):
 
+   language = client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.get("language", client.nb.metadata.language_info.name)
    # read cell options
-   cell_options = nb_cell_yaml_options(client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.language, cell)
+   cell_options = nb_cell_yaml_options(language, cell)
 
    # check options for eval and error
    eval = cell_options.get('eval', eval_default)
@@ -560,7 +564,7 @@ def clear_user_expressions():
             del metadata["user_expressions"]
 
    # find expressions in source
-   language = client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.language
+   language = client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.get("language", client.nb.metadata.language_info.name)
    source = ''.join(cell.source)
    expressions = re.findall(
       fr'(?:^|[^`])`{{{language}}}[ \t]([^`]+)`',
@@ -623,7 +627,7 @@ def nb_parameterize(nb, params):
 
    # alias kernel name and language
    kernel_name = nb.metadata.kernelspec.name
-   language = nb.metadata.kernelspec.language
+   language = nb.metadata.kernelspec.get("language", nb.metadata.language_info.name)
 
    # find params index and note any tags/yaml on it (exit if no params)
    params_index = find_first_tagged_cell_index(nb, "parameters")
@@ -701,7 +705,7 @@ def find_first_tagged_cell_index(nb, tag):
    return parameters_indices[0]
 
 def nb_strip_yaml_options(client, source):
-   yaml_lines = nb_cell_yaml_lines(client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.language, source)  
+   yaml_lines = nb_cell_yaml_lines(client.nb.metadata.kernelspec.get("language", client.nb.metadata.language_info.name), source)  
    num_yaml_lines = len(yaml_lines)
    if num_yaml_lines > 0:
       return "\n".join(source.splitlines()[num_yaml_lines:])

tests/docs/jupyter/issue-12374.ipynb

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "metadata": {
+    "colab": {
+     "base_uri": "https://localhost:8080/"
+    },
+    "id": "KSSliJZInRNP",
+    "outputId": "7d826c0a-e6ab-4f76-f334-4cff966e6253"
+   },
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "Hello, world\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "print(\"Hello, world\")"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "colab": {
+   "provenance": []
+  },
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.10.15"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 0
+}

tests/smoke/jupyter/issue-12374.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * issue-12374.test.ts
+ * 
+ * https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12374
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2023 Posit Software, PBC
+ */
+
+import { quarto } from "../../../src/quarto.ts";
+import { test } from "../../test.ts";
+import { assertEquals } from "testing/asserts";
+import { noErrors } from "../../verify.ts";
+
+test({
+  name: "jupyter:issue-12374.test.ts",
+  context: {},
+  execute: async () => {
+    // https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12374
+    await quarto(["render", 
+      "docs/jupyter/issue-12374.ipynb",
+      "--no-execute-daemon", "--execute"]);
+  },
+  verify: [noErrors],
+  type: "smoke",
+});