replaced old copy tree data news with GetNews().init_assets_news()

added debug param

uitwww/__init__.py

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def create_app(data_path, debug=False):
     return app
 
 
-def init_data_directory(data_path: str):
+def init_data_directory(data_path: str, debug: bool = False):
     """Initialize the data directory"""
     src_directory = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 
@@ -94,23 +94,15 @@ def init_data_directory(data_path: str):
     for _dir in dirs:
         os.makedirs(os.path.join(data_path, _dir), exist_ok=True)
 
-    # Copy news tree dirs and file
+    news_path = os.path.join(data_path, "news")
+    os.makedirs(news_path, exist_ok=True)  # check if exists
+    if not os.listdir(news_path) or debug:
+        # init ROOT_NEWS and NEWS_PATH
         ROOT_NEWS = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "assets/news")
         NEWS_PATH = os.path.join(data_path, "news")
-    if sys.version_info[:2] > (3, 8):
-        shutil.copytree(ROOT_NEWS, NEWS_PATH, dirs_exist_ok=True)
-    else:
-        try:
-            # if path already exists, remove it before copying with copytree()
-            if os.path.exists(NEWS_PATH):
-                shutil.rmtree(NEWS_PATH)
-                shutil.copytree(ROOT_NEWS, NEWS_PATH)
-            else:
-                shutil.copytree(ROOT_NEWS, NEWS_PATH)
-        except OSError as ex:
-            shutil.copy(ROOT_NEWS, NEWS_PATH)
-        except Exception as ex:
-            print(ex)
+        # clean and populate news directory with all news and create indexes
+        nw_cl = GetNews(data_path)
+        nw_cl.init_assets_news(ROOT_NEWS, NEWS_PATH)
 
     # Initialize the cache
     static_dirs = {"static": "+assets"}