From 5d954b2f580e47d8083628f402756b7c313782e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Donaldson <donaldson8@llnl.gov>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:48:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Adding validator to detect duplicate authors

---
 devel/validate.py | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/devel/validate.py b/devel/validate.py
index 3f94e5b..150f0d3 100644
--- a/devel/validate.py
+++ b/devel/validate.py
@@ -94,13 +94,27 @@ class MothValidator:
         if len(duplicate_answers) > 0:
             raise MothValidationError("Duplicate answer(s) %s" % ", ".join(duplicate_answers))
 
-
     @staticmethod
     def check_has_authors(puzzle):
         """Check if the puzzle has authors defined"""
         if len(puzzle.authors) == 0:
             raise MothValidationError("No authors provided")
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def check_unique_authors(puzzle):
+        """Check if puzzle authors are unique"""
+        known_authors = []
+        duplicate_authors = []
+
+        for author in puzzle.authors:
+            if author not in known_authors:
+                known_authors.append(author)
+            else:
+                duplicate_authors.append(author)
+
+        if len(duplicate_authors) > 0:
+            raise MothValidationError("Duplicate author(s) %s" % ", ".join(duplicate_authors))
+
     @staticmethod
     def check_has_summary(puzzle):
         """Check if the puzzle has a summary"""