From f0f9575406b305110a665b801414a00a6be394d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 19:00:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [job] fix 'AttributeError' when enabling 'init' for
 non-DownloadJob

fixes bug in 56dcd00391ba6bb344d99d9474835319fbbd48b8
---
 gallery_dl/job.py |  5 +++-
 test/test_job.py  | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/job.py b/gallery_dl/job.py
index 186e79e9..19255f89 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/job.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/job.py
@@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ class Job():
             for key, valuegen in self.kwdict_eval:
                 kwdict[key] = valuegen(kwdict)
 
+    def initialize(self):
+        pass
+
     def _init(self):
         self.extractor.initialize()
         self.pred_url = self._prepare_predicates(
@@ -596,7 +599,7 @@ class DownloadJob(Job):
         return instance
 
     def initialize(self, kwdict=None):
-        """Delayed initialization of PathFormat, etc."""
+        """initialize PathFormat, postprocessors, archive, options, etc"""
         extr = self.extractor
         cfg = extr.config
 
diff --git a/test/test_job.py b/test/test_job.py
index c59519c0..a33738e7 100644
--- a/test/test_job.py
+++ b/test/test_job.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-# Copyright 2021-2025 Mike Fährmann
+# Copyright 2021-2026 Mike Fährmann
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
@@ -51,19 +51,45 @@ class TestDownloadJob(TestJob):
         func = tjob._build_extractor_filter()
         self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractor)      , False)
         self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorParent), False)
-        self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorAlt)   , True)
+        self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorNoop)  , True)
 
         config.set((), "blacklist", ":test_subcategory")
         func = tjob._build_extractor_filter()
         self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractor)      , False)
         self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorParent), True)
-        self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorAlt)   , False)
+        self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorNoop)  , False)
 
         config.set((), "whitelist", "test_category:test_subcategory")
         func = tjob._build_extractor_filter()
         self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractor)      , True)
         self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorParent), False)
-        self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorAlt)   , False)
+        self.assertEqual(func(TestExtractorNoop)  , False)
+
+    def test_opt_init(self):
+        config.set((), "init", True)
+        config.set((), "archive", ":memory:")
+        config.set((), "postprocessors", "directory")
+
+        extr = TestExtractorNoop.from_url("test:noop")
+        tjob = self.jobclass(extr)
+        tjob._init()
+
+        self.assertTrue(tjob.pathfmt)
+        self.assertTrue(tjob.archive)
+        self.assertTrue(tjob.hooks)
+
+    def test_opt_init_false(self):
+        config.set((), "init", False)
+        config.set((), "archive", ":memory:")
+        config.set((), "postprocessors", "directory")
+
+        extr = TestExtractorNoop.from_url("test:noop")
+        tjob = self.jobclass(extr)
+        tjob._init()
+
+        self.assertFalse(tjob.pathfmt)
+        self.assertFalse(tjob.archive)
+        self.assertFalse(tjob.hooks)
 
 
 class TestKeywordJob(TestJob):
@@ -122,6 +148,13 @@ user['self']
   <circular reference>
 """)
 
+    def test_opt_init(self):
+        config.set((), "init", True)
+
+        extr = TestExtractorNoop.from_url("test:noop")
+        tjob = self.jobclass(extr)
+        tjob._init()
+
 
 class TestUrlJob(TestJob):
     jobclass = job.UrlJob
@@ -165,6 +198,13 @@ https://example.org/2.jpg
 https://example.org/3.jpg
 """)
 
+    def test_opt_init(self):
+        config.set((), "init", True)
+
+        extr = TestExtractorNoop.from_url("test:noop")
+        tjob = self.jobclass(extr)
+        tjob._init()
+
 
 class TestInfoJob(TestJob):
     jobclass = job.InfoJob
@@ -228,6 +268,13 @@ Directory format (default):
 
 """)
 
+    def test_opt_init(self):
+        config.set((), "init", True)
+
+        extr = TestExtractorNoop.from_url("test:noop")
+        tjob = self.jobclass(extr)
+        tjob._init()
+
 
 class TestDataJob(TestJob):
     jobclass = job.DataJob
@@ -378,6 +425,13 @@ class TestDataJob(TestJob):
         for line in file.getvalue().split():
             self.assertRegex(line, r"""^\[[23],("http[^"]+",)?\{.+\}\]$""")
 
+    def test_opt_init(self):
+        config.set((), "init", True)
+
+        extr = TestExtractorNoop.from_url("test:noop")
+        tjob = self.jobclass(extr)
+        tjob._init()
+
 
 class TestExtractor(Extractor):
     category = "test_category"
@@ -437,9 +491,10 @@ class TestExtractorException(Extractor):
         return 1/0
 
 
-class TestExtractorAlt(Extractor):
+class TestExtractorNoop(Extractor):
     category = "test_category_alt"
     subcategory = "test_subcategory"
+    pattern = r"test:noop"
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":