Application-Profiles

This project brings (at least partially) the ability of providing properties files like Spring Framework but now in whatever Python context.

How to use it

pip install application-profiles

Import

from application_profiles import ApplicationProfiles
...
profiles = ApplicationProfiles()
...
a_prop :ApplicationProfiles = profiles.properties['a_prop']

Select the desired profile(s) by using Environment Variable

One profile

export APP_PROFILES=dev

List of profile

export APP_PROFILES=dev,red,south

Select the desired profile(s) by constructor argument

One profile

profiles = ApplicationProfiles(profiles="dev")

List of profile

profiles = ApplicationProfiles(profiles="dev,red,south")

How it work?

'profiles' Python module

Before moving on, there are several requirements to accomplish, the first one is having in the root of your project a module called profiles, where your properties files will be placed. Like this

profiles/
    __init__.py
    application.yaml
    application-dev.yaml
    ...

Properties Files

Inside the profiles module, you must place all the properties files to be included in your project. There is a convention required to name them, like in Spring, the prefix of all the files must be application followed by the name of the desired profile, like for example dev, test etc., joined by a hyphen -, here you go a list of common examples

• application-dev.yaml
• application-prod.yaml
• application-int.yaml

Important

The default profile is application.yaml (without a profile name), this file is optional but it is consedered the "default" profile.

Load Precedence

This is something crucial for the library, there is a precedence in how the files are loaded. The profiles files are loaded in the following order:

1.- default profile.

2.- All the profiles in the provided order by the profile constructor argument.

3.- All the profiles in the provided order by the APP_PROFILES environment variable.

Properties are merged in that order, then they are consumables through the ApplicationProfiles object.

How the properties are merged?

This point is extremely important, because there are a couple of restrictions in how this library works

• Lists : if there is a variable in more than one profile that contains a list, it is replaced entirely with the corresponding value.

• Dictionaries: all dictionaries are scanned in deep replacing coincidences for native raw data types like numbers, strings, booleans. It includes nested dictionaries.

Run it in local

This project uses Poetry , in case you don't have it just run make install-poetry

Create a local env & Install dependencies*

make install

Run the Tests Suite

make test