cabinet 2023.5.20.2

Easily manage data storage and logging across repos

cabinet

A Python library to easily store data across multiple projects in one or more JSON files.

Supports a cli, email, and event logging.

Features

• Read and write data in the JSON files of your choice
• Log to a file/directory of your choice without having to configure logger each time
• Send/receive mail using cabinet.Cabinet().mail()

Structure

• Data is stored in a settings.json file in the location of your choice
• Logs are written to {/path/to/cabinet}/log/LOG_DAILY_YYYY-MM-DD by default
  • this can be changed on a per-log basis

Installation and Setup

  python3 -m pip install cabinet

  cabinet --config

CLI usage

Usage: cabinet [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -h, --help              Show this help message and exit
  --configure, -config    Configure
  --edit, -e              Edit the settings.json file
  --edit-file, -ef        Edit a specific file
  --no-create             (for -ef) Do not create file if it does not exist
  --get, -g [GET ...]     Get a property from settings.json
  --put PUT [PUT ...]     Put a property into settings.json
  --get-file GET_FILE     Get file
  --strip                 (for --get-file) Whether to strip file content whitespace
  --log, -l               Log a message to the default location
  --level LOG_LEVEL       (for -l) Log level [debug, info, warn, error, critical]
  -v, --version           show version number and exit

Mail:
  --mail                Sends an email
  --subject SUBJECT, -s SUBJECT
                        Email subject
  --body BODY, -b BODY  Email body
  --to TO_ADDR, -t TO_ADDR

Configuration

• Upon first launch, will prompt you to choose a location for settings.json. You can change this at any time with cabinet --config.

edit_file() shortcuts

• see example below to enable something like
  • cabinet -ef shopping from the terminal
    • rather than cabinet -ef "/home/{username}/path/to/shopping_list.md"
  • or cabinet.Cabinet().edit("shopping")
    • rather than cabinet.Cabinet().edit("/home/{username}/path/to/whatever.md")

file:

# example only; these commands will be unique to your setup

{
  "path": {
    "edit": {
      "shopping": {
        "value": "/home/{username}/path/to/whatever.md",
      },
      "todo": {
        "value": "/home/{username}/path/to/whatever.md",
      }
    }
  }
}

set from terminal:

cabinet -p edit shopping value "/home/{username}/path/to/whatever.md"
cabinet -p edit todo value "/home/{username}/path/to/whatever.md"

mail

• It is NEVER a good idea to store your password in plaintext; for this reason, I strongly recommend a "throwaway" account that is only used for sending emails
• Gmail (as of May 2022) and most other mainstream email providers won't work with this; for support, search for sending mail from your email provider with smtplib.
• In settings.json, add the email object to make your settings file look like this example:

file:

{
    "email": {
        "from": "[e-mail]",
        "from_pw": "example",
        "from_name": "Raspberry Pi",
        "to": "[e-mail]",
        "smtp_server": "example.com",
        "imap_server": "example.com",
        "port": 123
    }
}

set from terminal:

cabinet -p email from [e-mail]
cabinet -p email from_pw example
...

Examples

put

python:

from cabinet import Cabinet

cab = Cabinet()

cab.put("employee", "Tyler", "salary", 7.25)

or terminal:

# warning - from the terminal, numeric values in cabinet are stored as strings
cabinet -p employer Tyler salary 7.25

results in this structure in settings.json:

{
    "employee": {
        "Tyler": {
            "salary": 7.25 # or "7.25" if done from terminal
        }
    }
}

get

python:

from cabinet import Cabinet

cab = Cabinet()

print(cab.get("employee", "Tyler", "salary"))

or terminal:

cabinet -g employee Tyler salary

results in:

7.25

edit_file

python:

from cabinet import Cabinet

cab = Cabinet()

# if put("path", "edit", "shopping", "/path/to/shopping.md") has been called, this will edit the file assigned to that shortcut.

# opens file in Vim, saves upon exit
cab.edit("shopping")

# or you can edit a file directly...
cab.edit("/path/to/shopping.md")

terminal:

# assumes path -> edit -> shopping -> path/to/shopping.md has been set
cabinet -ef shoppping

or 

cabinet -ef "/path/to/shopping.md"

mail

python:

from cabinet import Mail

mail = Mail()

mail.send('Test Subject', 'Test Body')

terminal:

cabinet --mail --subject "Test Subject" --body "Test Body"

# or

cabinet --mail -s "Test Subject" -b "Test Body"

log

python:

from cabinet import Cabinet

cab = Cabinet()

# writes to a file named LOG_DAILY_YYYY-MM-DD in the default log folder (or cab.get('path', 'log')) inside a YYYY-MM-DD folder

cab.log("Connection timed out") # defaults to 'info' if no level is set
cab.log("This function hit a breakpoint", level="debug")
cab.log("Looks like the server is on fire", level="critical")
cab.log("This is fine", level="info")

# writes to a file named LOG_TEMPERATURE

cab.log("30", logName="LOG_TEMPERATURE")

# writes to a file named LOG_TEMPERATURE in /home/{username}/weather

cab.log("30", logName="LOG_TEMPERATURE", filePath="/home/{username}/weather")

    # format
    # 2021-12-29 19:29:27,896 — INFO — 30

terminal:

# defaults to 'info' if no level is set
cab -l "Connection timed out" 

# -l and --log are interchangeable
cab --log "Connection timed out"

# change levels with --level
cab --log "Server is on fire" --level "critical"

Dependencies

• Python >= 3.6
• smtplib

Disclaimers

• Although I've done quite a bit of testing, I can't guarantee everything that works on my machine will work on yours. Always back up your data to multiple places to avoid data loss.
• If you find any issues, please contact me... or get your hands dirty and raise a PR!

Author

• Tyler Woodfin
  • GitHub
  • Website