Basic usage

>>>
>>> import conficus
>>>

Configurations can be loaded directly from a string variable or read via file path string or Path object:

>>> config = conficus.load('/Users/mgemmill/config.ini', toml=True)
>>>

Easier Selection

Accessing nested sections is made easier with chained selectors:

>>> # regular dictionary access:
...
>>> config['app']['debug']
True
>>>
>>> # chained selector access:
...
>>> config['app.debug']
True

Inheritance

Inheritance pushes parent values down to any child section:

# config.ini

[app]
debug = true

[email]
_inherit = 0
host = "smtp.mailhub.com"
port = 2525
sender = "emailerdude@mailhub.com"

[email.alert]
to = ["alert-handler@service.com"]
subject = "THIS IS AN ALERT"
body = "Alerting!"

It is turned on via the inheritance option:

>>> config = conficus.load("config.ini", inheritance=True)

Sub-sections will now contain parent values:

>>> alert_config = config["email.alert"]
>>> alert_config["host"]
>>> "smtp.mailhub.com"
>>> alert_config["subject"]
>>> "THIS IS AN ALERT"

Inheritence can be controled per section via the _inherit option. _inherit = 0 will block the section from inheriting parent values. _inherit = 1 would only allow inheritance from the sections immediate parent; _inherit = 2 would allow both the immediate parent and grandparent inheritance.

_inherit values are stripped from the resulting configuration dictionary.

Additional Conversion Options

In addition to toml’s standard type conversions, conficus has two builtin conversion options and also allows for adding custom conversions.

Conversions only work with string values.

Path Conversions

The pathlib option will convert any toml string value that looks like a path to a python pathlib.Path object:

>>> config = conficus.load("path = '/home/user/.dir'", pathlib=True)
>>> isinstance(config["path"], Path)
>>> True

Decimal Conversions

The decimal option will convert any toml string value that matches \d+\.\d+ to a python Decimal object:

>>> config = conficus.load("number = '12.22'", decimal=True)
>>> isinstance(config["number"], Decimal)
>>> True

Custom Conversions

A custom coercer consists of 3 valus:

1. a name string

2. a regular expression string

3. a conversion function that takes a string value and returns the coerced value

This a contrived example, where we’re defining a notation (“upper::”) to identify a custom value we want to convert. You could easily take this example and do something similar that decrypts an encrypted value.

>>> def convert_to_caps(raw_value: str) -> str:
...     return raw_value.upper()
>>> config = conficus.load("address = 'upper::121 fleet street'", coercers=[("upper-case", (r"^upper::(?P<value>.*)$", convert_to_caps))])
>>> config["address"]
... "121 FLEET STREET"