visualize and manipulate (sets of hierarchal) config files
Project description
ConfigView is tool to visualize and manipulate (sets of hierarchal) config files.
http://bitbucket.org/schettino72/configview/
Intro
Lets take an example of a web application that is deployed into different sites using different config values. It is desirable to keep config items specific to a site in separate files. The application also uses different config values depending if it is used on development and production.
This gives the following usage of config files:
site 1 dev -> base_config.ini, site1_config.ini
site 2 dev -> base_config.ini, site2_config.ini
site 3 dev -> base_config.ini, site3_config.ini
site 1 production -> base_config.ini, site1_config.ini, production.ini
…
ConfigView is tool to help you visualize what are the actual values being used, and provide a “diff” between different sets.
see http://bitbucket.org/schettino72/configview/raw/tip/samples/sample.html for a sample output.
Usage
Pass config files in priority order. “+” is use to separate different sets.
$ confview base_config.ini site1_config.ini + base_config.ini site2_config.ini
Features
handle hierarchical configs
diff of 2 or more config sets
[TODO] command line for “set” operations like difference, union…
supported config formats
INI files (only __default__ is used - no support for config groups)
plain python files
Install
$ python setup.py install
or use easy_install or pip
License
MIT
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