A bafflingly simple, JSON-backend configuration manager for python programs.
Project description
confjson
What is it?
A bafflingly simple, JSON-backed configuration manager for Python programs.
Why is it?
I kept implementing roughly the same thing from scratch in my various projects, so I figured it was time to do it properly.
User guide
The confjson.Config
class is similar to a ChainMap, and works by means of two JSON files in the same directory:
default.config.json
- The default config file is read-only as far as confjson is concerned. To add default settings, manually edit the file.
- If the file does not exist, there are no defaults.
- This file will typically be version controlled along with the code.
user.config.json
- Any changes made to the config (and saved) at runtime end up in this file.
- If the file does not exist, it will be created when changes are saved.
- User settings take priority over default settings.
- This file should probably be added to .gitignore or such. The names of both files are configurable. The above names are the defaults.
Initialization
The path given when initializing the Config object can be either a directory or a file. If it refers to a file, confjson will look for config files in the containing directory. The reason for this is that it enables the pattern of using __file__
to find config files in the same directory as the program.
config = confjson.Config(__file__)
config = confjson.Config(".")
config = confjson.Config(
"./configs",
user_config_filename=f"{os.getenv('username')}.cfg",
default_config_filename="global.cfg",
)
Data access
Items in the confjson config are accessed as in a dict.
if "username" in config["user"]:
do_something(config["user"]["username"])
config["user"]["something_count"] += 1
It is also possible to access items as attributes, unless they share a name with a method of the Config class.
config.my_key = "my value"
Persistence
The load() method (re-)loads the Config object with values from the backing JSON files. Loading is also performed on initialization, so this is mainly for discarding changes.
config.load()
The save() method saves any changed or added items to user.config.json only.
config.save()
Version history
1.3.0
- Made filenames of both user.config.json and default.config.json configurable.
- Added
use_placeholders
argument to Config class. When True, doesn't raise KeyError on attempted access to a nonexistent key, instead returning a placeholder. Assignments of keys to a placeholder will propagate up through the hierarchy and add real dicts as needed.
1.2.2
- Added
keys()
,get(key, default)
and__contains__(key)
to ConfigItemProxy to fix a few problems caused by the previous change.
1.2.1
- Improved attribute-style access and enabled mixed style access.
1.2.0
- Enabled attribute-style access to config items.
1.1.0
- Fixed handling of nested dicts.
- Added check to prevent insertion of JSON-incompatible values right away rather than fail on save.
- Added some more dict-like dunder methods.
1.0.1
- Changed
__init__
to also load the config files.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
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