ews-core-config 20240409

A simple TOML configuration for EWS settings

ews-core-config

Installation

Install with

pipx install ews-core-config[cli]

What does it do

It looks for a .ews_config.toml file in your home directory.

See an example configuration in this discussion.

The default config is found in the file config.py.

Usage

Libraries developed by EWS Consulting can require this package as an optional dependency under the extra ews.

This can be done in the pyproject.toml file.

[project.optional-dependencies]
ews = ["ews-core-config"]

This installation will be like:

pip install ews-my-awesome-library[ews]

Then, in the code:

import contextlib
with contextlib.suppress(ImportError):
    from ews_core_config.config import read_settings
    read_settings()
my_password = os.getenv("EWS_SHAREPOINT_USERNAME", "")

This will read your config file and set all the environment variables.

For instance, other libraries (like the one used to retrieve files on our SharePoint) will have access to the env. variable EWS_SHAREPOINT_USERNAME and EWS_SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD.

Alternatively, you can directly retrieve the settings from the module.

from ews_core_config.config import read_settings
EWSSettings = read_settings()
username = EWSSettings.sharepoint_username
assert username != "", "Please set your SharePoint user name!"

This is not the preferred way. Indeed, it might be easier to refractor libraries to make them independent of our library if they just use environment variables.

Installation with pipx

pipx install .[cli] --editable --force