Krausening Python - Externalized Property Management and Access for Python Projects

Krausening property management and encryption for Python is packaged using the open-source Python Maven plugin Habushu and made available as a PyPI package.

Distribution Channel

Krausening Python is published to PyPI under the krausening project and may be installed using any package installer/manager that leverages PyPI. For example:

• Poetry - poetry add krausening
• pip - pip install krausening

Managing Properties with Krausening and Python

Managing properties with Krausening's Python library utilizes a similar approach to that required by Krausening Java. Krausening Python expects that developers prime their target environment by configuring the following environment variables (which are named and leveraged in the same manner as the Java System Properties expected by Krausening Java):

• KRAUSENING_BASE
• KRAUSENING_EXTENSIONS
• KRAUSENING_OVERRIDE_EXTENSIONS
• KRAUSENING_PASSWORD

In order to use the Krausening Python, developers may directly use PropertyManager or extend PropertyManager to provide a custom interface. For example, developers may directly use the PropertyManager as such:

from krausening.properties import PropertyManager

propertyManager = PropertyManager.get_instance()
properties = None
properties = propertyManager.get_properties('my-property-file.properties')
assert properties['foo'] == 'bar2'

This has the disadvantage that you must know the property keys in order to find the corresponding property values. To mitigate the need for all property file consumers to rely on specific property keys, consider wrapping the PropertyManager and writing your own custom methods to get the corresponding keys and values, abstracting away the exact key values:

from krausening.properties import PropertyManager

class TestConfig():
    """
    Configurations utility class for being able to read in and reload properties
    """

    def __init__(self):
        self.properties = None
        self.reload()
 
    def integration_test_enabled(self):
        """
        Returns whether the integration tests are enabled or not
        """
        integration_test_enable = False
        integration_enable_str = self.properties['integration.test.enabled']
        if (integration_enable_str):
            integration_test_enable = (integration_enable_str == 'True')
        return integration_test_enable
    
    def reload(self):
        self.properties = PropertyManager.get_instance().get_properties('test.properties')

Releasing to PyPI

Releasing Krausening Python integrates into the project's larger utilization of the maven-release-plugin, specifically publishing the package to PyPI during the deploy phase. A PyPI account with access to the krausening project is required. PyPI account credentials should be specified in your settings.xml under the <id>pypi</id> <server> entry:

<settings>
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>pypi</id>
      <username>pypi-username</username>
      <password>pypi-password</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>