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This package provides a minimal class for pretty settings management.

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# License

Copyright 2015 Stefano Terna

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# prettysettings
prettysettings is a minimal library which allows to save and retrieve configuraton settings from a json file and from env variables.

## Override:
Override order is:
- first read from defaults
- then override from file
- last override from env variables

## Keys:
- defaults dict is used as a reference to load keys from file and from env variables
- if a key is found in the file (or env vars) which is not present in the defaults it is discarded

## Types:
- defaults dict is used to enforce type when loading from file or env variables
- this ensures that env variables, which must be strings, are parsed to the type used in the default dict
- parsed types are: `bool`, `int`, `float`, `str`
- any type `T` for which a string representation exists, so that `T(string)` is the expected object is supported
- hence if `defaults = {'a': 1}` while the file contains `{'a': '2'}`, the result will be `settings.a == 2` (`int`)
- whereas if `defaults = {'a': 1}` while the file contains `{'a': 'string'}`, the Settings' constructor will raise an exception

## Computed settings Hooks
After reading items from defaults, file, env, the consrtuctor can call hoooks to add custom computed items to the settings object.
- This can be handy to produce new items which are mere functions of the stored ones.
- Or it can be useful to add to the settings object complex configuration items (i.e. not serializable to strings).
- Computed settings are not persisted when updating the settings object.

# Usage
## basic usage, just defaults:
```python
from prettysettings import Settings
settings = Settings(defaults = {'option1': 1, 'option2': 'myoption'})
print(settings.option1) # output 1
print(settings.option2) # output 'myoption'
```
## load and update from and to file

Say you have `settings.json` containing:
```json
{
"option1": 2,
"option2": "my_new_option"
}
```
then:
```python
from prettysettings import Settings
settings = Settings(defaults = {'option1': 1, 'option2': 'myoption'}, filename='./settings.json')
print(settings.option1) # output 2
print(settings.option2) # output 'my_new_option'

# whereas
settings = Settings(defaults = {'option1': 1, 'option2': 3}, filename='./settings.json')
# raises an exception for type incompatibility among option2 in defaults and in file.

```

About filename:
- if filename does not exists it is skipped and Settings object is created with defaults
- this allows to create settings from defaults > updating them > persisting them to file even if it didn't exist at creation time

Say `settings.json` does not exists:
```python
from prettysettings import Settings
settings = Settings(defaults = {'option1': 1, 'option2': 'myoption'}, filename='./settings.json')

settings.update( {'option2': 'my_new_option'}, persist=True)

```
will produce `settings.json` containing:
```json
{
"option1": 1,
"option2": "my_new_option"
}
```

## Computed settings Hooks

```python
from prettysettings import Settings

cshooks = {
'computedoption': lambda settings: 'hey this is computed with {}!!'.format(settings.option2)
}

settings = Settings(defaults= {'option1': 1, 'option2': 'myoption'}, computed_settings_hooks=cshooks)
print(settings.option1) # output 1
print(settings.option2) # output 'myoption'
print(settings.computedoption) # output 'hey this is computed with myoption!!'
```

**Hint**: if you have more hooks with dependencies with one another, just wrap whem within an OrderedDict to be sure they will be executed in the correct order:

```python
from collections import OrderedDict
from prettysettings import Settings

cshooks = OrderedDict([
('computedoption', lambda settings: 'hey this is computed with {}!! '.format(settings.option2)),
('computedoption2', lambda settings: settings.option1 * settings.computedoption)
])

settings = Settings(defaults= {'option1': 2, 'option2': 'myoption'}, computed_settings_hooks=cshooks)
print(settings.option1) # output 2
print(settings.option2) # output 'myoption'
print(settings.computedoption) # output 'hey this is computed with myoption!!'
print(settings.computedoption2) # output 'hey this is computed with myoption!! hey this is computed with myoption!!'
```

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