ConfigFilesManager

A python module to a easy manage configs files for applications

Why?

This module help you to manage configurations files of python applications. So, you can check the value or type of a variable in configuration file, without to have write more code. You can check if a required variables is present or not. And then raise (or not) Exceptions.

Sample

For example if we have a config file like this:

[CONFIG]
# Configuration file
IP = 127.0.0.1
PORT = 27017
DB_NAME = CoreDatabase
INSTALL_PATH = /home/eamanu/dev/test_coremanagement
; timeout on milliseconds. 5000 ms = 5 seconds
TIMEOUT_DB_MS = 5000

If we want all the variables to be obligatory, we have to mark the variable like 'required'. Then, we have to say what is the type is the variable.

Our code is the next:

from configFilesManager import configFilesManager

schema = {'CONFIG': {'IP': {'type': 'str', 'required': True},
                        'TIMEOUT_DB_MS': {'type': 'int', 'required': True},
                        'PORT': {'type': 'int', 'required': True},
                        'DB_NAME': {'type': 'str', 'required': True},
                        'INSTALL_PATH': {'type': 'str', 'required': True}}}

config = 'path/to/config.ini'

cfm = configFilesManager(config, schema)
cfm.run_check()

If whole it's ok, you don't have catch any exception, but if some is bad you will have a Exception raised. You could access to the values of the configs parsed on cfm.parser_config_dict dict

Contribution

Please see CONTRIBUTE.md