fix: missing file handling

README.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ When creating your config, you can specify at least one of those two attributes:
 > 💡 When supplying both, if the env var is not set, it will use `PATH`.
 
 User constructs will be expanded.
-If the file does not exist it will be created (not parent directories though).
+If the file does not exist it will be created.
 You can specify the file mode via `Config.FILE_MODE`.
 
 The config can be loaded from multiple files, see [fnmatch](https://docs.python.org/3/library/fnmatch.html) for syntax.

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "zenconfig"
-version = "1.4.0"
+version = "1.4.1"
 description = "Simple configuration loader for python."
 authors = ["Gabriel Pajot <gab@les-cactus.co>"]
 license = "MIT"

tests/test_read.py

@@ -30,3 +30,9 @@ class Cfg(ReadOnlyConfig):
             SCHEMA = schema
 
         assert Cfg.load() == expected
+
+    def test_should_not_fail_if_file_does_not_exist(self):
+        class Cfg(ReadOnlyConfig, dict):
+            PATH = "test_config.json"
+
+        assert Cfg.load() == {}

zenconfig/read.py

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ def load(cls: Type[C]) -> C:
         """Load the configuration class from file(s)."""
         dict_config: Dict[str, Any] = {}
         for path in cls._paths():
+            if not path.exists():
+                continue
             fmt = cls._format(path)
             logger.debug(
                 "using %s to load %s from %s",

zenconfig/write.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ def save(self) -> None:
         path = paths[0]
         if not path.exists():
             logger.debug("creating file at path %s", path)
+            path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
             path.touch(mode=self.FILE_MODE)
         fmt = self._format()
         logger.debug(