Additional config formats

[jayvdb]

Currently moban only supports yaml as the config format.

anytemplate uses anyconfig to support:

• JSON
• ini
• pickle
• xml
• Java properties
• B-sh
• yaml
• toml
• configobj

It would probably make sense to define a plugin layer for input data formats, keep the existing yaml as a native plugin, and add a 'anyconfig' plugin which provides supports for all the other formats.

I can see a lot of potential for growth by adding specific file formats, like .spec , and more complex data structures like SPDX license metadata files (so that templates do not need to load large data files).

[chfw]

Cannot agree more!

[chfw]

With the new implementation, a new feature emerges: any data file can override any data file. for example:

child.yaml:

overrides: parent.json
...

or

child.json:

overrides: parent.yaml
....

[chfw]

and new data loader can be added in the same way as jinja2 plugins.

[chfw]

all other data config could be written as a built-in module if no external dependencies or as a moban plugin. Hence, case closed.