Support for Config files

config.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+output = "./test"
+stylesheet = "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/water.css@2/out/water.css"
+title = "Test"
+lang = "fr"

package.json

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     "@types/node": "^20.5.9",
     "gh-pages": "^6.0.0",
     "prettier": "^3.0.3",
+    "toml": "^3.0.0",
     "typescript": "^5.2.2"
   },
   "dependencies": {

src/helpers/arg-map.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ export interface CLIArgument {
 }
 
 export const CLIArgumentMap: Array<CLIArgument> = [
+  {
+    name: "Configuration",
+    key: "config",
+    long_form: "config",
+    short_form: "c",
+    description: "Path to configuration file.",
+    value: "path",
+    default: "",
+  },
   {
     name: "Output",
     key: "outputDirectory",

src/main.ts

@@ -6,13 +6,34 @@ import {
   MarkdownProcessingStrategy,
 } from "./utils/file-processor";
 import { Command } from "./helpers";
+import toml from "toml";
 
 async function main() {
   Command.parse(process.argv);
   const options = Command.opts();
   const inputList = Command.args;
   const processor = new FileProcessor();
 
+  // check if config flag is used
+  if (options.config) {
+    // Read the configuration file
+    const configData = await FileIO.readFile(options.config);
+    if (!configData) {
+      console.error("Error: Unable to read configuration file.");
+      process.exit(1);
+    }
+
+    // parse the configuration file
+    const config = toml.parse(configData);
+
+    // override the options with the configuration file
+    Object.keys(config).forEach((key) => {
+      if (key in options) {
+        options[key] = config[key];
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
   const meta = [
     { key: "author", value: options.author },
     { key: "description", value: options.description },
@@ -60,7 +81,7 @@ async function main() {
       for (let i = 0; i < files.length; ++i) {
         const htmlDoc = new TILvertHTMLDocument();
         htmlDoc.setTitle(options.title);
-        htmlDoc.setLanguage(options.language);
+        htmlDoc.setLanguage(options.lang);
         htmlDoc.addStylesheet(options.stylesheet);
         meta.forEach((tag) => {
           if (tag.value) {