The Ini/Config/Conf reader library is a lightweight .ini file parser for DotNet.

Nuget

PM> Install-Package Proxfield.Text.Ini

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How

The Ini files are commom type of document used to store key par values into section, it has wide adoption on confguration files, such as the example:

; this is just a comentary
[owner]
name = John Doe
organization = Acme Widgets Inc.

On the case above, the owner is a section. A section is composed of one or more key-par value, in this case name and organization.

Complex objects are handled in a tree format way, everytime a section (or object) has inside of it another section (object) it is displayed as object.propertyObject format.

var user = new User(){
    Email = "jose@outlook.com",
    Password = "1234",
    Name = "Jose",
    UserName = "jose",
    Address = new Address()
    {
        City = "Sao Paulo",
        State = "Sao Paulo",
        Street = "St 10"
    }
}

We can see that the Address object becames the section User.Address, because it is inside the object User.

[User]
UserId=cd1093f4-395d-460a-b66c-0b62af0e3d17
Name=Jose
Email=jose@outlook.com
Password=1234
UserName=jose
[User.Address]
Street=St 10
City=Sao Paulo
State=Sao Paulo

Usage

Serializing object:

string iniContent = IniSerializer.SerializeObject<User>(user);

Deserializing object:

var user = IniSerializer.DeserializeObject<User>(iniContent);

Platform Support

Porxfield.Text.Ini is compiled for DotNet 6, soon there will versions available for other plataforms.

• DotNet 6
• DotNet 5

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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