VERSION

version 0.065

DESCRIPTION

Config::JFDI is an implementation of Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader that exists outside of Catalyst.

Essentially, Config::JFDI will scan a directory for files matching a certain name. If such a file is found which also matches an extension that Config::Any can read, then the configuration from that file will be loaded.

Config::JFDI will also look for special files that end with a ``_local'' suffix. Files with this special suffix will take precedence over any other existing configuration file, if any. The precedence takes place by merging the local configuration with the ``standard'' configuration via Hash::Merge::Simple.

Finally, you can override/modify the path search from outside your application, by setting the <NAME>_CONFIG variable outside your application (where <NAME> is the uppercase version of what you passed to Config::JFDI->new).

SYNPOSIS

    use Config::JFDI;
    my $config = Config::JFDI->new(name => "my_application", path => "path/to/my/application");
    my $config_hash = $config->get;

This will look for something like (depending on what Config::Any will find):

    path/to/my/application/my_application_local.{yml,yaml,cnf,conf,jsn,json,...} AND
    path/to/my/application/my_application.{yml,yaml,cnf,conf,jsn,json,...}

... and load the found configuration information appropiately, with _local taking precedence.

You can also specify a file directly:

    my $config = Config::JFDI->new(file => "/path/to/my/application/my_application.cnf");

To later reload your configuration, fresh from disk:

    $config->reload;

Config::Loader

We are currently kicking around ideas for a next-generation configuration loader. The goals are:

    * A universal platform for configuration slurping and post-processing
    * Use Config::Any to do configuration loading
    * A sane API so that developers can roll their own loader according to the needs of their application
    * A friendly interface so that users can have it just DWIM
    * Host/application/instance specific configuration via _local and %ENV

Find more information and contribute at:

Roadmap: <http://sites.google.com/site/configloader/>

Mailing list: <http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/config-loader>

Behavior change of the 'file' parameter in 0.06

In previous versions, Config::JFDI would treat the file parameter as a path parameter, stripping off the extension (ignoring it) and globbing what remained against all the extensions that Config::Any could provide. That is, it would do this:

    Config::JFDI->new( file => 'xyzzy.cnf' );
    # Transform 'xyzzy.cnf' into 'xyzzy.pl', 'xyzzy.yaml', 'xyzzy_local.pl', ... (depending on what Config::Any could parse)

This is probably not what people intended. Config::JFDI will now squeak a warning if you pass 'file' through, but you can suppress the warning with 'no_06_warning' or 'quiet_deprecation'

    Config::JFDI->new( file => 'xyzzy.cnf', no_06_warning => 1 );
    Config::JFDI->new( file => 'xyzzy.cnf', quiet_deprecation => 1 ); # More general

If you *do* want the original behavior, simply pass in the file parameter as the path parameter instead:

    Config::JFDI->new( path => 'xyzzy.cnf' ); # Will work as before

METHODS

$config = Config::JFDI->new(...)

You can configure the $config object by passing the following to new:

    name                The name specifying the prefix of the configuration file to look for and 
                        the ENV variable to read. This can be a package name. In any case,
                        :: will be substituted with _ in <name> and the result will be lowercased.
                        To prevent modification of <name>, pass it in as a scalar reference.
    path                The directory to search in
    file                Directly read the configuration from this file. Config::Any must recognize
                        the extension. Setting this will override path
    no_local            Disable lookup of a local configuration. The 'local_suffix' option will be ignored. Off by default
    local_suffix        The suffix to match when looking for a local configuration. "local" By default
                        ("config_local_suffix" will also work so as to be drop-in compatible with C::P::CL)
    no_env              Set this to 1 to disregard anything in the ENV. The 'env_lookup' option will be ignored. Off by default
    env_lookup          Additional ENV to check if $ENV{<NAME>...} is not found
    driver              A hash consisting of Config:: driver information. This is passed directly through
                        to Config::Any
    install_accessor    Set this to 1 to install a Catalyst-style accessor as <name>::config
                        You can also specify the package name directly by setting install_accessor to it 
                        (e.g. install_accessor => "My::Application")
    substitute          A hash consisting of subroutines called during the substitution phase of configuration
                        preparation. ("substitutions" will also work so as to be drop-in compatible with C::P::CL)
                        A substitution subroutine has the following signature: ($config, [ $argument1, $argument2, ... ])
    path_to             The path to dir to use for the __path_to(...)__ substitution. If nothing is given, then the 'home'
                        config value will be used ($config->get->{home}). Failing that, the current directory will be used.
    default             A hash filled with default keys/values

Returns a new Config::JFDI object

$config_hash = Config::JFDI->open( ... )

As an alternative way to load a config, ->open will pass given arguments to ->new( ... ), then attempt to do ->load

Unlike ->get or ->load, if no configuration files are found, ->open will return undef (or the empty list)

This is so you can do something like:

    my $config_hash = Config::JFDI->open( "/path/to/application.cnf" ) or croak "Couldn't find config file!"

In scalar context, ->open will return the config hash, NOT the config object. If you want the config object, call ->open in list context:

    my ($config_hash, $config) = Config::JFDI->open( ... )

You can pass any arguments to ->open that you would to ->new

$config->get

$config->config

$config->load

Load a config as specified by ->new( ... ) and ENV and return a hash

These will only load the configuration once, so it's safe to call them multiple times without incurring any loading-time penalty

$config->found

Returns a list of files found

If the list is empty, then no files were loaded/read

$config->clone

Return a clone of the configuration hash using Clone

This will load the configuration first, if it hasn't already

$config->reload

Reload the configuration, examining ENV and scanning the path anew

Returns a hash of the configuration

$config->substitute( <value>, <value>, ... )

For each given <value>, if <value> looks like a substitution specification, then run the substitution macro on <value> and store the result.

There are three default substitutions (the same as Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader)

• "__HOME__" - replaced with "$c->path_to('')"
• "__path_to(foo/bar)__" - replaced with "$c->path_to('foo/bar')"
• "__literal(__FOO__)__" - leaves __FOO__ alone (allows you to use "__DATA__" as a config value, for example)

The parameter list is split on comma (",").

You can define your own substitutions by supplying the substitute option to ->new

AUTHOR

Robert Krimen <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Robert Krimen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.