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Project goals
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The project aims to accomplish multiple goals.
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Standards unification
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The first goal is to allow easy integration of an application with multiple configuration standards, such as environment variables, dotenv files, and Docker Secrets files.
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:mod:`cfig` achieves it by allowing the developers of an application to specify where and how configuration values should be loaded from.
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.. code-block:: python
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import cfig
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import cfig.sources
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config = cfig.Configuration(
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sources=[
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cfig.sources.EnvironmentSource(),
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cfig.sources.EnvironmentSource(prefix="DEV" if __debug__ else "PROD"),
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...
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],
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)
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Developer-friendliness
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======================
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The second goal is to provide a simple and Pythonic interface for developers to define and consume their configuration.
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:mod:`cfig` tries to achieve that by employing decorators and functions to create a declarative interface.
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.. code-block:: python
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@config.required()
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def SECRET_TOKEN(val: str) -> str:
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"""
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The token used to encrypt messages. Keep it secret at all costs!
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"""
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if val.startswith("v1"):
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raise cfig.InvalidValueError("Old token, only v2 tokens are supported")
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elif not val.startswith("v2"):
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raise cfig.InvalidValueError("Unknown token version")
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else:
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return val
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.. code-block:: python
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from .mycfig import SECRET_TOKEN
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print(f"This is my secret token: {SECRET_TOKEN}. Don't mention it to anybody!")
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User-friendliness
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=================
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Another goal is to simplify deployments for system administrators, providing informative error messages and hints to the user configuring the application.
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:mod:`cfig` does that by providing a CLI displaying all possible configuration keys, their docstrings and their values.
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.. code-block:: python
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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config.cli()
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.. code-block:: console
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$ python -m mycfig
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===== Configuration =====
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SECRET_TOKEN → Required, but not set.
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The token used to encrypt messages. Keep it secret at all costs!
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===== End =====
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$ SECRET_TOKEN="v1:potato" python -m mycfig
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===== Configuration =====
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SECRET_TOKEN → Old token, only v2 tokens are supported
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The token used to encrypt messages. Keep it secret at all costs!
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===== End =====
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$ SECRET_TOKEN="v2:qwertyasdf" python -m mycfig
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===== Configuration =====
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SECRET_TOKEN = "v2:qwertyasdf"
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The token used to encrypt messages. Keep it secret at all costs!
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===== End =====
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Developer hints
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===============
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The last goal of :mod:`cfig` is having complete and useful typing, so that developer tools may provide correct and useful type hints on configuration values.
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:mod:`cfig` currently does that, albeit using a few hacks to hide the true nature of :term:`proxies <proxy>`.
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.. image:: example-typing.png
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