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Config-Multi-0.12
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/ Config::Multi

NAME

Config::Multi - load multiple config files.

SYNOPSIS

use Config::Multi;
use File::Spec;
use FindBin;

my $dir = File::Spec->catfile( $FindBin::Bin , 'conf' );

# prefix, extension and unicode is optional. 
my $cm 
       = Config::Multi->new({
           dir => $dir , 
           app_name    => 'myapp' , 
           prefix      => 'web' , 
           extension   => 'yml' ,
           unicode     => 1 # unicode option
       });
my $config = $cm->load();
my $loaded_config_files = $cm->files;

DESCRIPTION

This module load multiple config files using Config::Any. You can specify directory and put into your config files!

I create this module because I want to load not only loading multiple config files but also switch config files depend on interface I am using. like, I want to load web.yml only for web interface configuration and cli.yml for only for client interface configuration. let me explain step by step at EXAMPLE section.

EXAMPLE

your configuration files

This is under your ~/myapp/conf/ and have yaml configuration in each files. you can specify the directory using dir option.

.
|-- env-prefix.yml
|-- env.yml
|-- myapp.yml
|-- myapp_boin.yml
|-- myapp_local.yml
|-- myapp_oppai.yml
|-- never_load.yml
|-- web_myapp.yml
|-- web_myapp_cat.yml
|-- web_myapp_dog.yml
`-- web_myapp_local.yml

switchable

when you set app_name as 'myapp' and prefix as 'jobqueue' then below files are loaded

|-- myapp.yml
|-- myapp_boin.yml
|-- myapp_local.yml
|-- myapp_oppai.yml

${app_name}.yml or ${app_name}_*.yml

when you set app_name as 'myapp' and prefix as 'web' then below files are loaded

|-- myapp.yml
|-- myapp_boin.yml
|-- myapp_local.yml
|-- myapp_oppai.yml
|-- web_myapp.yml
|-- web_myapp_cat.yml
|-- web_myapp_dog.yml
`-- web_myapp_local.yml

${prefix}_${myapp}.yml ${prefix}_${myapp}_*.yml

YES! you can switch config files depend on what you set for app_name and prefix.

overwrite rule.

there is also overwriting rule. there are three steps for this.

_local.yml file overwrite the other config setting

${prefix}_${app_name}_local.yml
${app_name}_local.yml

${prefix}_ files overwrite ${app_name} config setting

${app_name}.yml, ${app_name}_*.yml  (not include ${app_name}_local.yml)

app config.

${prefix}_${myapp}.yml ${prefix}_${myapp}_*.yml

$ENV setting

instead of ${prefix}_${app_name}_local.yml , you can specify the path with $ENV{CONFIG_MULTI_PREFIX_MYAPP}

instead of ${app_name}_local.yml , you can specify the path with $ENV{CONFIG_MULTI_MYAPP}

note. PREFIX = uc($prefix); MYAPP = uc($app_name)

unicode option

if you set true to unicode option, return $config of flagged UTF-8. in the future, this option will also be posiible to default. at least I would hope so.

METHODS

new

constructor SEE CONSTRUCTOR ARGUMENT section.

load

load config files and return config data.

files

get array references of loaded config files. You can use this method after call load() method.

CONSTRUCTOR ARGUMENT

app_name

your application name. use [a-z]+ for format.

prefix

prefix name . use [a-z]+ for format. this is optional. if you did not set. only application config is loaded(include appname_local.yml if you have. )

dir

specify directory where your config files are located.

extension

you must specify extension for your config files. default is yml.

SEE ALSO

Config::Any

AUTHOR

Tomohiro Teranishi <tomohiro.teranishi@gmail.com>

THANKS

vkgtaro

COPYRIGHT

This module is copyright 2008 Tomohiro Teranishi.

LICENSE

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