NAME

Config::Path - Path-like config API with multiple file support, directory loading and arbitrary backends from Config::Any.

SYNOPSIS

use Config::Path;

my $conf = Config::Path->new(
    files => [ 't/conf/configA.yml', 't/conf/configB.yml' ]
);

# Or, if you want to load all files in a directory

my $dconf = Config::Path->new(
    directory => 'myapp/conf'
);

# If you *DON'T* want to convert empty hashes and arrays to undef
# (XML parsing will return <foo></foo> as {})
my $conf = Config::Path->new(
    convert_empty_to_undef => 0
);

DESCRIPTION

Config::Path is a Yet Another Config module with a few twists that were desired for an internal project:

Multiple files merged into a single, flat hash

Path-based configuration value retrieval

Support for loading all config files in a directory

Sane precedence for key collisions

Clean, simple implementation

Multiple-File Merging

If any of your config files contain the same keys, the "right" file wins, using Hash::Merge's RIGHT_PRECEDENT setting. In other words, later file's keys will have precedence over those loaded earlier.

Note that when a full directory of files are loaded the files are sorted via Perl's sort before merging so as to remove any amigiuity about the order in which they will be loaded.

Directory Slurping

If you specify a value for the directory attribute, rather than the files attribute then Config::Path will attempt to load all the files in the supplied directory via Config::Any. The files will be merged in alphabetical order so that there is no ambiguity in the event of a key collision. Files later in the alphabet will override keys of their predecessors.

Arrays

Arrays can be accessed with paths like foo/0/bar. Just use the array index to descend into that element. If you attempt to treat a hash like an array or an array like hash you will simply get undef back.

ATTRIBUTES

config_options

HashRef of options passed to Config::Any.

directory

A directory in which files should be searched for. Note that this option is mutually-exclusive to the files attribute. Only set one of them.

files

The list of files that will be parsed for this configuration. Note that this option is mutually-exclusive to the files attribute. Only set one of them.

convert_empty_to_undef

Defaults to true, if this option is set to false then entities fetched that are {} or [] will be kept in tact.

Otherwise Config::Path converts these to undef.

METHODS

add_file ($file)

Adds the supplied filename to the list of files that will be loaded. Note that adding a file after you've already loaded a config will not change anything. You'll need to call reload if you want to reread the configuration and include the new file.

clear_mask

Clear all values covered by mask.

fetch ($path)

Get a value from the config file. As per the name of this module, fetch takes a path argument in the form of foo/bar/baz. This is effectively a shorthand way of expressing a series of hash keys. Whatever value is on the end of the keys will be returned. As such, fetch might return undef, scalar, arrayref, hashref or whatever you've stored in the config file.

my $foo = $config->fetch('baz/bar/foo');

Note that leading slashes will be automatically stripped, just in case you prefer the idea of using them. They are effectively useless though.

mask ('path/to/value', 'newvalue')

Override the specified key to the specified value. Note that this only changes the path's value in this instance. It does not change the config file. This is useful for tests. Note that exists is used so setting a path to undef will not clear the mask. If you want to clear masks use clear_mask.

reload

Rereads the config files specified in files. Well, actually it just blows away the internal state of the config so that the next call will reload the configuration. Note that this also clears any masking you've done.

AUTHOR

Cory G Watson, <gphat at cpan.org>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Jay Shirley
Mike Eldridge

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Magazines.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

cpanm Config::Path

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Config::Path