• NAME
• VERSION
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• ATTRIBUTES
  • default_section => str (default: GLOBAL)
  • enable_directive => bool (default: 1)
  • enable_encoding => bool (default: 1)
  • enable_quoting => bool (default: 1)
  • enable_bracket => bool (default: 1)
  • enable_brace => bool (default: 1)
  • enable_tilde => bool (default: 1)
  • allow_encodings => array
  • disallow_encodings => array
  • enable_expr => bool (default: 0)
  • allow_directives => array
  • disallow_directives => array
  • allow_bang_only => bool (default: 1)
  • allow_duplicate_key => bool (default: 1)
  • ignore_unknown_directive => bool (default: 0)
  • warn_perl => bool (default: 0)
• METHODS
  • new(%attrs) => obj
  • $reader->read_file($filename) => obj
  • $reader->read_string($str) => obj
• HOMEPAGE
• SOURCE
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR
• CONTRIBUTOR
• CONTRIBUTING
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
• BUGS

NAME

Config::IOD - Read and write IOD/INI configuration files

VERSION

This document describes version 0.353 of Config::IOD (from Perl distribution Config-IOD), released on 2022-05-02.

SYNOPSIS

 use Config::IOD;
 my $iod = Config::IOD->new(
     # list of known attributes, with their default values
     # default_section     => 'GLOBAL',
     # enable_directive    => 1,
     # enable_encoding     => 1,
     # enable_quoting      => 1,
     # enable_backet       => 1,
     # enable_brace        => 1,
     # allow_encodings     => undef, # or ['base64','json',...]
     # disallow_encodings  => undef, # or ['base64','json',...]
     # allow_directives    => undef, # or ['include','merge',...]
     # disallow_directives => undef, # or ['include','merge',...]
     # allow_bang_only     => 1,
     # enable_expr         => 0,
     # allow_duplicate_key => 1,
     # ignore_unknown_directive => 0,
 );

Read IOD/INI document from a file or string, return Config::IOD::Document object:

 my $doc = $iod->read_file("/path/to/some.iod");
 my $doc = $iod->read_string("...");

See Config::IOD::Document for methods available for $doc.

DESCRIPTION

This module is a round-trip parser for IOD configuration format (IOD is an INI-like format with more precise specification, some extra features, and 99% compatible with typical INI format). Round-trip means all whitespaces and comments are preserved, so you get byte-by-byte equivalence if you dump back the parsed document into string.

Aside from parsing, methods for modifying IOD documents (add/delete sections & keys, etc) are also provided.

If you only need to read IOD configuration files, you might want to use Config::IOD::Reader instead.

ATTRIBUTES

default_section => str (default: GLOBAL)

If a key line is specified before any section line, this is the section that the key will be put in.

enable_directive => bool (default: 1)

If set to false, then directives will not be parsed. Lines such as below will be considered a regular comment:

 ;!include foo.ini

and lines such as below will be considered a syntax error (regardless of the allow_bang_only setting):

 !include foo.ini

NOTE: Turning this setting off violates IOD specification.

enable_encoding => bool (default: 1)

If set to false, then encoding notation will be ignored and key value will be parsed as verbatim. Example:

 name = !json null

With enable_encoding turned off, value will not be undef but will be string with the value of (as Perl literal) "!json null".

NOTE: Turning this setting off violates IOD specification.

enable_quoting => bool (default: 1)

If set to false, then quotes on key value will be ignored and key value will be parsed as verbatim. Example:

 name = "line 1\nline2"

With enable_quoting turned off, value will not be a two-line string, but will be a one line string with the value of (as Perl literal) "line 1\\nline2".

NOTE: Turning this setting off violates IOD specification.

enable_bracket => bool (default: 1)

If set to false, then JSON literal array will be parsed as verbatim. Example:

 name = [1,2,3]

With enable_bracket turned off, value will not be a three-element array, but will be a string with the value of (as Perl literal) "[1,2,3]".

NOTE: Turning this setting off violates IOD specification.

enable_brace => bool (default: 1)

If set to false, then JSON literal object (hash) will be parsed as verbatim. Example:

 name = {"a":1,"b":2}

With enable_brace turned off, value will not be a hash with two pairs, but will be a string with the value of (as Perl literal) '{"a":1,"b":2}'.

NOTE: Turning this setting off violates IOD specification.

enable_tilde => bool (default: 1)

If set to true (the default), then value that starts with ~ (tilde) will be assumed to use !path encoding, unless an explicit encoding has been otherwise specified.

Example:

 log_dir = ~/logs  ; ~ will be resolved to current user's home directory

With enable_tilde turned off, value will still be literally ~/logs.

NOTE: Turning this setting off violates IOD specification.

allow_encodings => array

If defined, set list of allowed encodings. Note that if disallow_encodings is also set, an encoding must also not be in that list.

Also note that, for safety reason, if you want to enable expr encoding, you'll also need to set enable_expr to 1.

disallow_encodings => array

If defined, set list of disallowed encodings. Note that if allow_encodings is also set, an encoding must also be in that list.

Also note that, for safety reason, if you want to enable expr encoding, you'll also need to set enable_expr to 1.

enable_expr => bool (default: 0)

Whether to enable expr encoding. By default this is turned off, for safety. Please see "EXPRESSION" for more details.

allow_directives => array

If defined, only directives listed here are allowed. Note that if disallow_directives is also set, a directive must also not be in that list.

disallow_directives => array

If defined, directives listed here are not allowed. Note that if allow_directives is also set, a directive must also be in that list.

allow_bang_only => bool (default: 1)

Since the mistake of specifying a directive like this:

 !foo

instead of the correct:

 ;!foo

is very common, the spec allows it. This reader, however, can be configured to be more strict.

allow_duplicate_key => bool (default: 1)

If set to 0, you can forbid duplicate key, e.g.:

 [section]
 a=1
 a=2

or:

 [section]
 a=1
 b=2
 c=3
 a=10

In traditional INI file, to specify an array you specify multiple keys. But when there is only a single key, it is unclear if the value is a single-element array or a scalar. You can use this setting to avoid this array/scalar ambiguity in config file and force user to use JSON encoding or bracket to specify array:

 [section]
 a=[1,2]

NOTE: Turning this setting off violates IOD specification.

ignore_unknown_directive => bool (default: 0)

If set to true, will not die if an unknown directive is encountered. It will simply be ignored as a regular comment.

NOTE: Turning this setting on violates IOD specification.

warn_perl => bool (default: 0)

Emit warning if configuration contains key line like these:

 foo=>"bar"
 foo => bar,

which suggest user is assuming configuration is in Perl format instead of INI.

METHODS

new(%attrs) => obj

$reader->read_file($filename) => obj

Read IOD configuration from a file. Return Config::IOD::Document instance. Die on errors.

$reader->read_string($str) => obj

Read IOD configuration from a string. Return Config::IOD::Document instance. Die on errors.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Config-IOD.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Config-IOD.

SEE ALSO

IOD - specification

Config::IOD::Reader - if you just need to read a configuration file, you should probably use this module instead. It's lighter, faster, and has a simpler interface.

IOD::Examples - sample documents

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

 % prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla plugin and/or Pod::Weaver::Plugin. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

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

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Config-IOD

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.