NAME
Mojolicious::Plugin::Config - Perl-ish configuration plugin
SYNOPSIS
# myapp.conf
{
foo => "bar",
music_dir => app->home->rel_dir('music')
};
# Mojolicious
my $config = $self->plugin('Config');
# Mojolicious::Lite
my $config = plugin 'Config';
# foo.html.ep
%= $config->{foo}
# The configuration is available application wide
my $config = app->config;
# Everything can be customized with options
my $config = plugin Config => {file => '/etc/myapp.stuff'};DESCRIPTION
Mojolicious::Plugin::Config is a Perl-ish configuration plugin.
The application object can be accessed via $app or the app function, strict, warnings, utf8 and Perl 5.10 features are automatically enabled. You can extend the normal configuration file myapp.conf with mode specific ones like myapp.$mode.conf. A default configuration filename will be generated from the value of "moniker" in Mojolicious.
The code of this plugin is a good example for learning to build new plugins, you're welcome to fork it.
OPTIONS
Mojolicious::Plugin::Config supports the following options.
default
# Mojolicious::Lite
plugin Config => {default => {foo => 'bar'}};Default configuration, making configuration files optional.
ext
# Mojolicious::Lite
plugin Config => {ext => 'stuff'};File extension for generated configuration filenames, defaults to conf.
file
# Mojolicious::Lite
plugin Config => {file => 'myapp.conf'};
plugin Config => {file => '/etc/foo.stuff'};Full path to configuration file, defaults to the value of the MOJO_CONFIG environment variable or myapp.conf in the application home directory.
METHODS
Mojolicious::Plugin::Config inherits all methods from Mojolicious::Plugin and implements the following new ones.
load
$plugin->load($file, $conf, $app);Loads configuration file and passes the content to parse.
sub load {
my ($self, $file, $conf, $app) = @_;
...
return $self->parse($content, $file, $conf, $app);
}parse
$plugin->parse($content, $file, $conf, $app);Parse configuration file.
sub parse {
my ($self, $content, $file, $conf, $app) = @_;
...
return $hash;
}register
my $config = $plugin->register(Mojolicious->new);
my $config = $plugin->register(Mojolicious->new, {file => '/etc/app.conf'});Register plugin in Mojolicious application.