EasyConf

Easy file-based and environment configuration.

Usage

First create a Config object:

config = easyconf.Config('config.yaml')

Then reference a configuration variable as an attribute of this object:

some_variable = config.SOME_VARIABLE()

At runtime, EasyConf will try to each variable from the following sources in order:

1. A matching environment variable
2. A matching variable within the configuration file
3. The default attribute (if no attribute is provided, an easyconf.config.RequiredConfigVarMissing exception will be raised)

Config file generation

If the Config file doesn't exist yet and the file location is writable, EasyConf will generate it using the initial values and commented default values defined in each configuration variable.

If the configuration file is within a git repository it will also be added to the .gitignore file.

Don't hide configuration variables within conditional statements, load them at the top of a module so they can be generated regardless.

If you don't want file generation for non-existant configuration, use generate=False when instantiating the Config object.

Example Django configuration

import easyconf

config = easyconf.Config('myproject.yaml')

DEBUG = config.DEBUG(default=False)
DATABASES = {'default': config.DATABASE(
    default='postgres:///myproject',
    cast=easyconf.dict_or_url,
)}
SECRET_KEY = config.SECRET_KEY(initial=easyconf.random_text_generator(60))

Configuration Variable options

default

The default value for the variable if it is not provided in the environment or in the configuration file.

initial

A value or callable used to set the initial value of a variable in the configuration file.

help

Help text to use in the configuration file for this variable.

cast

A callable to convert an incoming value (from the environment or default value) to the correct Python type.

Set the cast_from_config attribute of this callable to True if it is safe to cast from the configuration file as well.

Config Object options

default_files

A file or list of files to attempt to read configuration variables from. If multiple files are provided, only the first one found will be used.

If none of the provided files are found, the first one in a writable location will be created and populated automatically.

file_env_var

An environment variable which could be used to specify the configuration file path.

If provided and an environment variable matches, this overrides any default_files specified.

generate

Whether to generate a new config file if none of the default_files can be loaded. Defaults to True.

Helper Modules

easyconf.dict_or_url

Expand url strings defined in django-environ into dictionaries. For example:

>>> import easyconf
>>> easyconf.dict_or_url('mysql:///abc')
{'NAME': 'abc', 'USER': '', 'PASSWORD': '', 'HOST': '', 'PORT': '', 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql'}

This will also cast url strings coming from the configuration file.

easyconf.random_text_generator

Creates a function that can be called to securely generate a random text string of a predefined length (containing base64 characters).

Useful for the initial configuration variable option.

>>> import easyconf
>>> gen = easyconf.random_text_generator(20)
>>> gen()
'sYw0D/7xjXqxfCyUdHqr'
>>> gen()
'ig1Z1n+mFLt+qYNOmD6I'