appconfig is a contrib module, for which we don't keep docs around, nor promise backward compatibility (although it's a pretty simple module)... there's absolutely nothing to be documented, the scaffolding app uses pretty much all the features ^_^
On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 4:46:46 PM UTC+1, Andrew Buchan wrote: > > Hi Nico, > > Thanks for that! > > I suppose this should really go into the web2py book, we can't expect > people to read the source for something as basic (i.e. not an advanced > feature or special use case) as this. > > I'm happy to go into github and create a pull request, I'm just not sure > where we should place this. > > Perhaps we should add a section at the top of: > > http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/13/deployment-recipes > > Or maybe it requires a section of its own? > > I also think something should be mentioned in: > > http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#Workflow > > > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Nico de Groot <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> From the source: >> >> appconfig.py: >> >> Read from configuration files easily without hurting performance. >> >> USAGE: >> During development you can load a config file either in .ini or .json >> format (by default app/private/appconfig.ini or app/private/appconfig.json) >> The result is a dict holding the configured values. Passing reload=True >> is meant only for development: in production, leave reload to False and all >> values will be cached >> >> from gluon.contrib.appconfig import AppConfig >> myconfig = AppConfig(path_to_configfile, reload=False) >> print myconfig['db']['uri'] >> >> The returned dict can walk with "dot notation" an arbitrarely nested dict >> >> . print myconfig.take('db.uri') >> >> You can even pass a cast function, i.e. >> >> . print myconfig.take('auth.expiration', cast=int) >> >> Once the value has been fetched (and casted) it won't change until the >> process is restarted (or reload=True is passed). >> >> Please search in this group for more info. >> >> Nico de Groot >> >> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/1sBjyKQSY-U/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
