NAME
Configd::Syntax::Spaced - Config files that are a directive, some whitespace and a value.
VERSION
version 0.002
SYNOPSIS
package Configd::Language::spaced_example;
use parent qw{Configd::Syntax::Spaced};
sub files { return ( { path => '/etc/example.conf', mode => 0o644 } ) }
sub units { return ('example.service') }
sub repeats { my ( $self, $key ) = @_; return $key eq 'listen' }DESCRIPTION
Four of the files here are the same shape:
Syslog yes
Canonicalization relaxed/simpleopendkim, opendmarc, redis and chrony all write configuration this way -- a directive, whitespace, and the rest of the line -- and differ only in which directives may be said twice. One reader and one writer between them, rather than four that drift apart.
A language in this shape subclasses this rather than Configd::Language, and says only what is its own: its files, its units, and which of its directives may be said more than once.
It lives under Configd::Syntax:: rather than Configd::Language:: because Configd finds languages by looking for modules under the latter, and a base class put there would be offered as a language somebody could adopt.
NAME
Configd::Syntax::Spaced - config files that are a directive, some whitespace and a value.
METHODS
$language->parse($text)
The directives in a fragment. Comments and blank lines come back as text with no key, so they keep their place in a file that is not merged.
$language->emit($directives)
The file those directives make.
Written as directive value, one space, rather than reproducing whatever column alignment the original had. Alignment is a property of a file somebody maintained by hand, and this file is generated from several of them.
SEE ALSO
Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/teodesian/perl-configd/issues
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.
AUTHORS
Current Maintainers:
George S. Baugh <george@troglodyne.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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