Re: [Configobj-develop] Validation is slow

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

  On 27/08/2010 10:47, Tom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> want i want is a configobj only with the spec. Then i want to use this
> object to validate a simple dict and i want to use the same configobj
> ever time i have to validate a dict.
> Actually i create a new configobj every time i want to validate a dict.
> That's very slow.
I can imagine.

> How can i do this?
>
Did you try my suggestion of reading the configspec into a ConfigObj 
instance (once) and then using the validate library directly to do your 
validation?

All the best,

Michael Foord

> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:26 +0300, Michael Foord wrote:
>> On 25/08/2010 09:47, Tom wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i have a configspec with about 200 lines and validate a simple dict with
>>> about 5 key/value pairs.
>>>
>>> For validation of the dict, i create a new config-obj with the config
>>> spec (and copy=True), merge the dict into the new config and run the
>>> validate() method.
>>> But this is very slow (on an embedded device (400 Mhz)). How can i speed
>>> up this process? Is it possible to validate only the dict without all
>>> the other stuff?
>> You could use the validate library directly. ConfigObj will attempt to
>> validate against the whole configspec, but you could pull the keys out
>> of the configspec / dict and only validate against rules you actually
>> need (I assume this is your intent?).
>>
>> The documentation for validate can be found at:
>>
>>       http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/validate.html
>>
>> You may first need to read your configspec into a ConfigObj instance.
>> The correct way to do this is:
>>
>>       from configobj import ConfigObj
>>       spec = ConfigObj(filename, list_values=False, _inspec=True)
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Michael Foord
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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