Re: [Configobj-develop] default values not being set with validation.

[Chris S. <so...@st...>]

Hi Gary,

Are you saying that you have inspected the Python object (self.config) and, after validation, it does not have those keys?

Or are you saying that you later call self.config.write() and those keys are not written out?

Those are two different things.  If the Python object has those keys (which it should), the values will be the defaults.

Chris


On 9/6/11 7:13 PM, gar...@th... wrote:
> Thanks for the quick responses!
>
> Unfortunately, that is not what happens.
>
> If I remove the lines so that my config_file looks like this:
>   [Environment]
> name = 'qapod5'
>
> and have the same configspec, the defaults are not put in.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Foord [mailto:fuz...@vo...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 5:19 PM
> To: con...@li...
> Cc: Siaw, Gary (Professional)
> Subject: Re: [Configobj-develop] default values not being set with
> validation.
>
> Hey Gary,
>
> Chris is correct - those values are not "missing", they exist but are
> set to the empty string. Remove them and the validation defaults should
> be filled in. Alternatively write your own validation functions that
> interpret and empty value as missing and uses the default instead.
>
> The validate module documentation shows how to write validation
> functions.
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 6 Sep 2011, at 23:01, Chris Sontag wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> I'm usually just a lurker on this list, but try taking "services" and
> "deploy_sso" out of your config file.  Right now they are set to empty
> strings.  If they come out, they will be filled with default values (in
> self.config) after your validate() call.
>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On 9/6/11 5:36 PM, gar...@th... wrote:
>>> Hello there, thanks for this library tool!
>>>
>>> Im trying to incorporate configobj-4.7.2 into an object to read
> configuration files with default values. The configobj can load the
> configurationfile fine, but the configspec default values are not being
> read in, and therefore validation fails.
>>> not sure if my code is at fault.
>>>
>>>
>>> What steps will reproduce the problem?
>>> 1.
>>> Im loading code like this:
>>>          config = ConfigObj(     infile=self.config_file,
>>>                                  configspec=self.config_spec,
>>>                                  encoding='latin-1',
>>>                                  create_empty=True,
>>>                                  unrepr=True,
>>>                                  stringify=True,
>>>                                  )
>>> 2.
>>> my config_file looks like this:
>>> [Environment]
>>> name = 'qapod5'
>>> services =
>>> email =
>>> deploy_sso =
>>>
>>> 3.
>>> my configspec looks like this:
>>> [Environment]
>>> name = string()
>>> services = list(default=list(''))
>>> email = string(default="tes...@th...")
>>> deploy_sso = boolean(default=False)
>>>
>>> 4. my validator code looks like this:
>>> val = Validator()
>>> test = self.config.validate(val, preserve_errors=True, copy=True)
>>>
>>>
>>> with the configspec above, i would expect that the loaded configobj
> would have the defaults after being  validated with the Validator.
> However, i get this error:
>>>
>>> ValidateError: [([u'Environment'], 'deploy_sso', VdtTypeError(u'the
> value "" is of the wrong type.',)), ([u'Environment'], 'services',
> VdtTypeError(u'the value "" is of the wrong type.',))]
>>>
>>>
>>> Is my configspec not written properly?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
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