Re: [Configobj-develop] Optional Sections?

[pisymbol . <pis...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Sumit's Mailing Lists
<li...@ba...> wrote:
> I've been looking through the docs and StackOverflow and I'm still a
> little stumped on this. Can I have an optional section in my config
> specification? For example, say I had this as my configspec:
>
>     config_specification = """
> [General]
>
> sample_rate = float
>
> [Data]
>   [[__many__]]
>     type = option('sense.xml')
>       [[[Identifier]]]
>         type = option("name", "mac", "uuid")
>         adapter = string(default='')
>         id   = string(default='')
>         file = string(default='')
>       [[[Location]]]
>         type = option("virtual", "gps")
>         longitude = string(default='')
>         latitude = string(default='')
>         altitude = string(default='')
>         speed = string(default='')
>         climb = string(default='')
>         track = string(default='')
>         longutide_error = string(default='')
>         latitude_error = string(default='')
>         altitude_error = string(default='')
>         speed_error = string(default='')
>         climb_track = string(default='')
>         track_error = string(default='')
> """
>
> Is there a way to make [[[Locaiton]]] optional, so it can be missing and
> still pass validation (assuming that I do validation like so):
>

Why not just make it non-fatal?

for (section_list, key, _) in flatten_errors(config, test):
   if key == 'Location':
     pass

etc.

-aps