Re: [naviserver-devel] Proposal: just an idea about config syntax

[Jeff R. <dv...@di...>]

Vlad Seryakov wrote:

I like the general look and that it can be implemented in pure tcl 
(heck, even by just sourcing the implementation at the top of your 
current config).

> it may look like this (still Tcl)
> 
> section "fastpath" {
>      cache                   false
>      cachemaxsize            5120000
>      cachemaxentry           512000
>      mmap                    false
> }
> 
> section "server/${servername}" {
>      connsperthread          0
>      flushcontent            false
>      maxconnections          100
>      maxthreads              10
>      minthreads              0
>      threadtimeout           120
> }

Alot of the section names are heirarchical too so could this concept be 
taken further?  e.g.,

server "server1" {
     directoryfile index.html
     pageroot      /root
     section "tcl" {
         library   /root/server1/lib/tcl
     }
     section "modules" {
         nslog  ${bindir}/nslog.so
     }
}



> As you can see this is Tcl command section
> 
> proc section { name args } {
> 
>     ns_section ns/$name
>     foreach { key val } $args {
>        ns_param $key $val
>     }
> }

It would need to be uplevel-ed if variable expansion is to take place 
but that's pretty minor.

-J

> 
> But config looks like more 21 century and more structured and easier to 
> read. Very similar to lighttpd by the way.
> 
>