[Rest2web-develop] Repeated Section

[Michael F. <mi...@pc...>]

Hello All,

I've just committed changes to ConfigObj that implement repeated
sections using the '__many__' section name in the configspec.

The actual code is about twenty lines - plus nearly 70 lines of tests.

If a section of a configspec (including the root section) has a
sub-section called '__many__' - then *this* is the configspec that will
be applied to *all* sub-sections in that section. The '__many__'
sub-section can itself have nested sections, including nested '__many__'
sections.

E.g.

[cats]

   [[__many__]]
    age = float(0, default=5)
    height = float(default=0.25)
    mood = option(grumpy, aloof, vain, default=aloof)
   [[[description]]]
       coat = option(brown, grey, black, "tortoise shell", default=brown)
   [[[fleas]]]
       [[[[__many__]]]]
       bloodsucker = boolean(default=True)
       children = integer(0, default=1000)

The above configspec creates a section called 'cats'. Any subsection in
'cats' must match the '__many__' configspec. So each cat has several
attributes (including a subsection called 'description'). Each cat can
also optionally have many fleas....

Because all the checks have defaults - if you create any empty cats and
then call validate, the default values will be filled in.

Nicola - you will need to properly format the doctests - as well as
check that I haven't broken anything and that it works as advertised.

(By the way floats become numbers like 3.000000001 when converted
backwards and forward. Decimal would be better - but is a Python 2.4
module. This might not matter.)

Best Regards,


Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python