Re: [Rest2web-develop] Repeated Section

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

Michael Foord wrote:
> 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 implied restriction here is that if you supply any other specs in
your configspec they will be ignored - and just the '__many__' one used.

This could be changed; either to raise an error - or to 'update' the
dictionary (was update around as a method of dictionaries in python 2.2
?) rather than replace it (so that the '__many__' and any additional
checks could be used).

I've done another minor commit to correct a couple of whitespace errors
in a docstring.

I'm now (again/still) working on getting the documentation up to date.

Regards,

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


> 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
> 
> 
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