Re: [Rest2web-develop] "none" and "multiple" checks are no more :-)

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

Nicola Larosa wrote:
> configobj.py
> ------------
> 
> Actually added the RepeatSectionError class. ;-)
> 

Oops *blush*.

There's also another change I claimed to have made that I should
actually do :-)

> validate.py
> -----------
> 
> Deleted the "none" and "multiple" checks, and good riddance, I'd say. ;-)
> 
> Added the None value in Validation.check: now None is an admissible value
> for all checks. When specified in the defaults, it affords an easy way to
> omit a key from the config without having a real default, making it
> effectively optional.
> 

Cool. Nice one.

I did some more work on the docs, but still not finished. I need to look
over the 'final' implementation - particularly for validate.

As always your proofreading will be appreciated. Same applies to module
docstrings.

I'm going to prepare a release based on this...


> 
> It currently happens that if a section has only scalars with defaults, and
> __many__ subsections, it may be omitted from the config, making it optional
> too. I like it that way. :-)
> 
> I also updated the validate.txt doc, deleting mentions of the "none" and
> "multiple" checks, and adding a mention of None as an admissible value for
> all checks.
> 
> I've been able to complete my use case. I now have a good configspec, and
> both a complete and (very) minimal config that comply with the configspec.
> I'm satisfied with the results, and have no further feature requests. ;-D
> 
> The real test will happen when I integrate it in the code, but that will
> have to wait some time. I don't expect problems, apart from the fact that
> currently config is traversed with dot (attribute) notation, and all uses
> will have to be converted to dict notation.
> 

Ok - adding attribute access would be easy (ConfigObj3 has it). I'd
rather not have it as a feature (I think dictionary notation is more
appropriate; members are members, not attributes) - but writing a
wrapper class would be simple..... (Better to switch to the new way
though..)


All the best,


Fuzzy
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