Config::Locale - Load and merge locale-specific configuration files.

use Config::Locale;

my $locale = Config::Locale->new(
    identity => \@values,
    directory => $config_dir,
);

my $config = $locale->config();

This module takes an identity array, determines the permutations of the identity using Algorithm::Loops, loads configuration files using Config::Any, and finally combines the configurations using Hash::Merge.

So, given this setup:

Config::Locale->new(
    identity => ['db', '1', 'qa'],
);

The following configuration stems will be looked for (listed from least specific to most):

default
all.all.qa
all.1.all
all.1.qa
db.all.all
db.all.qa
db.1.all
db.1.qa
override

For each file found the contents will be parsed and then merged together to produce the final configuration hash. The hashes will be merged so that the most specific configuration file will take precedence over the least specific files. So, in the example above, "db.1.qa" values will overwrite values from "db.1.all".

The term stem comes from Config::Any, and means a filename without an extension.

The identity that configuration files will be loaded for. In a typical hostname-based configuration setup this will be the be the parts of the hostname that declare the class, number, and cluster that the current host identifies itself as. But, this could be any list of values.

The directory to load configuration files from. Defaults to the current directory.

The wildcard string to use when constructing the configuration filenames. Defaults to all. This may be explicitly set to undef wich will cause the wildcard string to not be added to the filenames at all.

A filename stem to load first, before all other stems.

Defaults to default. A relative path may be specified which will be assumed to be relative to "directory". If an absolute path is used then no change will be made.

Note that "prefix" and "suffix" are not applied to this stem.

A filename stem to load last, after all other stems.

Defaults to override. A relative path may be specified which will be assumed to be relative to "directory". If an absolute path is used then no change will be made.

Note that "prefix" and "suffix" are not applied to this stem.

If true, then any key that appears in a non-default configuration file must exist in the default configuration or an error will be thrown. Defaults to 0.

The character that will be used to separate the identity keys in the configuration filenames. Defaults to ..

An optional prefix that will be prepended to the configuration filenames.

An optional suffix that will be appended to the configuration filenames. While it may seem like the right place, you probably should not be using this to specify the extension of your configuration files. Config::Any automatically tries many various forms of extensions without the need to explicitly declare the extension that you are using.

Which algorithm used to determine, based on the identity, what configuration files to consider for inclusion.

The default, NESTED, keeps the order of the identity. This is most useful for identities that are derived from the name of a resource as resource names (such as hostnames of machines) typically have a defined structure.

PERMUTE finds configuration files that includes any number of the identity values in any order. Due to the high CPU demands of permutation algorithms this does not actually generate every possible permutation - instead it finds all files that match the directory/prefix/separator/suffix and filters those for values in the identity and is very fast.

Specify a Hash::Merge merge behavior. The default is LEFT_PRECEDENT.

Contains the final configuration hash as merged from the hashes in "default_config", "stem_configs", and "override_configs".

A merged hash of all the hashrefs in "default_configs". This is computed separately, but then merged with, "config" so that the "stem_configs" and "override_configs" can be checked for valid keys if "require_defaults" is set.

An array of hashrefs, each hashref containing a single key/value pair as returned by Config::Any->load_stems() where the key is the filename found, and the value is the parsed configuration hash for any "default_stem" configuration.

Like "default_configs", but for any "stems" configurations.

Like "default_configs", but for any "override_stem" configurations.

Contains an array of file paths for each value in "combinations".

Holds an array of arrays containing all possible permutations of the identity, per the specified "algorithm".

The Hash::Merge object that will be used to merge the configuration hashes.

Please submit bugs and feature requests to the Config-Locale GitHub issue tracker:

https://github.com/bluefeet/Config-Locale/issues

Aran Clary Deltac <[email protected]>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.