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2.7 KiB
102 lines
2.7 KiB
An ini format parser and serializer for node. |
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Sections are treated as nested objects. Items before the first |
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heading are saved on the object directly. |
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## Usage |
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Consider an ini-file `config.ini` that looks like this: |
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; this comment is being ignored |
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scope = global |
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[database] |
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user = dbuser |
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password = dbpassword |
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database = use_this_database |
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[paths.default] |
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datadir = /var/lib/data |
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array[] = first value |
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array[] = second value |
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array[] = third value |
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You can read, manipulate and write the ini-file like so: |
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var fs = require('fs') |
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, ini = require('ini') |
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var config = ini.parse(fs.readFileSync('./config.ini', 'utf-8')) |
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config.scope = 'local' |
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config.database.database = 'use_another_database' |
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config.paths.default.tmpdir = '/tmp' |
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delete config.paths.default.datadir |
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config.paths.default.array.push('fourth value') |
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fs.writeFileSync('./config_modified.ini', ini.stringify(config, { section: 'section' })) |
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This will result in a file called `config_modified.ini` being written |
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to the filesystem with the following content: |
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[section] |
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scope=local |
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[section.database] |
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user=dbuser |
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password=dbpassword |
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database=use_another_database |
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[section.paths.default] |
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tmpdir=/tmp |
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array[]=first value |
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array[]=second value |
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array[]=third value |
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array[]=fourth value |
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## API |
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### decode(inistring) |
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Decode the ini-style formatted `inistring` into a nested object. |
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### parse(inistring) |
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Alias for `decode(inistring)` |
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### encode(object, [options]) |
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Encode the object `object` into an ini-style formatted string. If the |
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optional parameter `section` is given, then all top-level properties |
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of the object are put into this section and the `section`-string is |
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prepended to all sub-sections, see the usage example above. |
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The `options` object may contain the following: |
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* `section` A string which will be the first `section` in the encoded |
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ini data. Defaults to none. |
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* `whitespace` Boolean to specify whether to put whitespace around the |
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`=` character. By default, whitespace is omitted, to be friendly to |
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some persnickety old parsers that don't tolerate it well. But some |
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find that it's more human-readable and pretty with the whitespace. |
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For backwards compatibility reasons, if a `string` options is passed |
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in, then it is assumed to be the `section` value. |
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### stringify(object, [options]) |
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Alias for `encode(object, [options])` |
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### safe(val) |
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Escapes the string `val` such that it is safe to be used as a key or |
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value in an ini-file. Basically escapes quotes. For example |
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ini.safe('"unsafe string"') |
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would result in |
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"\"unsafe string\"" |
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### unsafe(val) |
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Unescapes the string `val`
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