Bug #62096 for Config-General: Retain original source of configuration values

Tue Oct 12 20:53:45 2010 https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnRnLpJfzWfQuhx3s1ylW5bfTDzt31vKOE - Ticket created

Subject:

Retain original source of configuration values

I'm using Config::General to parse Apache configuration files, and it works very well for that purpose, except that I'd love to be able to identify, after the fact, which file a given item originated with. Since C::G's output is a plain old hash, I guess there's no room in the result for that kind of metadata. I suppose one way to do this could be a parallel structure; more generally, if there were some way to "hook" C::G so I could be notified on various kinds of events I could roll my own. Thanks!

Wed Feb 01 03:38:05 2012 tlinden [...] cpan.org - Taken

Wed Feb 01 03:41:02 2012 tlinden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Well the thing is, that C::G needs to be rewritten from scratch for such stuff. And there are more bugs/feature requests, which lead to this. So, I'm considering rewriting it and using an OOP aproach for the internal structure which retains original files, line numbers, comments, uninterpolated variable contents and the like. But this takes time, since the module is widely used and I just can't do such a heavy change without causing much damage to users.

Wed Feb 01 03:41:04 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Feb 01 12:58:43 2012 https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnRnLpJfzWfQuhx3s1ylW5bfTDzt31vKOE - Correspondence added

From:

Alex

On Wed Feb 01 03:41:02 2012, TLINDEN wrote: Show quoted text

> I'm considering rewriting it and using an OOP aproach for the internal > structure which retains original files, line numbers, comments, > uninterpolated variable contents and the like. But this takes time, > since the module is widely used and I just can't do such a heavy change > without causing much damage to users.

I ended up switching to Augeas anyway, but thanks for C::G, it got me off the ground quickly. :)

Wed Jul 18 06:22:16 2012 tlinden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

closed then.

Wed Jul 18 06:22:17 2012 tlinden [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'