Validation error reporting functionality.

[mediagoblin.git] / mediagoblin / config.py

# GNU MediaGoblin -- federated, autonomous media hosting
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import os
import pkg_resources

from configobj import ConfigObj, flatten_errors
from validate import Validator


CONFIG_SPEC_PATH = pkg_resources.resource_filename(
    'mediagoblin', 'config_spec.ini')


def _setup_defaults(config, config_path):
    """
    Setup DEFAULTS in a config object from an (absolute) config_path.
    """
    config.setdefault('DEFAULT', {})
    config['DEFAULT']['here'] = os.path.dirname(config_path)
    config['DEFAULT']['__file__'] = config_path


def read_mediagoblin_config(config_path, config_spec=CONFIG_SPEC_PATH):
    """
    Read a config object from config_path.

    Does automatic value transformation based on the config_spec.
    Also provides %(__file__)s and %(here)s values of this file and
    its directory respectively similar to paste deploy.

    This function doesn't itself raise any exceptions if validation
    fails, you'll have to do something

    Args:
     - config_path: path to the config file
     - config_spec: config file that provides defaults and value types
       for validation / conversion.  Defaults to mediagoblin/config_spec.ini

    Returns:
      A tuple like: (config, validation_result)
      ... where 'conf' is the parsed config object and 'validation_result'
      is the information from the validation process.
    """
    config_path = os.path.abspath(config_path)

    config_spec = ConfigObj(
        CONFIG_SPEC_PATH,
        encoding='UTF8', list_values=False, _inspec=True)

    _setup_defaults(config_spec, config_path)

    config = ConfigObj(
        config_path,
        configspec=config_spec,
        interpolation='ConfigParser')

    _setup_defaults(config, config_path)

    # For now the validator just works with the default functions,
    # but in the future if we want to add additional validation/configuration
    # functions we'd add them to validator.functions here.
    # 
    # See also:
    #   http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/validate.html#adding-functions
    validator = Validator()
    validation_result = config.validate(validator, preserve_errors=True)

    return config, validation_result


REPORT_HEADER = """\
There were validation problems loading this config file:
--------------------------------------------------------
"""


def generate_validation_report(config, validation_result):
    """
    Generate a report if necessary of problems while validating.

    Returns:
      Either a string describing for a user the problems validating
      this config or None if there are no problems.
    """
    report = []

    # Organize the report
    for entry in flatten_errors(config, validation_result):
        # each entry is a tuple
        section_list, key, error = entry

        if key is not None:
            section_list.append(key)
        else:
            section_list.append(u'[missing section]')

        section_string = u':'.join(section_list)

        if error == False:
            # We don't care about missing values for now.
            continue

        report.append(u"%s = %s" % (section_string, error))

    if report:
        return REPORT_HEADER + u"\n".join(report)
    else:
        return None