Updated config_spec.ini to add %(data_basedir)s and make use of it!

[mediagoblin.git] / mediagoblin / init / config.py

# GNU MediaGoblin -- federated, autonomous media hosting
# Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 MediaGoblin contributors.  See AUTHORS.
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import copy
import logging
import os
import pkg_resources

from configobj import ConfigObj, flatten_errors
from validate import Validator


_log = logging.getLogger(__name__)


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


def _setup_defaults(config, config_path, extra_defaults=None):
    """
    Setup DEFAULTS in a config object from an (absolute) config_path.
    """
    extra_defaults = extra_defaults or {}

    config.setdefault('DEFAULT', {})
    config['DEFAULT']['here'] = os.path.dirname(config_path)
    config['DEFAULT']['__file__'] = config_path
    
    for key, value in extra_defaults.items():
        config['DEFAULT'].setdefault(key, value)


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.

    Also reads for [plugins] section, appends all config_spec.ini
    files from said plugins into the general config_spec specification.

    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)

    # PRE-READ of config file.  This allows us to fetch the plugins so
    # we can add their plugin specs to the general config_spec.
    config = ConfigObj(
        config_path,
        interpolation='ConfigParser')

    plugins = config.get("plugins", {}).keys()
    plugin_configs = {}

    # Now load the main config spec
    config_spec = ConfigObj(
        config_spec,
        encoding='UTF8', list_values=False, _inspec=True)

    # temporary bootstrap, just setup here and __file__... we'll do this again
    _setup_defaults(config, config_path)

    # Set up extra defaults that will be pushed into the rest of the
    # configs.  This is a combined extrapolation of defaults based on 
    mainconfig_defaults = copy.copy(config_spec.get('DEFAULT', {}))
    mainconfig_defaults.update(config.get('DEFAULT', {}))

    for plugin in plugins:
        try:
            plugin_config_spec_path = pkg_resources.resource_filename(
                plugin, "config_spec.ini")
            if not os.path.exists(plugin_config_spec_path):
                continue
            
            plugin_config_spec = ConfigObj(
                plugin_config_spec_path,
                encoding='UTF8', list_values=False, _inspec=True)
            _setup_defaults(
                plugin_config_spec, config_path, mainconfig_defaults)

            if not "plugin_spec" in plugin_config_spec:
                continue

            plugin_configs[plugin] = plugin_config_spec["plugin_spec"]

        except ImportError:
            _log.warning(
                "When setting up config section, could not import '%s'" %
                plugin)
    
    # append the plugin specific sections of the config spec
    config_spec['plugins'] = plugin_configs

    _setup_defaults(config_spec, config_path, mainconfig_defaults)

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

    _setup_defaults(config, config_path, mainconfig_defaults)

    # 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 = u"""\
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