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72 lines
1.9 KiB
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An ini format parser and serializer for node.
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Sections are treated as nested objects. Items before the first heading
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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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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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fs.writeFileSync('./config_modified.ini', ini.stringify(config, 'section'))
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This will result in a file called `config_modified.ini` being written 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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## 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, [section])
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Encode the object `object` into an ini-style formatted string. If the optional parameter `section` is given, then all top-level properties of the object are put into this section and the `section`-string is prepended to all sub-sections, see the usage example above.
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### stringify(object, [section])
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Alias for `encode(object, [section])`
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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 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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