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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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# Copyright (C) 2007-2009 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# Author: Matt Giuca, Will Grant
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Provides programmatic access to the IVLE configuration file.
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from configobj import ConfigObj
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from validate import Validator
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__all__ = ["ConfigError", "Config"]
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class ConfigError(Exception):
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An error reading or writing the configuration file.
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def search_conffile():
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Search for the config file, and return it as a filename.
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1. Environment var IVLECONF (full filename).
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3. /etc/ivle/ivle.conf
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Raises a ConfigError on error.
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if 'IVLECONF' in os.environ:
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fname = os.environ['IVLECONF']
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if os.path.exists(fname):
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if os.path.exists('./etc/ivle.conf'):
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return './etc/ivle.conf'
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if os.path.exists('/etc/ivle/ivle.conf'):
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return '/etc/ivle/ivle.conf'
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raise ConfigError("Could not find IVLE config file")
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class Config(ConfigObj):
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The configuration object. Can be instantiated with no arguments (will
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implicitly find the ivle.conf file and load it).
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Automatically validates the file against the spec (found in
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./ivle-spec.conf relative to this module).
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def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
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conffile = search_conffile()
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specfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'ivle-spec.conf')
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super(Config, self).__init__(infile=conffile, configspec=specfile,
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# XXX This doesn't raise errors if it doesn't validate
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self.validate(Validator())