[Catalyst] Working with project configuration file outsideofCatalyst directory

[Octavian Rasnita]

Hi Leandro,

If you use Config::General style configuration files, search for "include" string in the POD documentation of Config::General module and you will find the syntax used for including another config file.

For example, if you want to include the file external.conf in a certain place in another configuration file, you can use:

<<include external.conf>>

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leandro Hermida" <softdev at leandrohermida.com>
To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Working with project configuration file outsideofCatalyst directory


Hi Octavian,

Thank you for the information, I am a bit confused how to implement it
though, what do you mean "include that configuration file in both the
master configuration and Catalyst configuration files"?

Suppose I have my master project directory:

myproject/
    lib/
    ... other dirs...
    myproject.conf
    web/  <---- Catalyst application directory
        inc/
        lib/
        myproject_web.conf
        script/
        t/

In myproject.conf I would have the database connection info amongst
other configuration used by the overall project:

<DB>
    schema_class ...
    <connect_info>
        dsn ...
        username ...
        password ...
        AutoCommit 1
    </connect_info>
</DB>

In the Catalyst configuration myproject_web.conf I would have things
specific to Catalyst:

name MyApp::Web
default_view HTML
....

How would I have Catalyst be able to include the configuration
automatically from myproject.conf outside the Catalyst app dir?

best,
Leandro


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:
> There may be other ways, but you could create a separate configuration file that contains the database connection settings only and include that configuration file in both the master configuration and Catalyst configuration files.
> If you'll want to change the database connection settings, you will need to change it in a single place.
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leandro Hermida" <softdev at leandrohermida.com>
> To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 7:49 PM
> Subject: [Catalyst] Working with project configuration file outside ofCatalyst directory
>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> My apologies if I haven't seen the post with the answer, I've looked
>> all over and get explanations for not exactly the same thing. I have a
>> big project of which the Catalyst application is only a part. I want
>> a master configuration file for the project which has configuration of
>> things independent of Catalyst (e.g. the database connection and
>> related info) and of course this configuration file lives outside of
>> the Catalyst application directory. Catalyst will have its
>> configuration file in the application directory e.g. my_app.conf and
>> this file with have only configuration related to Catalyst and I
>> Catalyst to be able to draw from the master project configuration file
>> outside to get for example onfiguration for connecting to the database
>> because this shouldn't be in my_app.conf.
>>
>> Configuration shouldn't be anywhere twice and project code outside the
>> Catalyst sub-project shouldn't have any knowledge of Catalyst at all
>> and shouldn't go get configuration inside Catalyst, it should be the
>> other way around (the only explanations I've seen take the former
>> approach). Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> best,
>> Leandro
>>
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