Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[3.0.4] - 2021-03-18

Changed

• Methods now use self to call Config itself, instead of hardcoding to Config. This allows for inheritance with the Config class, without breaking its core functionality.

[3.0.3] - 2020-11-16

Due to a user error, version 3.0.2 has been skipped.

Changed

• Updated tests supplied with Config.

[3.0.1] - 2020-11-12

Changed

• .read now uses %!data.clone, instead of %!data. This should fix an issue where the Hash used is shared between the objects, resulting in hard-to-debug errors.

[3.0.0] - 2020-07-12

Config has been rebuilt from the ground up. This is a relatively old project of mine, which I used to get into Raku. I've learned many new things in the past couple years, many things of which have been applied to this project.

Much of the user-facing interface is the same, however, breaking some backwards compatibility was inevitable with some of the new ways I wanted Config to function. Please read through this CHANGELOG carefully, and consider reading the documentation if you encounter issues. If you have any questions or remarks, you can also send an email to ~tyil/raku-devel@lists.sr.ht.

Added

• .new now (optionally) accepts a Hash which will be used as a template. From this template, environment variables will be checked for existence, and used if they exist. You must also set a :name attribute, which will be used as a prefix for all the variables. This should make it easier to include environment variable based configuration in applications.

  Additionally, if the :name attribute is set, a number of standard directories will be probed to see if there's a usable configuration file to read. Which directories to probe is based on the XDG Base Directory Specification.

  Both environment and XDG-path based auto-loading of configuration can be turned off with :!from-env and :!from-xdg respectively.

• Log is now included to provide some debug logging. Any application using this will get logging in their preferred format through this.

Changed

• The Config object is now immutable. Calling methods that alter the configuration values (such as .read, .set, .unset) will now return a new Config object. Raku has a very pretty .= operator that may come in handy!

• The Exception classes are now in X::Config, and the redundant Exception suffix has been removed.

• When setting an explicit parser, the parser must be given as a type object, instead of a Str. This will lead to potential issues being known at compile-time, rather than runtime.

• Config's license has changed from AGPL-3.0 to LGPL-3.0-only. The Lesser General Public License allows use of Config, even in closed code bases. This should make the module more usable for all sorts of people, while still maintaining a strong focus on keeping it Free Software.

[2.1.0] - 2018-08-26

Added

• .clone method now exists to create a clone of the Config object.

[2.0.0] - 2018-08-26

Changed

• .read will now return the Config object, instead of a Bool.

[1.3.5] - 2018-03-28

Added

• api key to META6.json

Changed

• Update dependency to Hash::Merge to use api and version adverbs

Removed

• Lingering say statement in get-parser, breaking tests for Rakudo Star users (GitHub#4)

• Useless use lib "lib" statements from tests

• Useless dd statement from tests

[1.3.3] - 2018-03-20

Added

• A CHANGELOG is now present to keep track of changes between versions

Changed

• Fix :delete adverb