monkeyking/notebook/config_manager.py

# coding: utf-8
"""Manager to read and modify config data in JSON files."""

# Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.

import errno
import glob
import io
import json
import os
import copy

from traitlets.config import LoggingConfigurable
from traitlets.traitlets import Unicode, Bool


def recursive_update(target, new):
    """Recursively update one dictionary using another.

    None values will delete their keys.
    """
    for k, v in new.items():
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            if k not in target:
                target[k] = {}
            recursive_update(target[k], v)
            if not target[k]:
                # Prune empty subdicts
                del target[k]

        elif v is None:
            target.pop(k, None)

        else:
            target[k] = v


def remove_defaults(data, defaults):
    """Recursively remove items from dict that are already in defaults"""
    # copy the iterator, since data will be modified
    for key, value in list(data.items()):
        if key in defaults:
            if isinstance(value, dict):
                remove_defaults(data[key], defaults[key])
                if not data[key]:  # prune empty subdicts
                    del data[key]
            else:
                if value == defaults[key]:
                    del data[key]


class BaseJSONConfigManager(LoggingConfigurable):
    """General JSON config manager

    Deals with persisting/storing config in a json file with optionally
    default values in a {section_name}.d directory.
    """

    config_dir = Unicode('.')
    read_directory = Bool(True)

    def ensure_config_dir_exists(self):
        """Will try to create the config_dir directory."""
        try:
            os.makedirs(self.config_dir, 0o755)
        except OSError as e:
            if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                raise

    def file_name(self, section_name):
        """Returns the json filename for the section_name: {config_dir}/{section_name}.json"""
        return os.path.join(self.config_dir, section_name+'.json')

    def directory(self, section_name):
        """Returns the directory name for the section name: {config_dir}/{section_name}.d"""
        return os.path.join(self.config_dir, section_name+'.d')

    def get(self, section_name, include_root=True):
        """Retrieve the config data for the specified section.

        Returns the data as a dictionary, or an empty dictionary if the file
        doesn't exist.

        When include_root is False, it will not read the root .json file,
        effectively returning the default values.
        """
        paths = [self.file_name(section_name)] if include_root else []
        if self.read_directory:
            pattern = os.path.join(self.directory(section_name), '*.json')
            # These json files should be processed first so that the
            # {section_name}.json take precedence.
            # The idea behind this is that installing a Python package may
            # put a json file somewhere in the a .d directory, while the
            # .json file is probably a user configuration.
            paths = sorted(glob.glob(pattern)) + paths
        self.log.debug('Paths used for configuration of %s: \n\t%s', section_name, '\n\t'.join(paths))
        data = {}
        for path in paths:
            if os.path.isfile(path):
                with io.open(path, encoding='utf-8') as f:
                    recursive_update(data, json.load(f))
        return data

    def set(self, section_name, data):
        """Store the given config data.
        """
        filename = self.file_name(section_name)
        self.ensure_config_dir_exists()

        if self.read_directory:
            # we will modify data in place, so make a copy
            data = copy.deepcopy(data)
            defaults = self.get(section_name, include_root=False)
            remove_defaults(data, defaults)

        # Generate the JSON up front, since it could raise an exception,
        # in order to avoid writing half-finished corrupted data to disk.
        json_content = json.dumps(data, indent=2)

        f = io.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
        with f:
            f.write(json_content)

    def update(self, section_name, new_data):
        """Modify the config section by recursively updating it with new_data.

        Returns the modified config data as a dictionary.
        """
        data = self.get(section_name)
        recursive_update(data, new_data)
        self.set(section_name, data)
        return data