Config::Context 0.10

Config::Context is a Perl module that provides a consistent interface to many hierarchical configuration file formats such as Config::General, XML::Simple and Config::Scoped.<br /><br />It also provides Apache-style context matching. You can include blocks of configuration that match or not based on run-time parameters.<br /><br />For instance (using Config::General syntax):<br /><br /> company_name = ACME<br /> in_the_users_area = 0<br /><br /> < Location /users ><br /> in_the_users_area = 1<br /> < /Location ><br /><br />At runtime, if Location is within /users, then the configuration within the block is merged into the top level. Otherwise, the block is ignored.<br /><br />So if Location is /users/gary, the configuration is reduced to:<br /><br /> {<br /> company_name => 'ACME',<br /> in_the_users_area => 1,<br /> }<br /><br />But if Location is outside of the /users area (e.g. /admin/documents.html), the configuration is reduced to:<br /><br /> {<br /> company_name => 'ACME',<br /> in_the_users_area => 0,<br /> }<br /><br />The exact mechanics of how Location matches /users is extensively customizable. You can configure a particular block to match based on exact string matches, a substring, a path, or a regex.<br /><br />This kind of context-based matching was inspired by Apache's context-based configuration files.<br /><br />Config::Context works with Apache-style config files (via Config::General), XML documents (via XML::Simple), and Config::Scoped config files. You select the type config file with the driver option to new.<br /><br />The examples in this document use Config::General (Apache-style) syntax. For details on other configuration formats, see the documentation for the appropriate driver.<br /><br />For a real world example of Config::Context in action, see CGI::Application::Plugin::Config::Context, which determines configurations based on the URL of the request, the name of the Perl Module, and the virtual host handling the web request.

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