/NConfiguration

Library for simple configuration management

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NConfiguration

Library for simple configuration management

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Examples:

In your web.config or app.config make sure you have a custom section:

<configuration>
	<configSections>
		<section name="ExtConfigure" type="NConfiguration.PlainXmlSection, NConfiguration"/>
	</configSections>
	<ExtConfigure>
		<IncludeFile Path="etc\externalConfig.xml" Search="All" Include="All" Required="true"/>
		<IncludeFile Path="etc\machineSpecific.xml" Search="All" Include="All" Required="true"/>
	</ExtConfigure>
</configuration>

Find and download all of the files in the parent directory. Tracking changed included files.

public IAppSettings LoadSettings()
{
	var loader = new SettingsLoader();
	loader.XmlFileBySection();
	var result = loader.LoadSettings(new XmlSystemSettings("ExtConfigure"));
	
	var fileCheckers = FileChecker.TryCreate(result.Sources).ToArray();
	new FirstChange(fileCheckers).Changed += SettingsChanged;

	return result.Joined.ToAppSettings();
}

private void SettingsChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
	//TODO: reload settings or application
}

Watch file configuration:

	<WatchFile Mode='Auto' Delay='0:0:30' Check='Attr,Hash' />
  • Mode - mode of watch from file
  • Auto - try create FileSystemWatcher, otherwise create delayed monitor
  • System - create FileSystemWatcher
  • Time - create delayed monitor
  • None - not watching, default value
  • Delay - delay between checking of monitored file
  • Check - what is required to check
  • None - only exists file and lenght
  • Attr - last write time and other file attributes
  • Hash - MD5 hash sum of reader file
  • All or Attr,Hash - check same as in Attr and Hash

Deserialization section with the name of all downloaded files.

var configs = settings.Get<ConfigClass>("MyConfig");