M CHANGELOG.rst => CHANGELOG.rst +1 -0
@@ 14,6 14,7 @@ Version 5.0
- If the client doesn’t specify any limit, MAM results contain at most 100
messages, instead of the whole archive.
- Multiline topics are now properly handled
+ - Configuration options can be overridden by values found in the process env.
Version 4.1 - 2017-03-21
========================
M doc/biboumi.1.rst => doc/biboumi.1.rst +7 -3
@@ 35,15 35,19 @@ details on its content.
Configuration
=============
-The configuration file uses a simple format of the form
-``option=value``.
+The configuration file uses a simple format of the form ``option=value``.
+
+The values from the configuration file can be overridden by environment
+variables, with the name all in upper case and prefixed with "BIBOUMI_".
+For example, if the environment contains “BIBOUMI_PASSWORD=blah", this will
+override the value of the “password” option in the configuration file.
Sending SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 (see kill(1)) to the process will force it to
re-read the configuration and make it close and re-open the log files. You
can use this to change any configuration option at runtime, or do a log
rotation.
-Here is a description of each possible option:
+Here is a description of every possible option:
hostname
--------
M src/config/config.cpp => src/config/config.cpp +35 -11
@@ 1,10 1,15 @@
#include <config/config.hpp>
+#include <utils/tolower.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdlib>
+using namespace std::string_literals;
+
+extern char** environ;
+
std::string Config::filename{};
std::map<std::string, std::string> Config::values{};
std::vector<t_config_changed_callback> Config::callbacks{};
@@ 71,21 76,40 @@ bool Config::read_conf(const std::string& name)
Config::clear();
+ auto parse_line = [](const std::string& line, const bool env)
+ {
+ static const auto env_option_prefix = "BIBOUMI_"s;
+
+ if (line == "" || line[0] == '#')
+ return;
+ size_t pos = line.find('=');
+ if (pos == std::string::npos)
+ return;
+ std::string option = line.substr(0, pos);
+ std::string value = line.substr(pos+1);
+ if (env)
+ {
+ auto a = option.substr(0, env_option_prefix.size());
+ if (a == env_option_prefix)
+ option = utils::tolower(option.substr(env_option_prefix.size()));
+ else
+ return;
+ }
+ Config::values[option] = value;
+ };
+
std::string line;
- size_t pos;
- std::string option;
- std::string value;
while (file.good())
{
std::getline(file, line);
- if (line == "" || line[0] == '#')
- continue ;
- pos = line.find('=');
- if (pos == std::string::npos)
- continue ;
- option = line.substr(0, pos);
- value = line.substr(pos+1);
- Config::values[option] = value;
+ parse_line(line, false);
+ }
+
+ char** env_line = environ;
+ while (*env_line)
+ {
+ parse_line(*env_line, true);
+ env_line++;
}
return true;
}