NAME Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader - Load config files of various types SYNOPSIS package MyApp; # ConfigLoader should be first in your list so # other plugins can get the config information use Catalyst qw( ConfigLoader ... ); # by default myapp.* will be loaded # you can specify a file if you'd like __PACKAGE__->config( file => 'config.yaml' ); DESCRIPTION This module will attempt to load find and load a configuration file of various types. Currently it supports YAML, JSON, XML, INI and Perl formats. To support the distinction between development and production environments, this module will also attemp to load a local config (e.g. myapp_local.yaml) which will override any duplicate settings. METHODS setup( ) This method is automatically called by Catalyst's setup routine. It will attempt to use each plugin and, once a file has been successfully loaded, set the "config()" section. finalize_config This method is called after the config file is loaded. It can be used to implement tuning of config values that can only be done at runtime. If you need to do this to properly configure any plugins, it's important to load ConfigLoader before them. ConfigLoader provides a default finalize_config method which walks through the loaded config hash and replaces any strings beginning containing "__HOME__" with the full path to app's home directory (i.e. "$c->path_to('')" ). You can also use "__path_to('foo/bar')__" which translates to "$c->path_to('foo', 'bar')" get_config_path This method determines the path, filename prefix and file extension to be used for config loading. It returns the path (up to the filename less the extension) to check and the specific extension to use (if it was specified). The order of preference is specified as: * $ENV{ MYAPP_CONFIG } * "$c-"config->{ file }> * "$c-"path_to( $application_prefix )> If either of the first two user-specified options are directories, the application prefix will be added on to the end of the path. AUTHOR * Brian Cassidy CONTRIBUTORS The following people have generously donated their time to the development of this module: * David Kamholz COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2006 by Brian Cassidy This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO * Catalyst