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Validate Config Plugin

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  • Latest: 0.4.3
  • Last Updated: 31 May 2013
  • Grails version: 2.0 > *
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Dependency: 
compile "org.grails.plugins:validate-config:0.4.3"

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Summary

Adds methods to ConfigObject for validating expected and required properties. To use it, specify validate.required and validate.expected in Config.groovy

Installation

grails install-plugin validate-config

Description

Adds methods to ConfigObject for validating expected and required properties. This is especially useful when the config has been externalized and you want to ensure values are provided for all the required/expected properties.

Validating Expected and Required Properties

Simply add something like this to @Config.groovy@

validate  {
    required = [ "a", "b", "c" ]
    expected = [ "p":123, "d":"foobar", "q":"/dev/null" ]
}

Then (usually in BootStrap.groovy ) to set defaults for missing expected properties call

grailsApplication.config.validateExpectedProperties()

To check for required properties call

grailsApplication.config.validateRequiredProperties()

A ConfigurationException will be thrown when required properties are missing.

The validate.expected and validate.required data can be specified at lower levels too...

grails {
    mongo {
        validate {
            required = [
                "grails.mongo.host",
                "grails.mongo.databaseName"
            ]
            expected = [
                "grails.mongo.port": 27017,
                "grails.mongo.bucket": "item"
            ]
        }
    }
}

This way you can validate portions of the config by calling

grailsApplication.config.grails.mongo.validateExpectedProperties()

and so on.

Validating Existance of External Files

The ConfigUtils.validateExternalFiles method will check that a list of files does exist. Use it like this in Config.groovy .

grails.config.locations << "file:${userHome}/.emacs"
grails.config.locations < "file:${userHome}/.grails/${appName}-config.groovy"
ConfigUtils.validateExternalFiles(grails.config.locations)

A ConfigurationException will be thrown when any of the files does not exist.

Example

See the sample apps for various grails versions at https://github.com/onetribeyoyo/validate-config/tree/master/examples.

Changes

0.4.3

Fixes a bug with assigning default values for expected properties.

0.4.1

Relaxing ConfigUtil method signatures: No longer requiring a `ConfigObject`, now anything like a map is OK.

0.4

Initial release.