On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:57:56PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > A model for Config::Model is to a configuration file what a schema is to an > XML file: a description of the structure and constraint of the semantic data > of the file.
Fair enough. So, in your terminology, a model is the schema. How do you
call instances? I'll use "instances" in the rest of this mail :-) Now
that that is clear, which kind of migrations of configuration file can
you provide on top of Config::Model.
Given that models contain default values, I believe it would be pretty
easy to provide change of default values, it would be enough to change
them in m_{i+1}, right?
Still, my recurring question has left unanswered, I swear this is the
last time I pose it. Does Config::Model permit to *programmatically*
apply more complex modification at upgrade time? Let's say I want to, at
the same time during an upgrade:
- change a default value from "yes" to "no"
- add 1 to a given set of integer values wrt what the user configured by
hand (e.g. because there was an off-by-one sort of semantics in past
upstream configuration, which has been changed now)
The second case is a bit more tricky, because you can easily fix default
values, but you really want to fix also user-customized values.
To achieve that, Config::Model would need to provide me (as the package
maintainer) the ability to write a small perl snippet where I've access
to the currently installed configuration file (which conforms to the old
version of the model, let's say m_i), where I can migrate it to the new
version of the model (let's say m_{i+1}), and also manipulate it as a
tree to change the values I want.
This of course is just an example, my general question was whether I can
only migrate from m_i to m_{i+1} or also pipe in between some custom
programmed logics.
TIA.
Cheers.
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