-- Initial app-settings.cabal generated by cabal init. For further -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/ name: app-settings version: 0.1.0.3 synopsis: A library to manage application settings (INI file-like) description: A library to deal with application settings. . This library deals with read-write application settings. You will have to specify the settings that your application uses, their name, types and default values. . Setting types must implement the 'Read' and 'Show' typeclasses. . The settings are saved in a file in an INI-like key-value format (without sections). . Reading and updating settings is done in pure code, the IO monad is only used to load settings and save them to disk. It is advised for the user to create a module in your project holding settings handling. . You can then declare settings: . > fontSize :: Setting Double > fontSize = Setting "fontSize" 14 > > dateFormat :: Setting String > dateFormat = Setting "dateFormat" "%x" > > backgroundColor :: Setting (Int, Int, Int) > backgroundColor = Setting "backcolor" (255, 0, 0) . Optionally you can declare the list of all your settings: . > defaultConfig :: DefaultConfig > defaultConfig = getDefaultConfig $ do > setting fontSize > setting dateFormat > setting backgroundColor . If you do it, 'saveSettings' will also save settings which have not been modified, which are still at their default value in the configuration file, in a commented form, as a documentation to the user who may open the configuration file. So for instance if you declare this default configuration and have set the font size to 16 but left the other settings untouched, the configuration file which will be saved will be: . > fontSize=16 > # dateFormat="%x" > # backcolor=(255,0,0) . If you did not specify the list of settings, only the first line would be present in the configuration file. . Once we declared the settings, we can read the configuration from disk (and your settings module should export your wrapper around the function offered by this library): . > readResult <- try $ readSettings (AutoFromAppName "test") > case readResult of > Right (conf, GetSetting getSetting) -> do > let textSize = getSetting textSizeFromWidth > saveSettings getDefaultConfig (AutoFromAppName "test") conf > Left (x :: SomeException) -> error "Error reading the config file!" . 'AutoFromAppName' specifies where to save the configuration file. And we've already covered the getSetting in this snippet, see the 'readSettings' documentation for further information. homepage: https://github.com/emmanueltouzery/app-settings license: BSD3 license-file: LICENSE author: Emmanuel Touzery maintainer: etouzery@gmail.com -- copyright: category: Configuration build-type: Simple -- extra-source-files: cabal-version: >=1.10 library exposed-modules: Data.AppSettings other-modules: Data.Serialization -- other-extensions: build-depends: base >=4.6 && <5, mtl == 2.1.*, containers == 0.5.*, directory == 1.2.*, text >= 0.10, parsec == 3.1.* -- hs-source-dirs: default-language: Haskell2010 Ghc-Options: -Wall test-suite tests type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 hs-source-dirs: ., tests main-is: Tests.hs default-language: Haskell2010 build-depends: base, hspec >= 1.8 && <1.9, HUnit >= 1.2 && <1.3, mtl == 2.1.*, containers == 0.5.*, directory == 1.2.*, text >= 0.10, parsec == 3.1.* Ghc-Options: -Wall