Orangutan

Current configuration file format is too simple and too limited. I believe Orangutan configuration should be flexible and extendable. So change of configuration file format is needed.

What is the problem? There were an idea to allow changing weight of contexts using configuration file. With current format it would look like this:

contexts.weight          = Issue:-10
contexts.request_weight  = Issue:-10
contexts.response_weight = Issue:undef

This looks odd...

So the idea is to change to something like:

Context Issue {
  Weight {
    Request  -10
    Response undef
  }
}

The current file will look like this:

Changelog Changelog
DisplayName "%f %s" 

Admin user@localhost
Manager user@localhost

UsersDirectory Users
UsersData Data
ContextsDirectory Contexts
MonkeysDirectory Monkeys

Contexts {
  Policy Exclude
  Include Issue
  Include Task
  ...
}

Monkeys {
  RedMonkey redmonkey@localhost
}

Jabber {
  Hostname localhost
  Port 5222
  ...
}

Context Issue {
  Field SomeField Value
  Option SomeOption Value
}

Include weights.conf

Note: The format is subject to change.

It would be also great if functions to access configuration values would look like this:

$main::config::Monkeys::RedMonkey;