multi-ini

An ini-file parser which supports multi line, multiple levels and arrays to get a maximum of compatibility with Zend config files.

Install

npm install multi-ini

Usage

ini = require('multi-ini');
content = ini.read(file);
content.section.key = value;
ini.write(file, content);

Options

Following options are available:

• encoding ['utf8'] - directly passed to readFileSync
• keep_quotes [false] - does not strip quotes around values
• filters - predefined lowercase, uppercase, trim, constants, boolean, integer
• nested_section_names [false] - support to parse section names e.g. [section.subsection]
• keep_zero_prefix [false] - controls the integer parsing by ignoring numbers with leading 0

Examples

encoding

ini = require('multi-ini');
content = ini.read(file, { encoding: 'utf8' });
content.section.key = value;
ini.write(file, content, { encoding: 'utf8' });

keep_quotes

This option is by default off to be backward compatible, if you ever need the value containing the quotes then use this.

key="value"

Enabling this option will result in "value" instead of value.

ini = require('multi-ini');
content = ini.read(file, { keep_quotes: true });

This will also affect the Serializer and serialized values. Using it will not quote anything automatically.

{
    production: {
        quoted: '"quoted"',
        not_quoted: 'not_quoted'
    }
}

Will result in a ini like

[production]
quoted="quoted"
not_quotes=not_quoted

filters

MultiIni = require('multi-ini');
ini = new MultiIni.Class({
    filters: [MultiIni.filters.lowercase],
});
content = ini.read(file);

Replacing constants

MultiIni = require('multi-ini');
ini = new MultiIni.Class({
    constants: { CONSTANT: 'replacement' },
    filters: [MultiIni.filters.constants],
});
content = ini.read(file);

Define a custom filter

MultiIni = require('multi-ini');
ini = new MultiIni.Class({
    filters: [
        function (value) {
            return 'Prepend ' + value;
        },
    ],
});
content = ini.read(file);

line_breaks

Either unix or windows for line breaks.

ini = require('multi-ini');
content = ini.read(file, { line_breaks: 'windows' });
content.section.key = value;

nested_section_names

Using nested_section_names will parse nested section names having a ..

ini = require('multi-ini');
content = ini.read(file, { nested_section_names: true });

[section.subsection]
key="value"

Will result in

{
    "section": {
        "subsection": {
            "key": "value"
        }
    }
}

Parser

It's also possible to parse a ini file from an array of strings.

ini = require('multi-ini');
parser = new ini.Parser();
content = parser.parse(lines);

Serializer

Like parsing it's also possible to serialize an ini object to a string.

ini = require('multi-ini');
serializer = new ini.Serializer();
content = serializer.serialize({
    production: {
        base_url: 'https://google.com',
    },
});

Changelog

2.2.0

• Support for nested section names
• filter for integer parsing

2.1.2

• Fixed prototype pollution by ignoring constructor and prototype

2.1.1

• Fixed prototype pollution by ignoring __proto__

1.0.1

• Fixed bug with keep_quotes ignored when writing files

1.0.0

• First full release keeping backwards compatibility

0.5.2

• Introduced option for line breaks

0.5.1

• Fixed a bug where single lines of multilines got trimmed

0.5.0

• Added support for filters per value

0.4.0

• Refactoring of the basic implementation to be no longer a singleton
• Fixed a bug with wrong detected escaped double quotes

0.2.5

Now correctly reads

key= example

to the value "example" instead of "** example**"

0.2.4

Implemented support for constants and removed a lot of bugs and the options ignore_invalid and oninvalid, this may be introduced again but are currently not necessary.

0.2.3

Fixed a bug that the module was not recognized as a module by Node.