Implement variables in configfile.

This implements ticket #42.

Syntax is "set $key value". All further instances of $key will be
replaced with value before parsing each line of the configfile.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Stapelberg 2009-06-01 16:19:06 +02:00
parent 170ba60191
commit e689be983b
2 changed files with 63 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
#ifndef _CONFIG_H
#define _CONFIG_H
#include "queue.h"
typedef struct Config Config;
extern Config config;
@ -24,6 +26,13 @@ struct Colortriple {
uint32_t text;
};
struct Variable {
char *key;
char *value;
SLIST_ENTRY(Variable) variables;
};
struct Config {
const char *terminal;
const char *font;

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@ -34,6 +34,28 @@ static char *glob_path(const char *path) {
return result;
}
/*
* This function does a very simple replacement of each instance of key with value.
*
*/
static void replace_variable(char *buffer, const char *key, const char *value) {
char *pos;
/* To prevent endless recursions when the user makes an error configuring,
* we stop after 100 replacements. That should be vastly more than enough. */
int c = 0;
LOG("Replacing %s with %s\n", key, value);
while ((pos = strcasestr(buffer, key)) != NULL && c++ < 100) {
LOG("replacing variable %s in \"%s\" with \"%s\"\n", key, buffer, value);
char *rest = pos + strlen(key);
*pos = '\0';
char *replaced;
asprintf(&replaced, "%s%s%s", buffer, value, rest);
/* Hm, this is a bit ugly, but sizeof(buffer) = 4, as its just a pointer.
* So we need to hard-code the dimensions here. */
strncpy(buffer, replaced, 1026);
free(replaced);
}
}
/*
* Reads the configuration from ~/.i3/config or /etc/i3/config if not found.
@ -43,6 +65,8 @@ static char *glob_path(const char *path) {
*
*/
void load_configuration(xcb_connection_t *conn, const char *override_configpath) {
SLIST_HEAD(variables_head, Variable) variables;
#define OPTION_STRING(name) \
if (strcasecmp(key, #name) == 0) { \
config.name = sstrdup(value); \
@ -75,6 +99,8 @@ void load_configuration(xcb_connection_t *conn, const char *override_configpath)
/* Clear the old config or initialize the data structure */
memset(&config, 0, sizeof(config));
SLIST_INIT(&variables);
/* Initialize default colors */
config.client.focused.border = get_colorpixel(conn, "#4c7899");
config.client.focused.background = get_colorpixel(conn, "#285577");
@ -118,6 +144,14 @@ void load_configuration(xcb_connection_t *conn, const char *override_configpath)
die("Could not read configuration file\n");
}
if (config.terminal != NULL)
replace_variable(buffer, "$terminal", config.terminal);
/* Replace all custom variables */
struct Variable *current;
SLIST_FOREACH(current, &variables, variables)
replace_variable(buffer, current->key, current->value);
/* sscanf implicitly strips whitespace. Also, we skip comments and empty lines. */
if (sscanf(buffer, "%s %[^\n]", key, value) < 1 ||
key[0] == '#' || strlen(key) < 3)
@ -219,6 +253,26 @@ void load_configuration(xcb_connection_t *conn, const char *override_configpath)
continue;
}
/* set a custom variable */
if (strcasecmp(key, "set") == 0) {
if (value[0] != '$')
die("Malformed variable assignment, name has to start with $\n");
/* get key/value for this variable */
char *v_key = value, *v_value;
if ((v_value = strstr(value, " ")) == NULL)
die("Malformed variable assignment, need a value\n");
*(v_value++) = '\0';
struct Variable *new = scalloc(sizeof(struct Variable));
new->key = sstrdup(v_key);
new->value = sstrdup(v_value);
SLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&variables, new, variables);
LOG("Got new variable %s = %s\n", v_key, v_value);
continue;
}
die("Unknown configfile option: %s\n", key);
}
fclose(handle);