[Freeipa-devel] The proposed description of the INI file format

[Dmitri Pal]

Hi,

I was thinking about the INI file processing.
In many cases there is a need to validate that the INI file is 
synthetically and structurally correct.
Such checking would be very helpful when admin changed the file manually 
or when the policy tries to merge/apply something.
The attached file is an attempt to create and example of the template 
file that will contain the rules (grammar) about the INI file.
I think such kind of validation will be extremely helpful.
On the other hand I was not planning to implement everything I propose 
in the first pass.
This might be too much but at least structural and type checking might 
be very good start.

File has a lot of comments and written in INI format.
This seems like re-inventing XML in a human readable and editable form. :-)

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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