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[tutorial v1.1_021)] A variable with type's parameters

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Firefox Proxy setting

Clone and install

To test this tutorial, you need to download this repository and install Rougail:

git clone -b 1.1 https://forge.cloud.silique.fr/stove/rougail-tutorials.git
cd rougail-tutorials
python -m venv venv_rougail
. venv_rougail/bin/activate
pip install rougail-cli rougail-output-exporter rougail-output-doc rougail-user-data-yaml

Then switch to the tutorial page:

git switch --detach v1.1_021

Structure

.
└── firefox
    ├── 00-proxy.yml
    └── 10-manual.yml


Contents of the firefox/10-manual.yml file

%YAML 1.2
---
version: 1.1

manual:  # Manual proxy configuration

  http_proxy:  # HTTP Proxy

    address:
      description: HTTP address
      type: domainname
      params:
        allow_ip: true
...

Let's generate the documentation

rougail -m firefox/ -o doc
Variable                                                                                        Description                                                                                    
proxy_mode
choice mandatory
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet.
Choices:
- No proxy ← (default)
- Auto-detect proxy settings for this network
- Use system proxy settings
- Manual proxy configuration
- Automatic proxy configuration URL

Manual proxy configuration

manual

HTTP Proxy

manual.http_proxy

Variable                                                                                            Description                                                                                        
manual.http_proxy.address
domainname mandatory
HTTP address.
Validator: the domain name can be an IP

Let's generate the changelog

rougail -m firefox/ -o doc --doc.contents changelog

Modified variable

Variable                                                                                            Description                                                                                        
manual.http_proxy.address
domainname mandatory
HTTP address.
Validator: the domain name can be an IP

User datas

Example 1

config/01/config.yml

---
manual:
  http_proxy:
    address: example.net

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/01/config.yml
╭──────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Default value  │
│          Modified value │
╰─────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┣━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy
┗━━ 📂 Manual proxy configuration
    ┗━━ 📂 HTTP Proxy
        ┗━━ 📓 HTTP address: example.net ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/01/config.yml"

Example 2

config/02/config.yml

---
manual:
  http_proxy:
    address: 192.168.0.1

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/02/config.yml
╭──────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Default value  │
│          Modified value │
╰─────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┣━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy
┗━━ 📂 Manual proxy configuration
    ┗━━ 📂 HTTP Proxy
        ┗━━ 📓 HTTP address: 192.168.0.1 ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/02/config.yml"

Output when invalid user datas is an error

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/02/config.yml --cli.invalid_user_datas_error
╭──────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Default value  │
│          Modified value │
╰─────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┣━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy
┗━━ 📂 Manual proxy configuration
    ┗━━ 📂 HTTP Proxy
        ┗━━ 📓 HTTP address: 192.168.0.1 ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/02/config.yml"

Example 3

config/03/config.yml

---
manual:
  http_proxy:
    address: not a valid domain name

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/03/config.yml
🔔 WARNINGS
┗━━ the value "not a valid domain name" is an invalid domain name for "manual.http_proxy.address" (HTTP address), must have dot, it will be ignored when loading from the YAML file "config/03/config.yml"
🛑 ERRORS
┗━━ The following variables are mandatory but have no value:
    ┗━━ Manual proxy configuration
        ┗━━ HTTP Proxy
            ┗━━ HTTP address

Output when invalid user datas is an error

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/03/config.yml --cli.invalid_user_datas_error
🛑 ERRORS
┗━━ the value "not a valid domain name" is an invalid domain name for "manual.http_proxy.address" (HTTP address), must have dot, it will be ignored when loading from the YAML file "config/03/config.yml"