simple-ini

simple-ini

simple-ini provides easy way to work with INI-files. INI-files format definition has been taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file.

Usage

var SimpleIni = require('simple-ini');

var data = [
        '[owner]',
        'name=John Doe',
        'organization=Acme Widgets Inc.',
        'description=This is long long \\',
        '            long long text.'
    ];
    
var simpleIni = new SimpleIni(function() { 
        return data.join('\n');
    });

if (simpleIni.hasSection('owner')) {
    console.log(simpleIni.get('owner.name'));
    console.log(simpleIni.get('owner.organization'));
    console.log(simpleIni.get('owner.description'));
}

Installation

Install via npm:

npm install simple-ini

API Documentation

• SimpleIni(loadFunction, options) - simple-ini constructor. loadFunction returns INI-file content. options are used to configure INI-file parser.

• save(saveFunction) - persists INI-file changes. saveFunction is a function which stores the file.

• hasSection(section) - checks if the section exists.

• hasProperty(property, section) - checks if the property exists in the section. If the section is not specified then it checks if global property exists.

• get(config) - Gets property's value. config might be 'section.property' or just 'property'. If the config is just a 'property' then the library tries to get the global property.

Options

• caseSensitive - if the parser is case sensitive or not. Default value is false.

• comments - the list of characters which specify comments. Default value is ';'.

• throwOnDuplicate - Ignores or throws an exception on duplicated. Bu default the library throws an exception.

• allowGlobalProperties - Are global properties allowed. By default they are allowed.

• delimiter - key - value pairs delimiter. By default it is '='.

• quotedValues - use ''' or '"' for values. By default they are ignored.

• ignoreWhitespace - Ignored whitespace at the beginning and at the end of a value. Default value is false.

• lineSeparator - INI-file lines separator. By default it is '\n'.