clap-ts 0.3.0 → 0.4.0

package/src/config.ts

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+/**
+ * Configuration file loading, layered under the command line and environment.
+ *
+ * ```ts
+ * import { loadConfig } from 'clap-ts/config';
+ *
+ * const config = loadConfig('mytool');
+ * await runMain(main, { config: config?.values });
+ * ```
+ *
+ * Precedence ends up as command line, then environment, then config file, then
+ * the argument's own default. `ctx.valueSources` reports which one won.
+ *
+ * Only JSON is understood out of the box, which keeps this dependency-free.
+ * Point `parse` at a TOML or YAML reader to accept those.
+ *
+ * The search costs one `existsSync` per candidate per directory, so it is
+ * O(directories x candidates) and independent of how many files those
+ * directories hold. Listing each directory once instead would be one syscall
+ * per level, but `readdirSync` is O(entries): measured against a 2000-entry
+ * directory it took 117us where four `existsSync` calls took 2.4us. Walking up
+ * through a large directory is exactly the case that has to stay cheap.
+ */
+
+import { readFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { homedir } from 'node:os';
+
+/** A loaded configuration file. */
+export interface LoadedConfig {
+  /** The parsed contents, ready for `RunOptions.config`. */
+  readonly values: Record<string, unknown>;
+  /** Absolute path of the file the values came from. */
+  readonly path: string;
+}
+
+export interface ConfigOptions {
+  /**
+   * File names to look for, in order of preference. Defaults to
+   * `.<name>rc`, `.<name>rc.json`, `<name>.config.json` and `.config/<name>.json`.
+   */
+  readonly files?: readonly string[];
+  /** Directory to start searching from (default: `process.cwd()`). */
+  readonly cwd?: string;
+  /** Stop searching at this directory, inclusive (default: the home directory). */
+  readonly stopAt?: string;
+  /**
+   * Read this key out of a `package.json` found during the walk. Defaults to
+   * the tool name; pass `null` to skip package.json entirely.
+   */
+  readonly packageJsonKey?: string | null;
+  /** Parse a file's text. Defaults to `JSON.parse`. */
+  readonly parse?: (text: string, path: string) => unknown;
+  /** Load exactly this file and skip the search. */
+  readonly path?: string;
+  /** Search parent directories as well as `cwd` (default: true). */
+  readonly searchParents?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Stop once a directory holding `package.json` or `.git` has been examined.
+   * Cuts the walk to the project, which is where a project's config lives.
+   */
+  readonly stopAtProjectRoot?: boolean;
+}
+
+/** The home directory never changes within a process. */
+const HOME = homedir();
+
+const defaultFileCache = new Map<string, readonly string[]>();
+
+function defaultFiles(name: string): readonly string[] {
+  let files = defaultFileCache.get(name);
+  if (files === undefined) {
+    files = [`.${name}rc`, `.${name}rc.json`, `${name}.config.json`, `.config/${name}.json`];
+    defaultFileCache.set(name, files);
+  }
+  return files;
+}
+
+function asRecord(value: unknown, path: string): Record<string, unknown> {
+  if (value === null || typeof value !== 'object' || Array.isArray(value)) {
+    throw new Error(`config at ${path} must be an object`);
+  }
+  return value as Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+function readOne(path: string, parse: (text: string, path: string) => unknown): LoadedConfig {
+  let text: string;
+  try {
+    text = readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
+  } catch (error) {
+    const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+    throw new Error(`cannot read config at ${path}: ${message}`);
+  }
+  try {
+    return { values: asRecord(parse(text, path), path), path };
+  } catch (error) {
+    const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+    throw new Error(`cannot parse config at ${path}: ${message}`);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Find and read the nearest configuration file, walking up from `cwd`.
+ *
+ * Returns `undefined` when nothing is found, and throws only when a file exists
+ * but cannot be read or parsed: a broken config should be loud, a missing one
+ * should not.
+ */
+export function loadConfig(name: string, opts?: ConfigOptions): LoadedConfig | undefined {
+  const parse = opts?.parse ?? ((text: string) => JSON.parse(text) as unknown);
+
+  if (opts?.path !== undefined) {
+    return readOne(resolve(opts.path), parse);
+  }
+
+  const files = opts?.files ?? defaultFiles(name);
+  const packageKey = opts?.packageJsonKey === undefined ? name : opts.packageJsonKey;
+  const stopAt = resolve(opts?.stopAt ?? HOME);
+  const searchParents = opts?.searchParents !== false;
+
+  let dir = resolve(opts?.cwd ?? process.cwd());
+  for (;;) {
+    for (const file of files) {
+      // Template concatenation rather than join(): join normalises, which this
+      // does not need, and the walk runs this on every candidate at every level.
+      const candidate = `${dir}/${file}`;
+      if (existsSync(candidate)) {
+        return readOne(candidate, parse);
+      }
+    }
+
+    let atProjectRoot = false;
+    if (packageKey !== null || opts?.stopAtProjectRoot === true) {
+      const pkgPath = `${dir}/package.json`;
+      if (existsSync(pkgPath)) {
+        atProjectRoot = true;
+        if (packageKey !== null) {
+          const section = readOne(pkgPath, parse).values[packageKey];
+          if (section !== undefined) {
+            return { values: asRecord(section, pkgPath), path: pkgPath };
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (!searchParents) {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+    if (opts?.stopAtProjectRoot === true && (atProjectRoot || existsSync(`${dir}/.git`))) {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+    const parent = dirname(dir);
+    if (parent === dir || dir === stopAt) {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+    dir = parent;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Load a config and hand back the run options to spread into `runMain`.
+ *
+ * ```ts
+ * await runMain(main, { ...configOptions('mytool') });
+ * ```
+ */
+export function configOptions(
+  name: string,
+  opts?: ConfigOptions,
+): { config: () => Record<string, unknown> | undefined } {
+  // A thunk, so runMain only searches the filesystem when some argument is
+  // still on its default.
+  let cached: Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+  let loadedOnce = false;
+  return {
+    config: () => {
+      if (!loadedOnce) {
+        cached = loadConfig(name, opts)?.values;
+        loadedOnce = true;
+      }
+      return cached;
+    },
+  };
+}