Class ConfigFile

Utility class used to access the SuperOffice entry in the Config file.

Inheritance

object

ConfigFile

Inherited Members

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

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Namespace: SuperOffice.Configuration

Assembly: SoCore.dll

Syntax

public static class ConfigFile

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

Properties

IsOnline

Return true if this config is set up for SuperOffice Online: appSettings/IsOnline = true

Declaration

public static bool IsOnline { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
bool

Remarks

Also checks appSettings/ConfigServiceBaseUrl and appSettings/PublicApiUrl for URL-ish values if the Online value cannot be found.

Methods

AddOverride(string, string, string)

Set an override for a Config file value. All such overrides should be made before the first call to SoSession.Authenticate, as later calls may not be honoured (no retroactive effects!).

Declaration

public static bool AddOverride(string path, string name, string value)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	path	Path of config item, such as 'SuperOffice/Data/Database'
string	name	Name of value to be overridden, such as 'Server'
string	value	Value to substitute over the config file value, such as 'myTestServer'

Returns

Type	Description
bool	true if there was already an override for this path/name combination, false if not. The last call to AddOverride wins!

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

AddOverrides(string[,])

Add multiple overrides in one batch. The last call to AddOverride wins!

Declaration

public static bool AddOverrides(string[,] overrides)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string[,]	overrides	Multi-dimensional array of overrides: (("path", "key", "val"),("path2", "key2", "val2"), etc)

Returns

Type	Description
bool	True if there was already an override for one of the path/name combinations, false if not.

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

ForceOverrideIsOnline(bool)

WARNING: Test-only method. This method is only meant to be used within unit-tests which needs to check online-specific behaviour.

Invoking this function should never be done from regular, production code.

Event in tests, using this method directly is not really recommended, but instead one should use the TemporaryOnlineState helper-class.

Declaration

public static void ForceOverrideIsOnline(bool isOnline)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
bool	isOnline

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

GetAllOverrides()

Get all overrides added to config as multi-dimensional string array.

Declaration

public static string[,] GetAllOverrides()

Returns

Type	Description
string[,]	string multi-dimensional array: (("path/to/key", "name", "value"),("path/to/key", "name2", "value2"))

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

GetAppSetting(string)

Read a setting of the AppSettings-portion of the config file, based on the configured .config-file actually used by NetServer.

Declaration

public static string GetAppSetting(string key)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	key

Returns

Type	Description
string

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

GetConfig(string)

Read a section of the config file, apply overrides and return the set of name/value pairs

Declaration

public static NameValueCollection GetConfig(string key)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	key	Section path, such as "SuperOffice/Data/Explicit"

Returns

Type	Description
NameValueCollection	Collection of name/value, including overrides

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

HasOverride(string, string)

Check if the config value is overrided. This is needed in some cases where we don't want to override the overrides.

Declaration

public static bool HasOverride(string path, string keyName)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	path
string	keyName

Returns

Type	Description
bool	bool true if the config value is overrided

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

RemoveAllOverrides()

Remove all overrides that have been set for config values. Remember that this is not retroactive for values that have already been read by business logic code.

Declaration

public static void RemoveAllOverrides()

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

RemoveOverride(string, string)

Remove one override. If not found, nothing happens

Declaration

public static void RemoveOverride(string path, string name)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	path
string	name

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.

SetConfigFile(string)

Set the name of the .config file that NetServer is to use from now on. Previously read items will still be retained; new lookups will come from here.

Declaration

public static void SetConfigFile(string filePath)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	filePath

Remarks

This method should be used before proper NetServer startup/authentication. As with the AddOverride(string, string, string) method, it updates internal structures, but does not flush already-read configuration information (which of course influence things like assmelby loading etc; no way we could retroactively change those).

ToValueList(NameValueCollection)

Utility class used to access the SuperOffice entry in the Config file.

Declaration

public static List<string> ToValueList(this NameValueCollection col)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
NameValueCollection	col

Returns

Type	Description
List<string>

Remarks

IMPORTANT:

Avoid reading directly from configurationfile like this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Security/Sentry");

Instead use this;

_values = (NameValueCollection)ConfigFile.GetConfig("SuperOffice/Diagnostics");

This enables the code to check for missing configuration files, and missing xml sections, thus, enabling the code to throw appropriate exceptions.