IPython/html/services/config/manager.py

"""Manager to read and modify frontend config data in JSON files.
"""
# Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
import errno
import io
import json
import os

from IPython.config import LoggingConfigurable
from IPython.utils.path import locate_profile
from IPython.utils.py3compat import PY3
from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode


def recursive_update(target, new):
    """Recursively update one dictionary using another.

    None values will delete their keys.
    """
    for k, v in new.items():
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            if k not in target:
                target[k] = {}
            recursive_update(target[k], v)
            if not target[k]:
                # Prune empty subdicts
                del target[k]

        elif v is None:
            target.pop(k, None)

        else:
            target[k] = v


class ConfigManager(LoggingConfigurable):
    profile_dir = Unicode()
    def _profile_dir_default(self):
        return locate_profile()

    @property
    def config_dir(self):
        return os.path.join(self.profile_dir, 'nbconfig')

    def ensure_config_dir_exists(self):
        try:
            os.mkdir(self.config_dir, 0o755)
        except OSError as e:
            if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                raise

    def file_name(self, section_name):
        return os.path.join(self.config_dir, section_name+'.json')

    def get(self, section_name):
        """Retrieve the config data for the specified section.

        Returns the data as a dictionary, or an empty dictionary if the file
        doesn't exist.
        """
        filename = self.file_name(section_name)
        if os.path.isfile(filename):
            with io.open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as f:
                return json.load(f)
        else:
            return {}

    def set(self, section_name, data):
        """Store the given config data.
        """
        filename = self.file_name(section_name)
        self.ensure_config_dir_exists()

        if PY3:
            f = io.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
        else:
            f = open(filename, 'wb')
        with f:
            json.dump(data, f)

    def update(self, section_name, new_data):
        """Modify the config section by recursively updating it with new_data.

        Returns the modified config data as a dictionary.
        """
        data = self.get(section_name)
        recursive_update(data, new_data)
        self.set(section_name, data)
        return data