[SSSD] Multi-line values in INI

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Apr 15 15:09:47 UTC 2010


On 04/15/2010 11:07 AM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 09:23 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> Can we please come at this issue from the right direction? The reason
>> that this is even being debated is because we learned of another program
>> (certmonger) that is using INI files to store binary data.
>>
>> THIS IS WRONG.
>>
> ...
>> In conclusion: I think attempting to solve the newline/escape problem in
>> libini_config itself is both too complex and too limiting. It is more
>> complexity being added to the libini_config than a simple INI file
>> parser needs to have, and by implementing any particular approach to
>> managing the data, we are limiting is usability to only those use-cases
>> that we can come up with.
>
> Not that I am really part of the SSSD project, but +1 from me anyway.
> Very sensible reasoning.
>

Actually, input from outside our project is probably more valuable. We 
intend for libini_config to be available for use by any project that 
wants it.

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