[fix] Config panel doc

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! Please: Keep in mind the YunoHost spirit, and try to build your panels in such a way as to expose only really useful parameters, and if there are many of them, to relegate those corresponding to rarer use cases to "Advanced" sub-sections.
## How does config_panel.toml work
## How does `config_panel.toml` work
Basically, configuration panels for apps uses at least a `config_panel.toml` at the root of your package. For advanced usecases, this TOML file could also be paired with a `config` script inside the scripts directory of your package.
The `config_panel.toml` file describes one or several panels, containing some sections, containing some questions generally binded to a params in a configuration file.
We supposed we have an upstream app with this simple config.yml file:
```
```yaml
title: 'My dummy apps'
theme: 'white'
max_rate: 10
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ max_age: 365
```
We could for example create a simple configuration panel for it like this one, by following the syntax `\[PANEL.SECTION.QUESTION\]`:
```
```toml
version = "1.0"
[main]
@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Here we have created one `main` panel, containing the `main` and `limits` sectio
For performance reasons, questions short keys should be unique in all the `config_panel.toml` file, not just inside its panel or its section.
So you can't have
```
```toml
[manual.vpn.server_ip]
[advanced.dns.server_ip]
```
@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ If you have not defined a specific getter/setter (see bellow), and without `bind
If you want to read and save the value into a variable (called like the option name) of a file (json, yaml, ini, php, py ...) you can do:
```
```toml
bind = ":__INSTALL_DIR__/config.yml"
```
If you want to read and save the value into an other variable than the `config_panel.toml` question short key (email in the example) of a file (json, yaml, ini, php, py ...) you can do:
```
```toml
bind = "email:__FINALPATH__/config.yml"
```
@ -100,14 +100,14 @@ bind = "email:__FINALPATH__/config.yml"
Sometimes, you want to read and save a value in a variable name that appears several time in the configuration file (for example variables called `max`). The `bind` property allows you to change the value on the variable following a regex in a the file:
```
```toml
bind = "importExportRateLimiting>max:__INSTALL_DIR__/conf.json"
```
#### Read / write an entire file
If you have a question of type file or text you could want to save the content into a specific path on the system.
```
```toml
bind = "__INSTALL_DIR__/img/logo.png"
```
@ -125,6 +125,19 @@ For all of those use cases, there are the specific getter or setter mechanism fo
To create specific getter / setter, you first need to create a `config` script inside the `scripts` directory
scripts/config
```bash
#!/bin/bash
source /usr/share/yunohost/helpers
ynh_abort_if_errors
# Put your getter, setter and validator here
# Keep this last line
ynh_app_config_run $1
```
#### Getter
A getter is a bash function called `getter_QUESTION_SHORT_KEY()` which returns data through stdout.
@ -135,7 +148,7 @@ Returns could have 2 formats:
[details summary="<i>Basic example : Get the login inside the first line of a file </i>" class="helper-card-subtitle text-muted"]
scripts/config
```
```bash
get__login_user() {
if [ -s /etc/openvpn/keys/credentials ]
then
@ -147,7 +160,7 @@ get__login_user() {
```
config_panel.toml
```
```toml
[main.auth.login_user]
ask = "Username"
type = "string"
@ -156,14 +169,14 @@ type = "string"
[details summary="<i>Advanced example 1 : Display a list of available plugins</i>" class="helper-card-subtitle text-muted"]
scripts/config
```
```bash
get__plugins() {
echo "choices: [$(ls $install_dir/plugins/ | tr '\n' ',')]"
}
```
config_panel.toml
```
```toml
[main.plugins.plugins]
ask = "Plugin to activate"
type = "tags"
@ -173,7 +186,7 @@ config_panel.toml
[details summary="<i>Example 2 : Display the status of a VPN</i>" class="helper-card-subtitle text-muted"]
scripts/config
```
```bash
get__status() {
if [ -f "/sys/class/net/tun0/operstate" ] && [ "$(cat /sys/class/net/tun0/operstate)" == "up" ]
then
@ -193,7 +206,7 @@ EOF
```
config_panel.toml
```
```toml
[main.cube.status]
ask = "Custom getter alert"
type = "alert"
@ -210,7 +223,7 @@ You probably should use `ynh_print_info` in order to display info for user about
[details summary="<i>Basic example : Set the login into the first line of a file </i>" class="helper-card-subtitle text-muted"]
scripts/config
```
```bash
set__login_user() {
if [ -z "${login_user}" ]
then
@ -221,7 +234,7 @@ set__login_user() {
```
config_panel.toml
```
```toml
[main.auth.login_user]
ask = "Username"
type = "string"
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You will often need to validate data answered by the user before to save it somewhere.
Validation can be made with regex through `pattern` argument
```
```toml
pattern.regexp = '^.+@.+$'
pattern.error = 'An email is required for this field'
```
You can also restrict several types with a choices list.
```
```toml
choices.option1 = "Plop1"
choices.option2 = "Plop2"
choices.option3 = "Plop3"
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| ----- | --------------------------- |
| `number`, `range` | `min`, `max`, `step` |
| `file` | `accept` |
| `tags` | `limit` |
| `boolean` | `yes` `no` |
Finally, if you need specific or multi variable validation, you can use custom validators function:
```
```bash
validate__login_user() {
if [[ "${#login_user}" -lt 4 ]]; then echo 'Too short user login'; fi
}
@ -265,7 +277,7 @@ validate__login_user() {
You can use the services key to specify which service need to be reloaded or restarted
```
```toml
services = [ 'nginx', '__APP__' ]
```
@ -275,7 +287,7 @@ This argument could be on panel, section, or question.
All main configuration helpers are overwritable, example:
```
```bash
ynh_app_config_apply() {
# Stop vpn client

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| Property | Scope | Description | Example |
|----------|--------------|-------------|---------|
| `type` | Everywhere | Specify the type of the question (see bellow for the list) | |
| `type` | Everywhere | Specify the type of the question (see bellow for the list) | `type = "string"` |
| `ask` | Everywhere | The title of the question | `ask.en = "Cats or dogs ?"` |
| `help` | Everywhere | An help message | `help.en = "Think carefully!"` |
| `optional`| Everywhere | Set true if the question is not mandatory | `optional = true` |
| `readonly`| Everywhere | Avoid user to be able to change the value | `readonly = true` |
| `example` | Everywhere | Give an example to help to understand the format of the answer||
| `pattern.regexp` | Everywhere | Regex to validate the new value||
| `pattern.error` | Everywhere | Error to display if the pattern doesn't match ||
| `example` | Everywhere | Give an example to help to understand the format of the answer| `example = "camille@example.com"` |
| `pattern.regexp` | Everywhere | Regex to validate the new value| `pattern.regexp = "^.+@.+$"` |
| `pattern.error` | Everywhere | Error to display if the pattern doesn't match | |
| `redact` | Everywhere | Avoid a confidential value to be logged | `redact = true` |
| `default` | Install | A default value for the question | |
| `visible` | ConfigPanel | A simple js expression based on other short keys questions to hide or display dynamically the question| `visible = "login && ! private_key"` |
| `bind` | AppConfigPanel | See [App configuration panel doc](/packaging_config_panels) |
| `bind` | AppConfigPanel | See [App configuration panel doc](/packaging_config_panels) | `bind = "__INSTALL_DIR__/config.yml"` |
* `help`, `optional`, `readonly` and `visible` are also available on panels and sections entities.
* Long help messages could not to be correctly displayed for user using yunohost CLI
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### `file`
File question
| Property | Description | Example |
|----------|--------------|---------|
| `accept` | Same format than HTML file input | |
@ -117,11 +118,15 @@ File question
! This file type is not made for big files transfer, it's just for small logo, or config files.
### `select`
Dropdown
| Property | Description | Example |
|----------|--------------|---------|
| `choices` | list or dictionary of choices | |
### `tags`
Multi choices selection.
| Property | Description | Example |
|----------|--------------|---------|
| `choices` | List or dictionary of choices | |