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@@ -12,11 +12,27 @@ import Control.Monad.State (StateT (..))
import Data.Text (Text)
+-- | An abstraction over "config sources". This might mean file formats,
+-- environment variables, or any other kind of format that can be seen as a
+-- key-value store.
class ConfigSource s where
+ -- | Some sources require state, e.g. to keep track of which values were
+ -- already read.
type SourceState s
+
+ -- | read a single value from the source.
fetchValue :: Key -> s -> StateT (SourceState s) IO (Either ConfigError (Value, Text))
+
+ -- | given @s@, determine if any keys are "left over" and were not used.
+ -- This is used to produce warnings for unknown configuration options;
+ -- since not all sources can support this, this function's return type
+ -- includes @Maybe@ and sources are free to return @Nothing@ if they
+ -- cannot determine if any unknown keys are present.
leftovers :: s -> StateT (SourceState s) IO (Maybe [Key])
+-- | An opaque type for any kind of config sources. Values of this type can be
+-- acquired from they @Conftrack.Source.*@ modules, or by implementing the
+-- 'ConfigSource' type class.
data SomeSource = forall source. ConfigSource source
=> SomeSource (source, SourceState source)