Difference between revisions of "Configuration File"
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The Crawler INI files have the following properties: | The Crawler INI files have the following properties: | ||
| − | * Section and entry names are case-insensitive | + | * Section and entry names are case-insensitive by default (but Crawler has built-in support for case-sensitive INI files should the need arise). |
* Comment lines are supported. Prefixing a line with a '#' or a ';' makes it a comment line. In-line comments are not supported: a single line is either a comment line or it is not - comments on lines with data are not supported. For example: | * Comment lines are supported. Prefixing a line with a '#' or a ';' makes it a comment line. In-line comments are not supported: a single line is either a comment line or it is not - comments on lines with data are not supported. For example: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
Revision as of 05:49, 27 December 2013
Configuration File
Crawler's personalities are driven to a great extent by means of configuration files.
There is no hard rule that dictates how these configuration files should be created - they could be text files, INI-files, XML-based files,...
Because .INI files are easy to understand for end-users, most of the pre-made personalities use .INI-based configuration files.
For more popular personalities, GUI-driven configuration tools might be provided, but in many cases, the GUI-development might lag, in which case the next easiest method to (re)configure a Crawler personality is to edit one or more configuration files.
INI file
Basic INI files are a loosely defined de-facto standard; more info can be found here.
The Crawler INI files have the following properties:
- Section and entry names are case-insensitive by default (but Crawler has built-in support for case-sensitive INI files should the need arise).
- Comment lines are supported. Prefixing a line with a '#' or a ';' makes it a comment line. In-line comments are not supported: a single line is either a comment line or it is not - comments on lines with data are not supported. For example:
entry = test # test
means to set entry to "test # test"
