reworking this to make it more sane. hopefully.

1 files changed, 81 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config.Load.go b/config.Load.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b960508
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.Load.go
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+package config
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"os/user"
+	"path/filepath"
+)
+
+// loads your applications config file from
+// ~/.config/<appname>/config.text
+func (pb *Config) Load() error {
+	appname, err := GetAppname() // already configured by your application
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	configdir, err := getConfigDir()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	filename := filepath.Join(configdir, appname+".text")
+	_, err = SetFilename(pb, filename)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	saveMu.Lock()
+	defer saveMu.Unlock()
+	err = loadTEXT(pb, filename)
+	return err
+}
+
+func GetAppname() (string, error) {
+	if APPNAME != "" {
+		return APPNAME, nil
+	}
+	return "", errors.New("your application must setup config.Init()")
+}
+
+func GetUsername() string {
+	if Get("username") != "" {
+		return Get("username")
+	}
+	usr, _ := user.Current()
+	if usr.Username != "" {
+		return usr.Username
+	}
+	return "notsure" // OS Idiocracy
+}
+
+func getCacheDir() (string, error) {
+	if Get("cacheDir") != "" {
+		return Get("cacheDir"), nil
+	}
+
+	cacheDir, _ := os.UserCacheDir()
+
+	appname, err := GetAppname() // application should have already configured this
+	if err != nil {
+		return cacheDir, err
+	}
+
+	return filepath.Join(cacheDir, appname), nil
+}
+
+func getConfigDir() (string, error) {
+	if Get("configDir") != "" {
+		return Get("configDir"), nil
+	}
+
+	configDir, _ := os.UserConfigDir()
+
+	appname, err := GetAppname() // application should have already configured this
+	if err != nil {
+		return configDir, err
+	}
+
+	return filepath.Join(configDir, appname), nil
+}