xdg-parse

node-xdg-parse

XDG configuration files syntax parser

Usage :

var {parse} = require("xdg-parse");
fs.readFile("your_conf_file",function(err,data){
  if(err){
    //Do something
  }
  var conf = parse(data);
})

Localized entries

Freedesktop offers the possibility to localize comments, names, etc... like :

[Section]
Name=app name
Name[fr]= nom du programme

By giving xdg-parse an extra locale argument, one can retrieve those lines instead of the default when available.

parse(data,"fr"); //locale is case insensitive

Serialization

data can be serialized back to a text file. However it is not compliant with the specification as the serialized file is stripped of its comments and blank lines.

Improvements

Array are not parsed. That's because I could not find strong evidence under which circumstances a comma / semicolon separated list of values should be considered an array. It seems to be up to the implementor to choose which keys are to be a list and which are to be plain text.

Contributing

feel free to provide any test material that might prove this parser faulty.