Yet Another Config Library for C++

About

YACL is a library for operating configs with large and complex hierarchy. Library is designed to be as simple as possible to read configs and operate on them in code.

Tested OS/Compilers

• Windows 10, MSVC 1914
• Ubuntu 16.04, Clang 5.0.1
• Ubuntu 16.04, G++ 5.4.0

Installation

YACL is using cmake to build the project.

Build example provided below

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. && cmake --build .

Documentation

All documentation can be found in doc/ folder. It's generated with doxygen.

Usage

#include <YACL/config.h>
int main() {
  const yacl::SettingsUniquePtr root = yacl::Config::parseConfigFromFile("config.yacl");
  yacl::Config::printConfig(*root);

  int var1 = *root->field("var1");
  std::string var2 = *root->field("var2");
  std::string var3 = *root->field("var3");

  return 0;
}

Other examples can be found in example/ folder.

Todo List

• Add gtest
• Add write functionality
• Matrix type support
• Python, Java, ObjC wrappers
• Add crypt and convert to binary