Simple config

Add configuration handling to a project (argument parsing, config files, environment variables, and so on) without having to add lots of boilerplate code.

Features

Simpleconfig supports the following:

• Basic node types like string, integer, float and boolean.
• Nested nodes using dictionaries and arrays.
• "get" and "set" functions for the various types.
• Iterators to traverse through nodes in dictionaries and arrays.
• Config map to define command-line options, environment variables, default values, validation callback functions, etc.
• Configuration files in YAML format.
• Automatically generate usage strings (usually used with -h/--help).

Requirements

libyaml is needed to build simpleconfig.

Build

Build using vanilla CMake

Simpleconfig can be built like most other cmake projects:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

Build using Conan Package Manager

It's also possible to build simpleconfig using Conan:

conan profile detect
conan install . --output-folder build --build=missing
cd build
source conanbuild.sh
cmake --preset conan-release ..
make
make install
source deactivate_conanbuild.sh

Example

See examples/minimal.c for an example showing off the basics of simpleconfig.

API

Check out the header file (include/sconf.h).

Testing

The unit tests can be executed by running:

make test
make coverage  # to get a coverage report

Fuzzing with AFL++

Support for fuzzing with AFL++ is added to the project.

After installing AFL++, fuzzers for simpleconfig could be built in the following way:

AFL_HARDEN=1 CC=afl-clang-fast cmake .. -DSCONF_ENABLE_COVERAGE=ON -DSCONF_ENABLE_ASAN=ON -DSCONF_BUILD_FUZZERS=ON
make

It is wise to enable ASAN (as above) when fuzzing. Also remember to create a directory with input files (corpus) for the fuzzer.

The fuzzers could then be executed with afl-fuzz like this:

ASAN_OPTIONS=verbosity=3,abort_on_error=1 afl-fuzz -m none -i in/ -o out/ fuzz/fuzz_sconf_yaml_read