Read/write settings in XDG_CONFIG_HOME

[xavdid]

Describe the problem

When using the libby commands, the token is written to the local folder. This is convenient if you only work in a single folder, but it would be nice if followed the (fairly standard) XDG Base Directory convention. So, the default settings config (if not specified; you could keep the flag) would be ~/.config/odmpy.

You can put the settings there manually with the --settings flag, but it's annoying to type that for every operation.

Version/Environment

odmpy 0.7.9 [Python 3.11.3-darwin]

[ping]

Thanks for the suggestion.

But switching out the default settings folder now will likely break things for users that use the defaults (without explicitly specifying --settings), so that's a no-go for me.

odmpy looks to an env var named LIBBY_TOKEN for Libby authentication. You can find that value if you open libby.json in your settings folder and look for the identity value (should start with "eyJ"). If you set up LIBBY_TOKEN in env, odmpy will ignore the settings folder. This feature has not been documented and probably not heavily tested, so I'll be happy to take any bug reports if you wish to give it a try.

One more thing that may not help much in your case, but if you use the same set of command options often, you can put them in a config file and reference it.

odmpy libby @ex.conf

example.conf

[xavdid]

But switching out the default settings folder now will likely break things for users that use the defaults (without explicitly specifying --settings), so that's a no-go for me.

I appreciate your commitment to stability. 😁 Assuming the default is currently your pwd, you could potentially ship this backwards-compatibly by checking first for a local settings file and falling back to the xdg dir if there's no auth file (or explicit flag). This way, existing users can continue to pick up local settings (if present), the flag still works, and new users get a better default.

Either way, the env var should work for my purposes. Feel free to close this if it's not something you're interested in.

[ping]

I actually like your suggestion, so I'll keep this open until I can get around to working on it.

[ping]

This has been implemented on the master branch.

[xavdid]

Thank you!

[ping]

Closing because this is now available from the latest v0.8.0 release.