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Hi Alistair,

Modules can register their own options and there is no need to call reload_config_files. The config files are parsed and values stored in case the option is later declared. The only time you need to reload files is if you add new config files in the new module. See the example code:

from oslo.config import cfg
with open("foo", "w") as f:
    f.write("[DEFAULT]\nfoo=bar")

cfg.CONF(["--config-file", "foo"])
try:
    print cfg.CONF.foo
except cfg.NoSuchOptError:
    print "NO OPT"
    # OUT: 'NO OPT'

cfg.CONF.register_opt(cfg.StrOpt("foo"))
print cfg.CONF.foo
cfg.CONF.foo
# OUT: ‘bar'

One thing to keep in mind is you don’t want to use config values at import time, since this tends to be before the config files have been loaded.

Vish

On Aug 8, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Coles, Alistair <alistair.coles at hp.com> wrote:

> I’ve been looking at the implications of applying oslo.config in Swift, and I have a question about the best pattern for registering options.
>  
> Looking at how keystone uses oslo.config, the pattern seems to be to have all options declared and registered 'up-front' in a single place (keystone/common/config.py) before loading wsgi pipeline/starting the service. Is there another usage pattern where each middleware registers its options independently ‘on-demand’ rather than maintaining them all in a single place?
>  
> I read about a pattern [1] whereby modules register opts during import, but does that require there to be some point in the lifecycle where all required modules are imported *before* parsing config files? Seems like that would mean parsing the wsgi pipeline to ‘discover’ the middleware modules being used, importing all those modules, then parsing config files, then loading the wsgi pipeline?
>  
> OR - is it acceptable for each middleware module to register its own options if/when it is imported during wsgi pipeline loading (CONF.register_options()) and then call CONF.reload_config_files() ?
>  
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>  
> [1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/oslo.config/cfg.html#global-configopts
>  
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