Dancer2::Config - Configure Dancer2 to suit your needs
version 0.12
The Dancer2 configuration (as implemented by Dancer2::Core::Role::Config) handles reading and changing the configuration of your Dancer2 apps. This document describes how to manipulate Dancer2's configuration settings (through code or by file), and to document the various settings that are available in Dancer2.
You can change a setting with the keyword set:
set
use Dancer2; # changing default settings set port => 8080; set content_type => 'text/plain'; set startup_info => 0;
There's nothing wrong with using set to configure your application. In fact you might have some great reasons for doing so. For greater flexibility, ease of deployment, etc., you should also consider extracting those settings into a configuration file.
Dancer2 will first look for the file config.ext (where .ext is the type of configuration file you are using) in the root directory of your application. This is considered your global Dancer2 config file. If you do not care to have separate settings for production and development environments (not a recommended practice!), then this file is all you need.
Next, Dancer2 will look in the environments directory for a configuration file specific to the platform you are deploying to (production.ext and development.ext, for example). Any settings in these files that are named the same as settings in your global configuration file will take precedence over those settings in the global file. The rest of the settings are merged and Dancer2 uses the combination of settings from the two files as its operating configuration.
Dancer2 supports any configuration file format that is supported by Config::Any. At the time of this writing, that includes YAML (.yml and .yaml), JSON (.jsn and .json), INI (.ini), Apache-style configurations (.cnf and .conf), XML (.xml), and Perl-style hashes (.pl and .perl).
Make sure you pick the appropriate extension for your configuration file name, as Dancer2 guesses the type of format based on the file extension.
Note: Not all possibilities are covered here, only the most common options.
If you prefer YAML, a sample YAML based config file might look like this:
appname: "Hello" charset: "UTF-8" auto_page: 1 session: "YAML" serializer: "JSON" plugins: DBIC: default: dsn: dbi:SQLite:db/mydata.db schema_class: Hello::Schema
If JSON is more your thing, your file might look more like this:
{ "appname": "Hello", "charset": "UTF-8", "auto_page": "1", "session": "YAML", "serializer": "JSON", "plugins": { "DBIC": { "default": { "dsn": "dbi:SQLite:db/mydata.db", "schema_class": "Hello::Schema" } } } }
If you like Apache configuration files, try something similar to:
appname = Hello charset = UTF-8 auto_page = 1 session = YAML serializer = JSON <plugins> <DBIC> <default> dsn = dbi =SQLite =db/mydata.db schema_class = Hello = =Schema </default> </DBIC> </plugins>
INI-style files are deliberately simplistic and not recommended for use in your Dancer2 applications.
The IP address that the Dancer2 app should bind to. Default is 0.0.0.0, i.e. bind to all available interfaces.
The port Dancer2 will listen to.
Default value is 3000. This setting can be changed on the command-line with the --port switch.
If set to true, runs the standalone webserver in the background. This setting can be changed on the command-line with the --daemon flag.
If set to true, Dancer2 will look to X-Forwarded-Protocol and X-Forwarded-host when constructing URLs (for example, when using redirect). This is useful if your application is behind a proxy.
X-Forwarded-Protocol
X-Forwarded-host
redirect
The default content type of outgoing content. Default value is 'text/html'.
This setting has multiple effects:
It sets the default charset of outgoing content. charset= item will be added to Content-Type response header.
charset=
It makes Unicode bodies in HTTP responses of text/* types to be encoded to this charset.
text/*
It also indicates to Dancer2 in which charset the static files and templates are encoded.
If you're using Dancer2::Plugin::Database, UTF-8 support will automatically be enabled for your database - see "AUTOMATIC UTF-8 SUPPORT" in Dancer2::Plugin::Database
Default value is empty which means don't do anything. HTTP responses without charset will be interpreted as ISO-8859-1 by most clients.
You can cancel any charset processing by specifying your own charset in Content-Type header or by ensuring that response body leaves your handler without Unicode flag set (by encoding it into some 8bit charset, for example).
Also, since automatically serialized JSON responses have application/json Content-Type, you should always encode them by hand.
application/json
Dancer2's Dancer2::Core::MIME module uses application/data as a default mime type. This setting lets the user change it. For example, if you have a lot of files being served in the public folder that do not have an extension, and are text files, set the default_mime_type to text/plain.
application/data
default_mime_type
text/plain
This is the name of the environment that should be used. Standard Dancer2 applications have a environments folder with specific configuration files for different environments (usually development and production environments). They specify different kind of error reporting, deployment details, etc. These files are read after the generic config.yml configuration file.
environments
config.yml
The running environment can be set with:
set environment => "production";
Note that this variable is also used as a default value if other values are not defined.
This is the path where your application will live. It's where Dancer2 will look by default for your config files, templates and static content.
It is typically set by use Dancer2 to use the same directory as your script.
use Dancer2
This is the directory, where static files are stored. Any existing file in that directory will be served as a static file, before matching any route.
By default, it points to $appdir/public.
This is the directory where your templates and layouts live. It's the "view" part of MVC (model, view, controller).
This defaults to $appdir/views.
Allows you to configure which template engine should be used. For instance, to use Template Toolkit, add the following to config.yml:
template: template_toolkit
The name of the layout to use when rendering view. Dancer2 will look for a matching template in the directory $views/layout.
Your can override the default layout using the third argument of the template keyword. Check Dancer2 manpage for details.
template
Dancer2
If true, config will return an object instead of a hash reference. See Dancer2::Config::Object for more information.
config
If set to true, prints a banner at the server start with information such as versions and the environment (or "dancefloor").
Conforms to the environment variable DANCER_STARTUP_INFO.
DANCER_STARTUP_INFO
If set to true, tells Dancer2 to consider all warnings as blocking errors.
If set to true, Dancer2 will display full stack traces when a warning or a die occurs. (Internally sets Carp::Verbose). Default to false.
If set to true, Dancer2 will add an "X-Powered-By" header and also append the Dancer2 version to the "Server" header. Default to true.
You can also use the environment variable DANCER_SERVER_TOKENS.
DANCER_SERVER_TOKENS
Select which logger to use. For example, to write to log files with Dancer2::Logger::File:
logger: File
Or to direct log messages to the console from which you started your Dancer2 app with Dancer2::Logger::Console:
logger: Console
Loggers are configured with a corresponding "Logger engine" section, as shown below.
This setting lets you enable a session engine for your web application. By default, sessions are disabled in Dancer2, you must choose a session engine to use them.
Sessions are configured with a corresponding "Session engine" section, as shown below.
If set to true, Dancer2 will render a detailed debug screen whenever an error is caught. If set to false, Dancer2 will render the default error page, using $public/$error_code.html if it exists or the template specified by the error_template setting.
error_template
The error screen attempts to sanitise sensitive looking information (passwords / card numbers in the request, etc) but you still should not have show_errors enabled whilst in production, as there is still a risk of divulging details.
This setting lets you specify a template to be used in case of runtime error. At the present moment the template can use three variables:
The error title.
The error message.
The code throwing that error.
The logger must be configured in a separate engines section, like so:
engines
logger: Console engines: logger: Console: log_level: core
All loggers support the configuration options below. See documentation for a particular logger for other supported options.
This option tells which log messages should be actually logged. Possible values are core, info, debug, warning or error.
During development, you'll probably want to use debug to see your own debug messages, and core if you need to see what Dancer2 is doing. In production, you'll likely want error or warning only, for less-chatty logs.
debug
core
error
warning
The session engine is configured in the engines section.
session: Simple engines: session: Simple: cookie_name: dance.set cookie_duration: '24 hours' is_secure: 1 is_http_only: 1
See Dancer2::Core::Role::SessionFactory for more detailed documentation for these options, or the particular session engine for other supported options.
The name of the cookie to store the session ID in. Defaults to dancer.session. This can be overridden by certain session engines.
dancer.session
The domain of the cookie. By default there is no domain defined for the cookie.
The path of the cookie. By default there is no path defined for the cookie.
The session expiry time in seconds, or as e.g. "2 hours" (see "expires" in Dancer2::Core::Cookie. By default, there is no specific expiry time.
The user's session ID is stored in a cookie. If the is_secure setting is set to a true value, the cookie will be marked as secure, meaning it should only be sent over HTTPS connections.
is_secure
This setting defaults to 1 and instructs the session cookie to be created with the HttpOnly option active, meaning that JavaScript will not be able to access to its value.
HttpOnly
For simple pages where you're not doing anything dynamic, but still want to use the template engine to provide headers etc, you can use the auto_page feature to avoid the need to create a route for each page.
With auto_page enabled, if the requested path does not match any specific route, Dancer2 will check in the views directory for a matching template, and use it to satisfy the request if found.
auto_page
Simply enable auto_page in your config:
auto_page: 1
Then, if you request /foo/bar, Dancer2 will look in the views dir for /foo/bar.tt.
/foo/bar
/foo/bar.tt
Dancer2 will honor your before_template_render code, and all default variables. They will be accessible and interpolated on automatic served pages.
before_template_render
It's possible to set the configuration directory and environment directory using this two environment variables. Setting DANCER_CONFDIR will have the same effect as doing
set confdir => '/path/to/confdir'
and setting DANCER_ENVDIR will be similar to:
set envdir => '/path/to/environments'
Dancer Core Developers
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Alexis Sukrieh.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Dancer2, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Dancer2
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Dancer2
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.