public void CreateConfigFile(SampleRunnerOptions options, out string newConfigFilePath)
{
newConfigFilePath = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), Path.GetRandomFileName() + ".config");
ExeConfigurationFileMap fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap {
ExeConfigFilename = newConfigFilePath
};
var config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None, options.EnablePreloadConfigFileCheckBox);
// Create configuration
var section = new ValidationSampleSection();
// NOTE: Can really be any name, but the same name must be used when reading.
config.Sections.Add("validationSampleSection", section);
var foo = new Samples.Configuration.ValidationSample.Foo();
foo.Baz = "I have dots!..."; // Exception will fire here!
section.Foo = foo;
config.Save();
}
private void RunConfigDemo_Validation(ConfigurationFile configFile)
{
try
{
//var group = config.GetSectionGroup("SampleConfigurationGroup") as ConfigurationSectionGroup;
//WriteResult("\tgroup: {0}\r\n", group.Sections[0]);
// With groups, we MUST find this way!!!
//var section = group.Sections[0] as ValidationSampleSection; // config.Sections["validationSampleSection"] as ValidationSampleSection;
//var section = config.Sections["validationSampleSection"] as ValidationSampleSection;
/** OBSERVATIONS:
* + Validation exceptions are thrown in order of property ACCESS. They are not thrown when loading section...
* When not loading section through default config, property validation isn't pre-executed.
* */
// Not working... Manager not used when manually load file. Causes validators to not call on GetSection????
//WriteResult("\tValidationSampleSection.Instance.anythingButDots: {0}\r\n", ValidationSampleSection.Instance.anythingButDots);
//ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration()
//ValidationSampleSection section = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("validationSampleSection") as ValidationSampleSection;
ValidationSampleSection section = null;
/**
* Below, there is some custom logic not present in other samples. This logic was used as "an experiment" and
* will be better organized into a seperate component.
* */
if (checkBox1.Checked)
{
WriteResult("*** About to use CustomAppConfig.Change to load section as though it were default app.config!");
WriteResult("\r\n");
// Not working as I was expecting....
using (AppConfigRedirector.Change(configFile.ConfigFilePath))
{
// the app.config in tempFileName is used
section = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("validationSampleSection") as ValidationSampleSection;
//section = ValidationSampleSection.Instance;
WriteResult("*** Now attempting to read properties. If properties were validated during section load, this message would never be shown!");
WriteResult("\r\n");
WriteResult("\tsection.anythingButDots: {0}\r\n", section.AnythingButDots);
WriteResult("\tsection.Foo.Baz: {0}\r\n", section.Foo.Baz);
//WriteResult("\tsection.Bars[0].noDots: {0}\r\n", section.Bars[0].noDots);
}
}
else
{
// IMPORTANT: For this test and all others, validation error handling is NOT the same as what you
// would expect, because here, we load config via EXEMAP. Special error handling must be added when loading
// config via exemap! In default app.config, all validation errors are collected in a list and are included in
// a thrown exception at the end. For manual file load, NO validation exception results until property is accessed (I will
// provide detailed document as to why later). However, you still have access to list of errors. You
// will need to iterate through the errors and throw your own ConfigurationErrorsException for this
// to behave as expected.
// Below, I demonstrate how to access this list of errors.
WriteResult("\r\n[[ NOTE ]] This sample includes Special validation logic below. See MainForm.cs source for more info.\r\n");
//if ((configFile.CurrentConfiguration == null) && configFile.IsTempFile)
if (configFile == null)
{
WriteResult("\r\n[ NOTE ] Configuration could not be loaded! (possible reason) If we were trying to create a temp config file with a bad attribute, it would never be written to file and this NULL would result.\r\n");
}
section = configFile.CurrentConfiguration.GetSection("validationSampleSection") as ValidationSampleSection;
var errs = section.ElementInformation.Errors;
if (errs.Count > 0)
{
WriteResult("\r\n[[ ERROR(s) REPORTED! ]] Config loader returned a list of 1 or more validation errors:\r\n");
foreach (ConfigurationErrorsException err in errs)
{
WriteResult("\r\n* ERROR: {0}\r\n", err.ToString());
if (err.Errors.Count > 1)
{
foreach (ConfigurationErrorsException interr in err.Errors)
{
WriteResult("\r\n*** INNER {0}\r\n", interr.ToString());
}
}
}
}
WriteResult("\r\n*** Now attempting to read properties. If properties were validated during section load, this message would never be shown!");
WriteResult("\r\n");
WriteResult("\tsection.anythingButDots: {0}\r\n", section.AnythingButDots);
WriteResult("\tsection.Foo.Baz: {0}\r\n", section.Foo.Baz);
WriteResult("\tsection.Bars[0].noDots: {0}\r\n", section.Bars[0].NoDots);
}
// section = config.GetSection("validationSampleSection") as ValidationSampleSection;
// section.CurrentConfiguration.EvaluationContext.GetSection()
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
WriteErrorResult(ex);
}
finally
{
WriteEndResult();
}
}
