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Fatih Arslan
Fatih Arslan

Reputation: 17157

Should user data be stored in a config file?

I'm developing a CLI for a web todolist service. I'm done with the backend and have just started to write the CLI functions. Before I start, I tought what the best way was to store user data. I'm using ConfigParser for storing user specified preferencies. These are stored in ~/.confrc.

The user data is in the form of Json. I'm using Python for my project. I'm getting these in the form of:

{"user_id": 1, "name": "Project_name", "color": "#ff8581", "collapsed": 0, "item_order": 1, "cache_count": 13, "indent": 1, "id": 455831}

Should I store this data to a configuration file, that will be proccessed via ConfigParser ? This may be good idea at first, but a project might have a name that is used by another project. Thus I can't store them via the RawConfigParser.set(). I could store them via the id, as they are unique, but than the conf file itself would be very clutter.

What would the best way to store a simple todolist user data ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 417

Answers (1)

Ryan Li
Ryan Li

Reputation: 9340

If there is only one file to store, using ~/.${PROJECT}rc is a good idea, otherwise, use a separate directory ~/.${PROJECT}.

You could also refer to the XDG Base Directory Specification.

Upvotes: 5

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