but using that code - how would I edit fileds?

Config == conf_obj no?

yeah I guessed so

Since your aim is to end up with content you can paste into apiserver.conf (which is not loaded by Trains)

I'll tr yto work with that

Not sure about that...

If you need to change the values:
config_obj.set(...)You might want to edit the object on a copy, not the original 🙂

whatttt? I looked at config_obj didn't find any set method

Another Q on that - does pyhocon allows me to edit the file while keeping the comments in place?

The only way to change it is to convert apiserver_conf to a dictionary object ( as_plain_ordered_dict() ) and edit it

What about:
apiserver_conf.put( "auth.fixed_users.users", list(apiserver_conf.get("auth.fixed_users.users", [])) + [{'username': username, 'password': password, 'name': name}] )

Confirmed working 😄

essentially editing apiserver.conf section auth.fixed_users.users

I'll try

SuccessfulKoala55 this actually doesn't work

` apiserver_conf = ConfigFactory.parse_file(API_SERVER_CONF_PATH)

POINT 1

conf_content = HOCONConverter.to_hocon(config=ConfigFactory.from_dict(apiserver_conf.as_plain_ordered_dict()),
compact=False,
level=0, indent=2)

apiserver_conf['auth']['fixed_users']['users'].append(
ConfigFactory.from_dict({'username': username, 'password': password, 'name': name}))

POINT 2

new_conf_content = HOCONConverter.to_hocon(config=ConfigFactory.from_dict(apiserver_conf.as_plain_ordered_dict()),
compact=False,
level=0, indent=2) Strangely enough running this code results in new_conf_content == conf_content to be True . Seems like through this ConfigTree ` object I can't really apply changes on the configuration file

even though I apply append

👍

AgitatedDove14 permanent. I want to start with a CLI interface that allows me add users to the trains server

WackyRabbit7 in that case:
from trains.utilities.pyhocon import ConfigFactory, HOCONConverter from trains.config import config_obj new_conf_text = HOCONConverter.to_hocon(config=ConfigFactory.from_dict(config_obj.as_plain_ordered_dict()), compact=False, level=0, indent=2) print(new_conf_text)

it will return a Config object right?

it seems apiserver_conf doesn't even change

yeah I know

However, that can easily be done using ConfigFactory.parse_file("apiserver.conf")

later today or tomorrow, I'll update

Sorry my bad:
config_obj['sdk']['stuff']['here'] = value

it will return a

Config

object right?

Will return a ConfigTree object which behaves the same way

okay, that's acceptable

BTW: you will be loosing the comments 😞

WackyRabbit7 please note that if your aim is to edit the Server's configuration, you'll need to do that without the config_obj loaded by Trains

https://github.com/allegroai/trains/blob/master/trains/backend_config/config.py