From a01bec718ea6e1dcfb0b885d836dc524c060cee3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Goffi <goffi@goffi.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:53:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tools (config): complexe data can now be set using json and
 the "_json" suffix

---
 src/tools/config.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/tools/config.py b/src/tools/config.py
index 3e2c5f33..4b97f6ac 100644
--- a/src/tools/config.py
+++ b/src/tools/config.py
@@ -111,4 +111,9 @@ def getConfig(config, section, name, default=None):
             raise exceptions.ParsingError(u"Error while parsing data: {}".format(e))
         if not isinstance(value, dict):
             raise exceptions.ParsingError(u"{name} value is not a dict: {value}".format(name=name, value=value))
+    elif name.endswith('_json'):
+        try:
+            value = json.loads(value)
+        except ValueError as e:
+            raise exceptions.ParsingError(u"Error while parsing data: {}".format(e))
     return value