Get rid of the SimpleNamespace for configuration since it complicates config change detection

SimpleNamespace's documentation does not say anything about equality tests, which is why the update_config methods checked the relevant values using a tuple instead. But as more config values are added, this makes the comparisons unnecessarily long. A dict simplifies this. As a side-effect, the constraints of the maps keys being a valid identifier are no longer relevant either.

http2irc.py

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import signal
 import ssl
 import sys
 import toml
-import types
 
 
 logging.basicConfig(level = logging.DEBUG, format = '{asctime} {levelname} {message}', style = '{')
@@ -23,11 +22,6 @@ class InvalidConfig(Exception):
 	'''Error in configuration file'''
 
 
-def _mapping_to_namespace(d):
-	'''Converts a mapping (e.g. dict) to a types.SimpleNamespace, recursively'''
-	return types.SimpleNamespace(**{key: _mapping_to_namespace(value) if isinstance(value, collections.abc.Mapping) else value for key, value in d.items()})
-
-
 def is_valid_pem(path, withCert):
 	'''Very basic check whether something looks like a valid PEM certificate'''
 	try:
@@ -51,13 +45,10 @@ def is_valid_pem(path, withCert):
 		return False
 
 
-class Config:
+class Config(dict):
 	def __init__(self, filename):
+		super().__init__()
 		self._filename = filename
-		# Set below:
-		self.irc = None
-		self.web = None
-		self.maps = None
 
 		with open(self._filename, 'r') as fp:
 			obj = toml.load(fp)
@@ -107,9 +98,7 @@ class Config:
 				raise InvalidConfig('Invalid web port')
 		if 'maps' in obj:
 			for key, map_ in obj['maps'].items():
-				# Ensure that the key is a valid Python identifier since it will be set as an attribute in the namespace.
-				#TODO: Support for fancier identifiers (PEP 3131)?
-				if not isinstance(key, str) or not key or key.strip('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_') != '' or key[0].strip('0123456789') == '':
+				if not isinstance(key, str) or not key:
 					raise InvalidConfig(f'Invalid map key {key!r}')
 				if not isinstance(map_, collections.abc.Mapping):
 					raise InvalidConfig(f'Invalid map for {key!r}')
@@ -118,7 +107,7 @@ class Config:
 				#TODO: Check values
 
 		# Default values
-		self._obj = {'irc': {'host': 'irc.hackint.org', 'port': 6697, 'ssl': 'yes', 'nick': 'h2ibot', 'real': 'I am an http2irc bot.', 'certfile': None, 'certkeyfile': None}, 'web': {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8080}, 'maps': {}}
+		finalObj = {'irc': {'host': 'irc.hackint.org', 'port': 6697, 'ssl': 'yes', 'nick': 'h2ibot', 'real': 'I am an http2irc bot.', 'certfile': None, 'certkeyfile': None}, 'web': {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8080}, 'maps': {}}
 
 		# Fill in default values for the maps
 		for key, map_ in obj['maps'].items():
@@ -129,14 +118,14 @@ class Config:
 			if 'auth' not in map_:
 				map_['auth'] = False
 
-		# Merge in what was read from the config file and convert to SimpleNamespace
+		# Merge in what was read from the config file and set keys on self
 		for key in ('irc', 'web', 'maps'):
 			if key in obj:
-				self._obj[key].update(obj[key])
-			setattr(self, key, _mapping_to_namespace(self._obj[key]))
+				finalObj[key].update(obj[key])
+			self[key] = finalObj[key]
 
 	def __repr__(self):
-		return f'Config(irc={self.irc!r}, web={self.web!r}, maps={self.maps!r})'
+		return f'<Config(irc={self["irc"]!r}, web={self["web"]!r}, maps={self["maps"]!r})>'
 
 	def reread(self):
 		return Config(self._filename)
@@ -212,9 +201,9 @@ class IRCClientProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):
 		logging.info('Connected')
 		self.transport = transport
 		self.connected = True
-		nickb = self.config.irc.nick.encode('utf-8')
+		nickb = self.config['irc']['nick'].encode('utf-8')
 		self.send(b'NICK ' + nickb)
-		self.send(b'USER ' + nickb + b' ' + nickb + b' ' + nickb + b' :' + self.config.irc.real.encode('utf-8'))
+		self.send(b'USER ' + nickb + b' ' + nickb + b' ' + nickb + b' :' + self.config['irc']['real'].encode('utf-8'))
 
 	def update_channels(self, channels: set):
 		channelsToPart = self.channels - channels
@@ -323,28 +312,28 @@ class IRCClient:
 	def __init__(self, messageQueue, config):
 		self.messageQueue = messageQueue
 		self.config = config
-		self.channels = {map_.ircchannel for map_ in config.maps.__dict__.values()}
+		self.channels = {map_['ircchannel'] for map_ in config['maps'].values()}
 
 		self._transport = None
 		self._protocol = None
 
 	def update_config(self, config):
-		needReconnect = (self.config.irc.host, self.config.irc.port, self.config.irc.ssl) != (config.irc.host, config.irc.port, config.irc.ssl)
+		needReconnect = self.config['irc'] != config['irc']
 		self.config = config
 		if self._transport: # if currently connected:
 			if needReconnect:
 				self._transport.close()
 			else:
-				self.channels = {map_.ircchannel for map_ in config.maps.__dict__.values()}
+				self.channels = {map_['ircchannel'] for map_ in config['maps'].values()}
 				self._protocol.update_channels(self.channels)
 
 	def _get_ssl_context(self):
-		ctx = SSL_CONTEXTS[self.config.irc.ssl]
-		if self.config.irc.certfile and self.config.irc.certkeyfile:
+		ctx = SSL_CONTEXTS[self.config['irc']['ssl']]
+		if self.config['irc']['certfile'] and self.config['irc']['certkeyfile']:
 			if ctx is True:
 				ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
 			if isinstance(ctx, ssl.SSLContext):
-				ctx.load_cert_chain(self.config.irc.certfile, keyfile = self.config.irc.certkeyfile)
+				ctx.load_cert_chain(self.config['irc']['certfile'], keyfile = self.config['irc']['certkeyfile'])
 		return ctx
 
 	async def run(self, loop, sigintEvent):
@@ -352,7 +341,7 @@ class IRCClient:
 		while True:
 			connectionClosedEvent.clear()
 			try:
-				self._transport, self._protocol = await loop.create_connection(lambda: IRCClientProtocol(self.messageQueue, connectionClosedEvent, loop, self.config, self.channels), self.config.irc.host, self.config.irc.port, ssl = self._get_ssl_context())
+				self._transport, self._protocol = await loop.create_connection(lambda: IRCClientProtocol(self.messageQueue, connectionClosedEvent, loop, self.config, self.channels), self.config['irc']['host'], self.config['irc']['port'], ssl = self._get_ssl_context())
 				try:
 					await asyncio.wait((connectionClosedEvent.wait(), sigintEvent.wait()), return_when = concurrent.futures.FIRST_COMPLETED)
 				finally:
@@ -377,8 +366,8 @@ class WebServer:
 		self.update_config(config)
 
 	def update_config(self, config):
-		self._paths = {map_.webpath: (map_.ircchannel, f'Basic {base64.b64encode(map_.auth.encode("utf-8")).decode("utf-8")}' if map_.auth else False) for map_ in config.maps.__dict__.values()}
-		needRebind = (self.config.web.host, self.config.web.port) != (config.web.host, config.web.port)
+		self._paths = {map_['webpath']: (map_['ircchannel'], f'Basic {base64.b64encode(map_["auth"].encode("utf-8")).decode("utf-8")}' if map_['auth'] else False) for map_ in config['maps'].values()}
+		needRebind = self.config['web'] != config['web']
 		self.config = config
 		if needRebind:
 			#TODO
@@ -387,7 +376,7 @@ class WebServer:
 	async def run(self, stopEvent):
 		runner = aiohttp.web.AppRunner(self._app)
 		await runner.setup()
-		site = aiohttp.web.TCPSite(runner, self.config.web.host, self.config.web.port)
+		site = aiohttp.web.TCPSite(runner, self.config['web']['host'], self.config['web']['port'])
 		await site.start()
 		await stopEvent.wait()
 		await runner.cleanup()