Values inside of a dictionary seems not to work

[jazzband]

Values inside of a dictionary seems not to work

[mauricioabreu]

I am not answering your question, I know, but I think it would be easier to use https://github.com/kennethreitz/dj-database-url

Why?

Because it handles all your dict values like a URL. And you just need to do:

DATABASES = values.DatabaseURLValue()

And set your environment variable.

[mauricioabreu]

It also is written in the docs AFAIK

[sassman]

i'm totally aware of that. Database url and elastic beanstalk is an own topic (don't ask)

but nevertheless IMO this pointed out issue is basically serios for all kind of values that are kind of "hidden" or wrapped inside of a datastructure like the dict, list or set.

[mauricioabreu]

You have a good point. I am reading the source trying to find a reason.

[sassman]

Currently I play around with a solution for this. Unfortunately IMO it require a conceptual change:

Curretly:
The Configuration class currently is the access point for the values. The setup_values function in conjunction with accessing values thru Configuraiton class makes sure the values are stored and returned to accessors correctly.

The solution:
setup_values push the "name" of the variable from the Configuration class attribute into the value classes as now. But then the values are loaded into the value classes itself and they behave as proxy objects. So whenever a value is accessed directly it will return the wrapped value as the expected type.

Let me show some examples.
currently:

>>> from configurations import values
>>> v = values.Value(environ_name='HOME', environ_prefix='')
>>> v
<Value default: None>

in future:

>>> from configurations import values                                                                                                                                                                                   
>>> v = values.Value(environ_name='HOME', environ_prefix='')
>>> v                                                                                                                                                                                                               
/home/sassman                                                                                                                                                                                                           

It would be very kind if the maintainer can tell me if that direction would be accepted for a merge request or not.

Thanks in Advance

[mauricioabreu]

I am very curious about it too. That is a nice catch!