Add ini.stringify functionality, a test, and some TODOs in ini.js

lib/ini.js

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+// TODO:
+// 1. Handle quoted strings, including line breaks, so that this:
+//    foo = "bar
+//      baz"
+//    parses to {foo:"bar\n  baz"}
+// 2. Escape with \, so that this:
+//    foo = bar\
+//      \"baz
+//    parses to {foo:"bar\n  \"baz"}
+
 exports.parse = function(d) {
   var ini = {'-':{}};
 
@@ -26,4 +36,31 @@ exports.parse = function(d) {
   }
 
   return ini;
+};
+
+function safe (val) {
+  return (val+"").replace(/[\n\r]+/g, " ");
+}
+
+exports.stringify = function (obj) {
+  // if the obj has a "-" section, then do that first.
+  var ini = "";
+  if ("-" in obj) {
+    for (var key in obj["-"]) {
+      ini += safe(key)+" = "+safe(obj["-"][key])+"\n";
+    }
   }
+  for (var section in obj) if (section !== "-") {
+    ini += "[" + safe(section) + "]\n";
+    for (var key in obj[section]) {
+
+      ini += safe(key) + ((obj[section][key] === true)
+        ? "\n"
+        : " = "+safe(obj[section][key])+"\n");
+    }
+  }
+  return ini;
+};
+
+exports.encode = exports.stringify;
+exports.decode = exports.parse;

test/simple/test-ini.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require("../common");
-var path = require('path');
+var path = require('path'),
-var fs = require("fs");
+  fs = require("fs"),
+  ini = require("ini"),
   parse = require("ini").parse;
 
 debug("load fixtures/fixture.ini");
@@ -15,8 +16,7 @@ fs.readFile(p,function(err, data) {
   var iniContents = parse(data);
   assert.equal(typeof iniContents, 'object');
   
-  var expect =
+  var expect = { "-" :
-    { "-" :
                  { "root" : "something"
                  , "url" : "http://example.com/?foo=bar"
                  }
@@ -34,13 +34,26 @@ fs.readFile(p,function(err, data) {
                  { "something else" : "blah"
                  , "remove" : "whitespace"
                  }
-    };
+               },
+    expectStr = "root = something\n"+
+                "url = http://example.com/?foo=bar\n"+
+                "[the section with whitespace]\n"+
+                "this has whitespace = yep\n"+
+                "just a flag, no value.\n"+
+                "[section]\n"+
+                "one = two\n"+
+                "Foo = Bar\n"+
+                "this = Your Mother!\n"+
+                "blank = \n"+
+                "[Section Two]\n"+
+                "something else = blah\n"+
+                "remove = whitespace\n";
 
   assert.deepEqual(iniContents, expect,
-    "actual: \n"+inspect(iniContents) +"\n≠\nexpected:\n"+inspect(expect))
+    "actual: \n"+inspect(iniContents) +"\n≠\nexpected:\n"+inspect(expect));
-
-  assert.equal(iniContents['-']['root'],'something');
-  assert.equal(iniContents['section']['blank'],'');
-  assert.equal(iniContents['Section Two']['remove'],'whitespace');
 
+  assert.equal(ini.stringify(iniContents), expectStr,
+    "actual: \n"+inspect(ini.stringify(iniContents)) +"\n≠\nexpected:\n"+inspect(expectStr));
 });
+
+