From 54d3d47daf9190275bbdaf8703b84969a4593451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Hulen Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:31:34 -0700 Subject: PLT-6076 Adding viper libs for config file changes (#5871) * Adding viper libs for config file changes * Removing the old fsnotify lib * updating some missing libs --- vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/README.md | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 125 insertions(+) create mode 100644 vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/README.md (limited to 'vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/README.md') diff --git a/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/README.md b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c8223326d --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,125 @@ +# HCL + +[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/hcl?status.png)](https://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/hcl) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hashicorp/hcl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/hashicorp/hcl) + +HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) is a configuration language built +by HashiCorp. The goal of HCL is to build a structured configuration language +that is both human and machine friendly for use with command-line tools, but +specifically targeted towards DevOps tools, servers, etc. + +HCL is also fully JSON compatible. That is, JSON can be used as completely +valid input to a system expecting HCL. This helps makes systems +interoperable with other systems. + +HCL is heavily inspired by +[libucl](https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl), +nginx configuration, and others similar. + +## Why? + +A common question when viewing HCL is to ask the question: why not +JSON, YAML, etc.? + +Prior to HCL, the tools we built at [HashiCorp](http://www.hashicorp.com) +used a variety of configuration languages from full programming languages +such as Ruby to complete data structure languages such as JSON. What we +learned is that some people wanted human-friendly configuration languages +and some people wanted machine-friendly languages. + +JSON fits a nice balance in this, but is fairly verbose and most +importantly doesn't support comments. With YAML, we found that beginners +had a really hard time determining what the actual structure was, and +ended up guessing more often than not whether to use a hyphen, colon, etc. +in order to represent some configuration key. + +Full programming languages such as Ruby enable complex behavior +a configuration language shouldn't usually allow, and also forces +people to learn some set of Ruby. + +Because of this, we decided to create our own configuration language +that is JSON-compatible. Our configuration language (HCL) is designed +to be written and modified by humans. The API for HCL allows JSON +as an input so that it is also machine-friendly (machines can generate +JSON instead of trying to generate HCL). + +Our goal with HCL is not to alienate other configuration languages. +It is instead to provide HCL as a specialized language for our tools, +and JSON as the interoperability layer. + +## Syntax + +For a complete grammar, please see the parser itself. A high-level overview +of the syntax and grammar is listed here. + + * Single line comments start with `#` or `//` + + * Multi-line comments are wrapped in `/*` and `*/`. Nested block comments + are not allowed. A multi-line comment (also known as a block comment) + terminates at the first `*/` found. + + * Values are assigned with the syntax `key = value` (whitespace doesn't + matter). The value can be any primitive: a string, number, boolean, + object, or list. + + * Strings are double-quoted and can contain any UTF-8 characters. + Example: `"Hello, World"` + + * Multi-line strings start with `<