Support semicolons as comments in keyvalue config

source/mirage/java.d

@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@
 module mirage.java;
 
 import mirage.config : ConfigDictionary;
-import mirage.keyvalue : KeyValueConfigFactory;
+import mirage.keyvalue : KeyValueConfigFactory, SupportHashtagComments, SupportSemicolonComments;
 
 /** 
  * Creates configuration files from Java properties.
  */
-class JavaPropertiesFactory : KeyValueConfigFactory {
+class JavaPropertiesFactory : KeyValueConfigFactory!(
+    SupportHashtagComments.yes,
+    SupportSemicolonComments.no
+) {
 }
 
 /** 

source/mirage/keyvalue.d

@@ -17,12 +17,19 @@ import std.string : lineSplitter, strip, startsWith, split, indexOf;
 import std.array : array;
 import std.exception : enforce;
 import std.conv : to;
+import std.typecons : Flag;
+
+alias SupportHashtagComments = Flag!"supportHashtagComment";
+alias SupportSemicolonComments = Flag!"supportSemicolonComments";
 
 /** 
  * A generic reusable key/value config factory that can be configured to parse
  * the specifics of certain key/value formats.
  */
-class KeyValueConfigFactory : ConfigFactory {
+class KeyValueConfigFactory(
+    SupportHashtagComments supportHashtagComments = SupportHashtagComments.no,
+    SupportSemicolonComments supportSemicolonComments = SupportSemicolonComments.no
+) : ConfigFactory {
     /**
      * Parse a configuration file following the configured key/value conventions.
      *
@@ -35,14 +42,25 @@ class KeyValueConfigFactory : ConfigFactory {
         auto lines = contents.lineSplitter().array;
         auto properties = new ConfigDictionary();
         foreach (size_t index, string line; lines) {
-            auto normalizedLine = line.strip;
-            if (normalizedLine.length == 0 || normalizedLine.startsWith('#')) {
-                continue;
+            auto normalizedLine = line;
+
+            if (supportHashtagComments) {
+                auto commentPosition = normalizedLine.indexOf('#');
+                if (commentPosition >= 0) {
+                    normalizedLine = normalizedLine[0 .. commentPosition];
+                }
             }
 
-            auto commentPosition = normalizedLine.indexOf('#');
-            if (commentPosition >= 0) {
-                normalizedLine = normalizedLine[0 .. commentPosition];
+            if (supportSemicolonComments) {
+                auto commentPosition = normalizedLine.indexOf(';');
+                if (commentPosition >= 0) {
+                    normalizedLine = normalizedLine[0 .. commentPosition];
+                }
+            }
+
+            normalizedLine = normalizedLine.strip;
+            if (normalizedLine.length == 0) {
+                continue;
             }
 
             auto parts = normalizedLine.split('=');
@@ -60,10 +78,12 @@ version (unittest) {
     import std.exception : assertThrown;
     import std.process : environment;
 
+    class TestKeyValueConfigFactory : KeyValueConfigFactory!() {
+    }
+
     @("Parse standard key/value config")
     unittest {
-        auto config = new KeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("
-            # I have a comment
+        auto config = new TestKeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("
             bla=one
             di.bla=two
         ");
@@ -72,29 +92,43 @@ version (unittest) {
         assert(config.get("di.bla") == "two");
     }
 
+    @("Parse and ignore comments")
+    unittest {
+        auto config = new KeyValueConfigFactory!(SupportHashtagComments.yes,
+            SupportSemicolonComments.yes
+        )().parseConfig("
+            # this is a comment
+            ; this is another comment
+            iamset=true
+        ");
+
+        assert(config.get!bool("iamset"));
+    }
+
     @("Fail to parse when there are too many equals signs")
     unittest {
-        assertThrown!ConfigCreationException(new KeyValueConfigFactory()
+        assertThrown!ConfigCreationException(new TestKeyValueConfigFactory()
                 .parseConfig("one=two=three"));
     }
 
     @("Fail to parse when value assignment is missing")
     unittest {
-        assertThrown!ConfigCreationException(new KeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig(
-                "answertolife"));
+        assertThrown!ConfigCreationException(new TestKeyValueConfigFactory()
+                .parseConfig(
+                    "answertolife"));
     }
 
     @("Substitute env vars")
     unittest {
         environment["MIRAGE_TEST_ENVY"] = "Much";
-        auto config = new KeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("envy=$MIRAGE_TEST_ENVY");
+        auto config = new TestKeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("envy=$MIRAGE_TEST_ENVY");
 
         assert(config.get("envy") == "Much");
     }
 
     @("Use value from other key")
     unittest {
-        auto config = new KeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("
+        auto config = new TestKeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("
             one=money
             two=${one}
         ");
@@ -104,7 +138,7 @@ version (unittest) {
 
     @("Values and keys are trimmed")
     unittest {
-        auto config = new KeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("
+        auto config = new TestKeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("
             one    =       money
         ");
 
@@ -113,10 +147,13 @@ version (unittest) {
 
     @("Remove end-of-line comments")
     unittest {
-        auto config = new KeyValueConfigFactory().parseConfig("
+        auto config = new KeyValueConfigFactory!(SupportHashtagComments.yes,
+            SupportSemicolonComments.yes)().parseConfig("
             server=localhost #todo: change me. default=localhost when not set.
+            port=9876; I think this port = right?
         ");
 
         assert(config.get("server") == "localhost");
+        assert(config.get("port") == "9876");
     }
 }