Esteemed monks,

I'm reading a configuration file using Config::General and validating it via Config::Validate. The goal is to reject the configuration and die if there are any errors in it.

One of the requirements I want to impose is that some configuration keys shouldn't be repeated. When I repeat a key, Config::General creates an array to hold all the given values. I expect Config::Validate to reject that array (since it's not a plain string) but that's not happening. Funnily, if I tell Config::Validate that I want an integer instead of a string, it does die as desired.

Here is some code to show the problem:

#!/opt/QNDperl5.10/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.010;
use Data::Dumper;
use Config::General;
use Config::Validate;

my $schema = {
    section => {
        type => 'nested',
        child => {
            key => {
                ## change this to see the code die if 'integer' is use
+d
                type => 'string',
                #type => 'integer',
            },
        },
    },
};

my $cfgfile = <<'EOF';
<section>
    key Foo
    key Bar
</section>
EOF

my $config = Config::General->new (-String => $cfgfile);
print Dumper { $config->getall };  ## you can see the array that Confi
+g::General creates
Config::Validate->new (schema => $schema)->validate (config => $config
+);
say "Still alive!";

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How do I reject such a configuration?

Update: I just reported this bug.

--
 David Serrano
 (Please treat my english text just like Perl code, i.e. feel free to notify me of any syntax, grammar, style and/or spelling error. Thank you!).

In reply to Config::Validate: problem with a key type by Hue-Bond

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