v0.12.5: settings loader allow empty block

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # MARK: Project info
 [project]
 name = "corelibs"
-version = "0.12.4"
+version = "0.12.5"
 description = "Collection of utils for Python scripts"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.13"

src/corelibs/config_handling/settings_loader.py

@@ -66,7 +66,12 @@ class SettingsLoader:
         self._check_settings_abort: bool = False
 
     # MARK: load settings
-    def load_settings(self, config_id: str, config_validate: dict[str, list[str]]) -> dict[str, str]:
+    def load_settings(
+        self,
+        config_id: str,
+        config_validate: dict[str, list[str]],
+        allow_not_exist: bool = False
+    ) -> dict[str, str]:
         """
         neutral settings loader
 
@@ -84,9 +89,12 @@ class SettingsLoader:
         - convert: convert to int, float -> if element is number convert, else leave as is
         - empty: convert empty to, if nothing set on the right side then convert to None type
 
+        TODO: there should be a config/options argument for general settings
+
         Args:
             config_id (str): what block to load
-            config_allowed (list[str]): list of allowed entries sets
+            config_validate (dict[str, list[str]]): list of allowed entries sets
+            allow_not_exist (bool): If set to True, does not throw an error, but returns empty set
 
         Returns:
             dict[str, str]: key = value list
@@ -99,6 +107,8 @@ class SettingsLoader:
                 # load all data as is, validation is done afterwards
                 settings[config_id] = dict(self.config_parser[config_id])
             except KeyError as e:
+                if allow_not_exist is True:
+                    return {}
                 self.__print(
                     f"[!] Cannot read [{config_id}] block in the {self.config_file}: {e}",
                     'CRITICAL', raise_exception=True