Create the settings dbus object.
Host settings are specified in a yaml file.
Parser converts the yaml file into a dictionary.
The settings manager runs on the BMC and uses the dictionary to
create the dbus properties and save the values in the BMC so that
the values persist.
diff --git a/settings_parser.py b/settings_parser.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python -u
+
+# Simple parser to create a python dictionary from a yaml file.
+# It saves the applications from doing the parsing and
+# adding dependencies to additional modules like yaml
+
+import yaml
+
+SETTINGS_FILE = 'settings.yaml'
+OUTPUT_FILE = 'settings_file.py'
+FILE_HEADER = '#!/usr/bin/python -u'
+
+with open(SETTINGS_FILE) as s:
+ data = yaml.safe_load(s)
+
+with open(OUTPUT_FILE, 'w') as f:
+ f.write(FILE_HEADER)
+ f.write('\n')
+ f.write('SETTINGS=')
+ f.write(str(data))