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namespace Cake\Core\Configure\Engine;
use Cake\Core\Configure\ConfigEngineInterface;
use Cake\Core\Configure\FileConfigTrait;
use Cake\Core\Exception\Exception;
* JSON engine allows Configure to load configuration values from
* files containing JSON strings.
* An example JSON file would look like::
class JsonConfig implements ConfigEngineInterface
protected $_extension = '.json';
* Constructor for JSON Config file reading.
* @param string|null $path The path to read config files from. Defaults to CONFIG.
public function __construct($path = null)
* Read a config file and return its contents.
* Files with `.` in the name will be treated as values in plugins. Instead of
* reading from the initialized path, plugin keys will be located using Plugin::path().
* @param string $key The identifier to read from. If the key has a . it will be treated
* @return array Parsed configuration values.
* @throws \Cake\Core\Exception\Exception When files don't exist or when
* files contain '..' (as this could lead to abusive reads) or when there
* is an error parsing the JSON string.
public function read($key)
$file = $this->_getFilePath($key, true);
$values = json_decode(file_get_contents($file), true);
if (json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
throw new Exception(sprintf(
'Error parsing JSON string fetched from config file "%s.json": %s',
if (!is_array($values)) {
throw new Exception(sprintf(
'Decoding JSON config file "%s.json" did not return an array',
* Converts the provided $data into a JSON string that can be used saved
* into a file and loaded later.
* @param string $key The identifier to write to. If the key has a . it will
* be treated as a plugin prefix.
* @param array $data Data to dump.
public function dump($key, array $data)
$filename = $this->_getFilePath($key);
return file_put_contents($filename, json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)) > 0;