Support dynamic configuration

README.md

@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ or your target capture file is just not there, you can selfhost the server part
 
 That's it! If you're using custom port make sure it's the same as in the extension settings (default is `12212`).
 
+## Configuration
+
+[Here](https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp/blob/af24c991579986cec73695daa8318e7831049305/server/org_tools.py#L91-L109) you can find some references for the `--template` syntax.
+
+If you are looking for more flexible formatting that's not supported by template syntax, see [config.py.example](misc/config.py.example).
+You can modify it to your liking and pass as `--config` to `grasp_server/setup` scripts.
+
 # Motivation
 Why use org-capture? Well, it's hard to explain, maybe some other time... However, if you do know you want to use it instead of/alongside your browser bookmarks, by default
 you don't have much choice and have to copy everything manually. For an experienced enough org-mode user it's no less than a torture. 

misc/config.py.example

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+from typing import List
+
+class Config:
+    @staticmethod
+    def format_selection(selection: str) -> List[str]:
+        return [
+            '#+begin_quote',
+            selection,
+            '#+end_quote',
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def format_comment(comment: str) -> List[str]:
+        return [
+            '- comment:'
+        ] + [
+            # colon is a quck way to define blocks of code/preformatted stuff: https://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-Examples.html
+            ' : ' + s
+            for s in comment.splitlines()
+        ]

server/grasp_server.py

@@ -6,17 +6,19 @@ import os
 import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 import re
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any
 
 from org_tools import as_org, empty, DEFAULT_TEMPLATE, Config
 
-CAPTURE_PATH_VAR = 'GRASP_CAPTURE_PATH'
+CAPTURE_PATH_VAR     = 'GRASP_CAPTURE_PATH'
 CAPTURE_TEMPLATE_VAR = 'GRASP_CAPTURE_TEMPLATE'
+CAPTURE_CONFIG_VAR   = 'GRASP_CAPTURE_CONFIG'
 
 
 def get_logger():
     return logging.getLogger('grasp-server')
 
+
 def append_org(
         path: Path,
         org: str
@@ -32,6 +34,19 @@ def append_org(
         fo.write(org)
 
 
+from functools import lru_cache
+@lru_cache(1)
+def capture_config() -> Optional[Config]:
+    cvar = os.environ.get(CAPTURE_CONFIG_VAR)
+    if cvar is None:
+        return None
+
+    globs: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+    exec(Path(cvar).read_text(), globs)
+    ConfigClass = globs['Config']
+    return ConfigClass()
+
+
 def capture(
         url: str,
         title,
@@ -48,6 +63,7 @@ def capture(
             return s
     capture_path = Path(os.environ[CAPTURE_PATH_VAR]).expanduser()
     org_template = os.environ[CAPTURE_TEMPLATE_VAR]
+    config = capture_config()
     logger.info('capturing %s to %s', (url, title, selection, comment, tag_str), capture_path)
 
     url = safe(url)
@@ -68,6 +84,7 @@ def capture(
         comment=comment,
         tags=tags,
         org_template=org_template,
+        config=config,
     )
     append_org(
         path=capture_path,
@@ -111,13 +128,15 @@ class GraspRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             self.respond_error(message=str(e))
 
 
-def run(port: str, capture_path: str, template: str):
+def run(port: str, capture_path: str, template: str, config: Optional[Path]):
     logger = get_logger()
     logger.info("Using template %s", template)
 
     # not sure if there is a simpler way to communicate with the server...
     os.environ[CAPTURE_PATH_VAR] = capture_path
     os.environ[CAPTURE_TEMPLATE_VAR] = template
+    if config is not None:
+        os.environ[CAPTURE_CONFIG_VAR] = str(config)
     httpd = HTTPServer(('', int(port)), GraspRequestHandler)
     logger.info(f"Starting httpd on port {port}")
     httpd.serve_forever()
@@ -129,6 +148,8 @@ def setup_parser(p):
     p.add_argument('--template', type=str, default=DEFAULT_TEMPLATE, help=f"""
     {as_org.__doc__}
     """)
+    abspath = lambda p: str(Path(p).absolute())
+    p.add_argument('--config', type=abspath, required=False, help='Optional dynamic config')
 
 
 def main():
@@ -137,7 +158,7 @@ def main():
     p = argparse.ArgumentParser('grasp server', formatter_class=lambda prog: argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter(prog, width=100)) # type: ignore
     setup_parser(p)
     args = p.parse_args()
-    run(args.port, args.path, args.template)
+    run(args.port, args.path, args.template, args.config)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()

server/setup

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ def setup(args):
         '--port', args.port,
         '--path', args.path,
         '--template', template,
+        *([] if args.config is None else ['--config'  , args.config]),
     ]
     extra_args = ' '.join(map(shlex.quote, args))