docs/yaml/objects/cfg_data.yaml

name: cfg_data
long_name: Configuration data object
description: |
  This object encapsulates configuration values to be used for generating
  configuration files. A more in-depth description can be found in the
  [the configuration page](Configuration.md).

  This object becomes immutable after first use. This means that
  calling set() or merge_from() will cause an error if this object has
  already been used in any function arguments. However, assignment creates a
  mutable copy.

methods:
- name: set
  returns: void
  description: Sets a variable to a given value

  posargs:
    varname:
      type: str
      description: The name of the variable to set
    value:
      type: str | int | bool
      description: The value to set

  kwargs:
    description:
      type: str
      description: |
        Message / Comment that will be written in the
        result file. The replacement assumes a file with C syntax. If your
        generated file is source code in some other language, you probably
        don't want to add a description field because it most likely will
        cause a syntax error.

- name: set10
  returns: void
  description: |
    Is the same as [[cfg_data.set]] but the value
    is either `true` or `false` and will be written as 1 or 0,
    respectively

  posargs:
    varname:
      type: str
      description: The name of the variable to set
    value:
      type: bool | int
      description: |
        The value to set as either `1` or `0`

        Passing numbers was never intended to work, and since 0.62 it has been
        deprecated. It will be removed in a future version of Meson. If you
        need to pass numbers use the `.set` method.
  warnings:
  - numeric values < 0 have the surprising behavior of being converted to
    `true`, values > 1 have the more expected but unintentional behavior of
    being interpreted as `true`.

  kwargs_inherit: cfg_data.set

- name: set_quoted
  returns: void
  description: Is same as [[cfg_data.set]] but quotes the value in double quotes (`"`)

  posargs:
    varname:
      type: str
      description: The name of the variable to set
    value:
      type: str | int | bool
      description: The value to set

  kwargs_inherit: cfg_data.set

- name: get
  returns: str | int | bool
  since: 0.38.0
  description: |
    Returns the value of `varname`, if the
    value has not been set returns `default_value` if it is defined
    *(since 0.38.0)* and errors out if not

  posargs:
    varname:
      type: str
      description: The name of the variable to query

  optargs:
    default_value:
      type: str | int | bool
      description: The default value to return when `varname` does not exist

- name: get_unquoted
  returns: str | int | bool
  since: 0.44.0
  description: |
    Returns the value
    of `varname` but without surrounding double quotes (`"`). If the value has
    not been set returns `default_value` if it is defined and errors out if not.

  posargs:
    varname:
      type: str
      description: The name of the variable to query

  optargs:
    default_value:
      type: str | int | bool
      description: The default value to return when `varname` does not exist

- name: has
  returns: bool
  description: returns `true` if the specified variable is set
  posargs:
    varname:
      type: str
      description: The name of the variable to query

- name: keys
  returns: list[str]
  since: 0.57.0
  description: |
    Returns an array of keys of
    the configuration data object.

    You can iterate over this array with the [`foreach`
    statement](Syntax.md#foreach-statements).

- name: merge_from
  returns: void
  since: 0.42.0
  description: |
    Takes as argument a different
    configuration data object and copies all entries from that object to
    the current.

  posargs:
    other:
      type: cfg_data
      description: The other [[@cfg_data]] object to merge into this one.