Playing with oslo config to parse a swift conf file

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diff --git a/swift/config.py b/swift/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c7526d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swift/config.py
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+import json
+from oslo.config import cfg
+
+
+FILE_OPTIONS = {
+    None: [
+        cfg.StrOpt('anc1', secret=False, default='dflt',
+                   help='blah')],
+    'proxy': [cfg.StrOpt('anc2', default='dflt2')]
+}
+
+
+def setup_config():
+    conf = cfg.CONF
+
+    for section in FILE_OPTIONS:
+        for option in FILE_OPTIONS[section]:
+            if section:
+                conf.register_opt(option, group=section)
+            else:
+                conf.register_opt(option)
+
+    config_files = ['/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf']
+
+    conf(args=[],
+         project='swift',
+         version='0.0.TODO',
+         default_config_files=config_files)
+
+    print 'ANC %s' % conf.anc1
+    print 'ANC %s' % conf.proxy.anc2
+
+
+def dump_config():
+    conf = cfg.CONF
+    out = {}
+    for key in conf.keys():
+        out[key] = {}
+        try:
+            section = conf.get(key)
+            for item in section.keys():
+                out[key][item] = section.get(item)
+        except AttributeError:
+            out[key] = str(conf.get(key)) + ' EXC'
+    return out