Contributing a new feature !

Introduction

This week we had lab 04 in our open source course the main goal was to implement a new feature to a new classmate's Repo which we never used before. As the primary objective is about adding a feature to their too to read TOML configuration files and make use of that to pass values.

Contributing for Tailor4Job

This tool was developed by Inderpreet Singh Parmar, this is written on python the main goal of this tool is to give some seekers advice and recommendations based on their resume,cover letter and job description. Primary it is running on Gorq AI.

How did i implement this issue.

As TOML was a new idea for me i have used many resources online to learn about what is a TOML and how is that used in programs. Tailor4Job had its CLI arguments written on main.py, so all of my contribution is only on that file.

Change 1
Installing TOML requirements via pip install TOML and importing it into the program import toml
Change 2

As seen in the image, the first change was write a small function that will load in the toml config file from the root directory to the tool. This is a straightforward operation in which we use the function toml.load to load the .toml file to the tool. Finally it has stderr and it will echo out error code if file is unable to load.

Change 3

From this image, you can see that i am calling our previous function to load in the configuration file. The last step in this implementation was to tell the tool, to check the config file first if something is mentioned, use that or else use default values.

Pull Request

My Pull Request
I have send my PR to him and asked him to check via Slack as of now he hasn't responded yet if he does i will update this post

Conclusion

This lab was really interested helped me learn about the features and uses of TOML file, this lab also made me realise, how working with anther people can be challenging as in Open Source, the owner won't be available at all the time sto fix or review your PR. But overall this is a great experience and exposure to Open Source Development.

AJO GEORGE 04-10-2024