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• getType(dict, name) returns the type of the value referred to by the flattened name, throwing an error if dict does not have any such value.
• getValue(dict, name) returns the value referred to by the flattened name, throwing an error if dict does not have any such value.
• updateValue(dict, name, value) stores a new value into the typed JSON dict referred to by name.  value is always a string.  Numeric values are converted, and array values are space-separated.  0 is returned on success, and non-zero values indicate an error.

The configdb Class

Configuration management with MongoDB is handled by the configdb class.