editable config file?

[haug1]

I want to start using confy in my project, but I can't figure out how to include a manually editable configuration file?
From my understanding of the practical example in the readme, it is loading a .toml file named "app-name" out as the values. I try to include a app-name.toml in the root of my project, but it does not work.
Is it possible to do this?

Here's the output I'm getting:
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'Config read error: BadTomlData(Error { inner: ErrorInner { kind: Custom, line: Some(0), col: 0, at: Some(0), message: "missing field secret_key", key: [] } })', src/utils/config.rs:25:36

From this code:

#[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
pub struct Config {
  pub secret_key: String,
  pub test_attr: u8,
}

impl ::std::default::Default for Config {
  fn default() -> Self {
    Self {
      test_attr: 0,
      secret_key: "secret".into(),
    }
  }
}

pub fn load_config() -> Config {
  confy::load("app-name").expect("Config read error")
}

In my project root folder app-name.toml alongside cargo.toml:

secret_key = "something"
test_attr = 123

Is this a feature request? I dont know.

[haug1]

My bad, I wasn't specifying the full path for the file.

fn config_filename() -> &'static str {
  "my-config"
}

fn config_filepath() -> String {
  let path = std::env::current_dir().expect("config_filepath() : Current dir error");
  format!("{}/{}", path.display(), config_filename())
}

pub fn load_config() -> Config {
  confy::load(&config_filepath()).expect("Config read error")
}

[Zykino]

confy uses directory (and that should be upgraded).
But depending on your system, it should be on the common path for configuration files. See https://crates.io/crates/directories/2.0.0 for specific infos (look for config_dir).

By the way do you think it would have been clearer if a function like the one proposed in #36 was available ?
pub fn get_configuration_file_path(name: &str) -> Result<PathBuf, ConfyError>

I will try to merge that and create a new version for the crate fo the end of the year

[haug1]

@Zykino See my implementation. I would like it to just do that behind the scenes from the load function. If not, expose a new load that does it. I don't want to be calling a lot of small functions from the library by hand. I simply want a library does it. And it seems great so far although I'm not far into using it 👍

[haug1]

PS.: I'm very new to Rust and just starting out. Just trying to give my impression

[Zykino]

Which version are you using ? In 0.4 (and hopefully later) load and store should store in the standards project directories. To store at any other path use load_path and store_path instead.

So on Linux, load should create the file in ~/.config/my-config/my-config.toml

I cannot say I have a lot of experience in Rust yet either 😄.

[haug1]

Ah, that makes a lot of sense then. I didn't even think to look in ~/.config/my-config/my-config.toml, but I must admit that is very intuitive and probably good practice. You can disregard my earlier advice then, this is probably better, just a misunderstanding on my part. Thanks for taking the time to answer anyways