Questions tagged [configuration]
Configuration is an arrangement of functional units according to their nature, number, and chief characteristics.
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How can I keep a web application easy to self host while still breaking it up in to multiple smaller components
I am working on an open source web application that I will be hosting on my own server and I estimate most users will use that but I also want to easily allow users to run the application themself. ...
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Looking for best practices of storing configurations that will be read/write frequently
I'm writing a couple small python scripts to do tasks and act as 'bots' in some applications that will all read/write things for configuration and some very low-level logging of information; Whats the ...
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Auto-Initializable Objects Pattern
I'm working on a system where we consistently apply "patterns" or approaches such as Dependency Injection.
I'd rather not expose the current underlying technology as not to get biased solutions, ...
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Should a class be responsible for its own configuration
In my workplace I am seeing an issue which I feel is wrong, but I am open to the idea that maybe the way I do it is wrong.
A minor example would be a class accepting configuration
//pull config from ...
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Environment configuration vs domain detection
We are developing an angular 5 application that must run in different environments (dev, qa, int, uat, prod), and connect to different APIs depending on the environment. We have traditionally have ...
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Where to store application configuration
Until now for each of our applications we store application configuration in the same repository as the code that uses the configuration. We have environment specific yml files (dev, test, .., prod) ...
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Where to store config settings in a text file and when in a database?
I have several web applications. All of them have config files. I'm trying to figure out when it's appropriate to store data in a config file and when in database in json or free format? For instance, ...
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Make Docker-based SPA configurable
I have a single page app (Vue JS) that is built and released as docker image. The docker image is based on the official Nginx Docker image and serves the SPA as static content.
Until now, there was ...
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When should you use config transforms rather than compiler directives?
I'm currently working on an application which uses compiler directives to vary settings between environments. Would it be worth refactoring these to use settings in the web.config which will be ...
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CORS handling in application or infrastructure?
What are the cons and the pro for handling CORS in infrastructure or application ?
I mean is it better to setup CORS on my nginx/apache/tomcat ?
or to handle it by coding in my application ?
I have ...
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What to name my config classes
What name should I give classes which are just for configuration? For example, when using JAX-RS, every application is required to have an Application class which extends the superclass javax.ws.rs....
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What are “orthogonal” environment variables? [12-factor app]
I was reading the 12-factor app while thinking about the design of a personal project. I like a lot of what I read, but the following paragraph confused me:
In a twelve-factor app, env vars are ...
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How to read configuration text files in Java [closed]
I have made a textual minesweeper game (here you can find the program).
I want to initialize some data by the help of a file. The file should be readable for humans and easy to modify with a simple ...
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Dealing with settings that will change on a per-environment basis?
We have a bunch of appSettings in our ASP.NET web application, not to mention connection strings, that change on a per-environment basis. Not just for different environments to which the web ...
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Binary data formats, how to make ensure you can read different format versions?
On our project we have this data format that we use to process and record data on. As of late our application changed so that many of the data formats parameters have become obsolete. Currently we ...
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Variable/config/secrets management options
I'm currently transitioning my app from Heroku to a more custom environment (to scale beyond what Heroku can offer) and I'm looking for a solution for configuration and environment variables. Here is ...
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How to manage development credentials vs generic (example) ones?
I am an amateur developper and would like to share some of my code via GitHub or GitLabs.
The problem I am trying to resolve is that I have a configuration file with my real credentials (used during ...
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How to manage configuration and state in a program
At my company we have multiple C# programs that use Dictionaries in a config class to keep track of the configuration and state of the program.
For example,
bool isFoo = config.GetBool("Foo");
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Should I place #define in separate file?
I thinked at two techniques for my #define :
Technique 1
SomeClass.h:
#define SOME_BUFFER_LENGTH 256
class SomeClass {
/* ... */
};
Technique 2
Config.h:
#define SOME_BUFFER_LENGTH 256
#...
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Storing settings in a table in my SQLite database or separately?
I'm building an application which uses SQLite, and now want to add settings that are stored between sessions
I'm considering if I'm going to store the settings in a config file or if I'm going to use ...
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Best practices for storing c++ program parameters
I'm currently developing a project which has multiple c++ programs communicating over IPC to each other. Each of these programs will rely on some parameters to run and these may be common to several ...
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Is it crazy to move deployment logic into test suite …?
We're using (and loving) the jest test framework. Most of our tests are nice compartmentalized good-code-hygiene style unit tests.
However we've also written some service level tests (setting up ...
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For Qt, or C++, do modern standards or practices exist for designing Run Configuration files for your programs? [closed]
Backstory
I am building a daemon that is to be run in the background on systems based on X11. As of right now, the settings are hardcoded, and that obviously needs to change. As such, I plan to ...
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How bad of an idea is it to use Python files as configuration files?
I've always used JSON files for configuration of my applications. I started using them from when I coded a lot of Java, and now I'm working mainly on server-side and data science Python development ...
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Should I place my app configurations in a JSON file or in a JS module?
I am building a JavaScript application where its behavior (some rules and logic) is configurable via JSON.
The configurations are deploy only with a new version of the app.
Currently my app, when ...
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How to use functions based on configuration?
let's say that I am working with an IoT device.
The device can have many sensors, each of them has an address, i/o direction and a reading method.
temperature=d2,input,digital
humidity=d3,input,...
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Strategies to manage unruly system environments
In our IT dept we develop multiple systems in parallel, the systems are deployed to different environments, and they talk to each other using SOAP and REST. It's all ASP.NET but we're not in the cloud....
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Custom language with mixed markup and Python, parsing in Python
I need a system for creating Python subclasses in a simple manner, and I was thinking of using a (custom) config language similar to json, xml, etc.
Here's the initial structure I thought of (one ...
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Who should read an external resource
I am often in the following situation:
I have a config file, specifying the path to a resource file
This config file gets parsed and the values (e.g., file path) are stored in a ConfigStore object
A ...
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Best practices for configuration files in global (or globally required) variables
A common pattern I use on my nontrivial programs is to have a class that parses out a config file (usually YAML), and makes the items in the values in the config available as properties on the class.
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Should I configure my URLs with a leading and/or trailing slash?
Maybe too basic of a question but wanted to see if there is more to it than I am thinking.
When configuring URLs (baseUrls, like https://my.app or relative URLs like /path/to/resource) either as a ...
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Creating a singleton to access static data
I have some properties in a property file that I referenced in a singleton so that I can access them easily from different parts of my application. For each property, I put the properties along with ...
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How to properly handle global parameters for unit testing in python?
We are implementing many algorithms which typically have lots of shared, publicly known and security-relevant parameters.
Currently, we simply use a class holding all the parameters and two ...
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Is it fine to trap users in a dialog until they enter valid values into components? [closed]
Assume I have a modal dialog where I allow the user to change values of an encapsulated configuration through different UI components and I want to save the effort to implement a validation per ...
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Effectively tracking changes to configuration from dev to prod
This question takes a Spring Boot service as an example, but it could be any technology.
Assuming the following:
Environments (dev/QA/prod) are owned by different teams. This means dev must not have ...
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Deciding what values should be configurable
My application is a Java program that controls a robot (which is essentially a raspberry pi hooked up to a lot of devices). There are many devices on the robot that have semi constant address values ...
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Best practices for handling large number of structured configuration/property files
Imagine a system that has a large number of servers. Each of them has a number of settings:
Some specific to the server
Some specific to the region
Some common across all of them
Maybe you can have ...
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Configuring entity behavior DDD
In one of the products I work with we have an aggregation root with a lot of domain logic, and now I have a requirement to make one small piece of behavior configurable.
To give an example, let's say ...
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How to write System requirements - not all architectures fulfill all requirements
We have a system that is largely configurable, that can be organized in different architectures, and I'm struggling to write its requirement specification. I'll give an example
Module 1 does A
Module ...
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Configuration object vs function
I'm designing a configurable api and I've seen a few ways to accept options from the caller.
One is using an options object like so:
var options = new MyApiConfigurationOptions {
Option1 = true,...
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Does C# project with configuration file only seem to be an architecture flaw?
I have multiple related projects in one Visual Studio C# solution, which in general have similar architecture of WCF business logic services and ASP.NET clients.
In order to host these services, I ...
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Is it a good programming practice to store java properties keys in ENUM for validation once application starts?
Sample Java properties file which is read by the properties class
appl.component1.property1=value1
appl.component1.property1=value2
Custom class which extends the java.util.Properties class adding ...
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Should I use Lua for writing config files?
I heard that Lua is great for configuration files, so long as you are secure about it. Lua has been used as config files by programs such as awesome and (recently) conky.
However, I also heard that ...
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What Semantic Version increment to use for a configuration file alteration?
Using Semantic Versioning, I have a product that is version 1.0.0. It has a configuration file entry shipped with the product that specifies an operation timeout value:
myTimeout=1000
I need to ...
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What are data format providing structural information? [closed]
I have a built a toy server framework that provides very extensive configuration options. In configuration, one can for example define instances of modules with each providing generic options, such as ...
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Typical Practice for external application config
I have a C# cmdlet(1) that uses "ConfigurationManager.AppSettings" to get database connection strings necessary for some stored procedures used in the cmdlet(1). If another application instantiates an ...
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DI/IoC container vs factories: Where do I configure my application and why?
I am trying to figure out when to use the DIC/IoC registry for configuring my software and when to use factories, along with the reasoning behind either approach.
I am using StructureMap as my DI ...
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Best Practice for supporting multiple login configs across Environments
This question has more to do with the structure and access of different configurations across a number of levels of development. What I mean by 'levels of development' is environments where the ...
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ASP.net using Resource (resx) for Configuration
Let me start with the fact that I'm prepared for this question to be closed as opinion based, but I am going to attempt to phrase it in such a way to keep it less based on opinions.
The Short Version
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Why store app configuration in a data file instead of code esp. when using Continuous Integration?
Consider the following CI procedure is in place:
Builds are only deployed (semi-)automatically.
All changes are version-controlled.
Configuration is fixed per environment.
Why use data files (*....
