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arcticicestudio / snowsaw

A lightweight, plugin-driven and dynamic dotfiles bootstrapper.
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Single configuration file extensions #67

Closed arcticicestudio closed 5 years ago

arcticicestudio commented 5 years ago

Epic: #33

The application configuration file loader currently supports multiple file types with multiple file extensions, e.g. yml and yaml for YAML encoded data. This can lead to priority problems when merging multiple loaded configuration states when there are multiple YAML files with different supported file extension in the same directory. There are no rules how to decide which extension takes precedence over another extension causing unexpected merged configurations.

To prevent such problems each file type will only support a single official file extension. The currently supported encodings are JSON and YAML where the following file extension will only be supported:

  1. JSON
    • before: *.json
    • after: *.json
  2. YAML
    • before: *.yml, *.yaml
    • after: *.yml

Note that this won't affect the precedences of different file types! YAML files will still take precedence over JSON files since YAML is a superset of JSON and JSON is also valid YAML.

arcticicestudio commented 5 years ago

Resolved in 008edbcb509af2cb5ced942d679fa3845a4ec1e1