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A Haskell library supporting flexible, dynamic file-based configuration.
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Export accessor function for a Config's subconfig'd root #17

Open mightybyte opened 10 years ago

mightybyte commented 10 years ago

Sometimes I like to display my own custom error messages when certain config options are missing. In these cases, it is often desirable to tell the user the full "path" of the option that was missing so it is easy to rectify the problem. I currently can't do this because the "root" field accessor is not exported. Configurator's require function also doesn't display the full path. I don't think it's sufficient to just improve the require function because I often find myself wanting fully customized error messages.

charles-cooper commented 6 years ago

I'd like to chime in that this would be super useful. Even improving the error message for require (https://github.com/bos/configurator/blob/ff6d476562e9ff8b757832a81076d57e7a600fcf/Data/Configurator.hs#L244) to include the root of the config would be a big help