❔ Check if appsettings.json or appsettings.Development.json
I need to write settings back to my configuration json during the operation of the current application. To achieve this, I open the appsettings.json file and write the newly serialised values. This works perfectly in production, but causes issues in development.
How can I tell which json file the current application is using at the topmost level? I know it is appsettings.Development.json when running in a development context, but I have not found a way to determine this whilst the application is running.
Thanks
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appsettinngs, and the entire config stack aren't really meant for mutable settings
Especially since it's meant to be layered
Indeed, which is why I have an entire config layer in the application to handle that immutability
When the application starts up, it uses the Microsoft stuff to load the configuration in, and then brings that into an object in memory. When settings are saved, they are immediately applied live because the object is updated live and is referenced by everything. For the persistence, it is written back to the file for the next time the application starts up
Right now to work around my issue, I have done a dirty hack where I specify the filename of the config... in the config
works fine but not ideal
Some sources are meant to refresh, like azure app configuration
Yeah, but the app isn't meant to be the one modifying it, is what I meant
iirc there is some facility for read-write; but honestly even if there is; don't use it.
there are better options than abusing the hell out of configuration settings
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