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C# IConfiguration not loading appsettings

Anyone knows why my appsettings isnt found? It exists in the same project in my solution as i run? Its a simple console application with my appsettings.json in it but its not found?

var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
              .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", true, true)
              //.AddUserSecrets<Program>()
              .AddEnvironmentVariables();
            _config = builder.Build();

var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
              .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", true, true)
              //.AddUserSecrets<Program>()
              .AddEnvironmentVariables();
            _config = builder.Build();

But when i user User Secrets it works fine.

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Renn•12mo ago

how are you trying to use it? and what do you mean by "it's not found"?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Alrighty, here it comes:

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Yeah okay

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

What is already part of the builder?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
    <UserSecretsId>my user secrets id</UserSecretsId>
    <DockerDefaultTargetOS>Linux</DockerDefaultTargetOS>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Discord.Addons.Hosting" Version="5.1.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Discord.Net" Version="3.7.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables" Version="6.0.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets" Version="6.0.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection" Version="6.0.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Containers.Tools.Targets" Version="1.17.2" />
    <PackageReference Include="TenorSharp" Version="1.6.1" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\SadBot.Core\SadBot.Core.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\SadBot.Logging\SadBot.Logging.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
    <UserSecretsId>my user secrets id</UserSecretsId>
    <DockerDefaultTargetOS>Linux</DockerDefaultTargetOS>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Discord.Addons.Hosting" Version="5.1.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Discord.Net" Version="3.7.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables" Version="6.0.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets" Version="6.0.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection" Version="6.0.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Containers.Tools.Targets" Version="1.17.2" />
    <PackageReference Include="TenorSharp" Version="1.6.1" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\SadBot.Core\SadBot.Core.csproj" />
    <ProjectReference Include="..\SadBot.Logging\SadBot.Logging.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

I dont think im missing anything like when i enable to load from usersecrets it works Both when building to linux and docker + building in windows and running in Visual studio terminal without docker it fails at samee thing cannot load the configuration file

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

So the placement in my csproj or the worker valuie is wrong?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Does worker exist for 6.0 or do i have to bump the .net version for my project?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

And what is this worker thing? I didnt quite get the point why i should swap to it

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Beecause its built into the worker thing?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

oh okay ill try but do you think it might solve the configuration issue?

Renn•12mo ago

how are you consuming your configuration in services? I see you're using services.Configure<>() are you using IOptions<DiscordKeyOptions> in your consumer classes?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

For example like this:

 public WorkerService(DiscordSocketClient client, CommandService commands, TenorClient tenorClient,
            ILogger<DiscordClientService> logger, IOptions<DiscordKeyOptions> options)

 public WorkerService(DiscordSocketClient client, CommandService commands, TenorClient tenorClient,
            ILogger<DiscordClientService> logger, IOptions<DiscordKeyOptions> options)

then i can access like this to provide values when needed in thjat service:

_options.GuildId;

_options.GuildId;

Renn•12mo ago

yeah OK that looks right. And options is null is what the problem is?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Yes its null because loading the appsettings.json isnt working

Renn•12mo ago

pretty sure IOptions<T> can come up null if you have no configuration for that class. I mean, the actual variable won't be null, but .Value will be null

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MODiX•12mo ago

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Yes its open source

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Maybe i should make it private repo prefer not to share

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

i know it would make this a lot easier yeah ik

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

But i dont want ppl to be able to contribute i think

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

I know but like

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Yes But then its diff you see what i want you to see of my code But i mean any console app that tries to load the configuration should fail Dunno if i need to set path or soemthing for that file?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

And i guess its not suuuper relevant since thats only for development

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Yeye imn looking into migrating my project rn

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Yeah its on the same folder level as my console app

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

i did download sdk 8.0 which got all runtime and other stuff dotnet --list-sdks gives me 8.0.100 and a path to C:/Program Files/dotnet/sdk and i set net8.0 as my TargetFramework in my csproj files.

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

after that the rebuild worked, nice But now when running i get the bug again

TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

That is beecause as ive understood it the IOptions gets a null value into CTOR due to the underlying issue which is what im trying to solve ===> Loading appsettings or somehow .env variables That isnt user secrets

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

Like create a seperate class/service => register it as a hosted service, and have that keep all values etc? Instead of using directly the IConfiguration like i did there?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

okay but isnt my issue that this:

var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
  .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", true, true)
  //.AddUserSecrets<Program>()
  .AddEnvironmentVariables();
_config = builder.Build();

var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
  .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", true, true)
  //.AddUserSecrets<Program>()
  .AddEnvironmentVariables();
_config = builder.Build();

Doesnt load env values? or do need to access them another way?

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

?? what do you mean

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

var host = Host.CreateDefaultBuilder()
.ConfigureDiscordHost((context, config) =>

var host = Host.CreateDefaultBuilder()
.ConfigureDiscordHost((context, config) =>

??? Because: CS0117 'Host' does not contain a definition for 'CreateApplicationBuilder'

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

No i just migrated my existing app to 8.0

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

wait ong i realized

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TiltyboiOP•12mo ago

u said earlier to swap in csproj i did that and now it boots! Host still doesnt allow anything but DefaultBuilder, but it boots now anyway.. I will consider refactoring the service instead of using IConfiguration values.. Thanks ThumbsUp

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