facil and teams with more than one developer

[costa100]

Hello,

What is the recommended way to configure facil when more than one developer works on a project, and developers use individual development databases?

Thanks

[costa100]

I ended up placing the connection strings in the appsettings.development.json file. This file is not committed in git. One of the other things we need to do when we get a new version updated by another developer, is to apply his database updates.

Any other thoughts or advice, perhaps there is a better way?

Also, please improve this paragraph:

Facil/facil_reference.yaml

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# 'envVars' allow you to use configuration values from environment varibles. Supply the

I do not understand the behaviour, what it means exactly that the prefix will be removed from the environment variable. Why does it need to be removed? An example would help a lot.

Thanks!

[cmeeren]

I believe user secrets are the standard way to solve this.

appsettings.development.json should, as I understand it, be committed and thus not contain developer-specific stuff.

You can read more about configuration here. This includes prefixed environment variables. Note that the prefix can be empty.

[cmeeren]

In the reference YAML file, in the description for the configs property, I link to two official articles that explain all the configuration sources. So I believe this is explained well enough. Let me know if you still disagree.

Facil/facil_reference.yaml

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	# The optional 'configs' section allows you to specify where variables are resolved from.
	# Each array item translates more or less exactly into a call to the corresponding
	# Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.Add* method, in the order you
	# specify here (i.e., later config sources will override already added config sources if
	# there are collisions). Any config type may be added multiple times. This section is only
	# required if you are using variables (e.g. for the connection string). For more
	# information, see:
	# - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/configuration
	# - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.extensions.configuration.configurationbuilder
	configs:
	# 'appSettings' allow you to use configuration values from appsettings.json.
	- appSettings: path/from/project/to/appsettings.json
	# 'userSecrets' allow you to use configuration values from user secrets.
	- userSecrets: 80d5e7ec-f577-4360-b60a-f10ea004da1d
	# 'envVars' allow you to use configuration values from environment varibles. Supply the
	# prefix that environment variable names must start with. The prefix will be removed
	# from the environment variable names.
	- envVars: ""

[costa100]

It's all good - like you said, it's in the MS documentation. Thank you!