--settings settings.json option

[simonw]

https://discord.com/channels/823971286308356157/823971286941302908/1120705940728066080

May I add a request to the whole metadata / settings ? Allow to pass --settings path/to/settings.json instead of having to rely exclusively on directory mode to centralize settings (this would reflect the behavior of providing metadata)

[asg017]

I just saw in the docs that Dasette auto-detects settings.json:

settings.json - settings that would normally be passed using --setting - here they should be stored as a JSON object of key/value pairs
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[adarshp]

@asg017 - the docs say that the autodetection only occurs in configuration directory mode. I for one would also be interested in the --settings settings.json feature.

For context, I am developing a large database for use with Datasette, but the database lives in a different network volume than my source code, since the volume in which my source code lives is aggressively backed up, while the location where the database lives is meant for temporary files and is not as aggressively backed up (since the backups would get unreasonably large).