This article will demonstrate how to use a configuration file reader class that easily works with the XML configuration files prevalent today.
The reader class works with various types of assemblies console applications, web applications, services, … and provides a consistent approach to processing configuration files.
The provided class solution and console test harness were constructed using Visual Studio A VS version of the solution could be created using the. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How do you deal with configuration files in source control? Ask Question. Asked 13 years, 5 months ago. Active 2 months ago. Viewed 18k times.
Improve this question. Ryan Fox 9, 5 5 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. And if username is not reliable for whatever reason, then you can have a single file with only one line giving the name of the override config file. This way, there is very little as in about 10 characters or so which are not version controlled. I always think that configurations should be kept separate from code.
I've worked at places which require so many configurations for one repo that Git just gets overwhelmed with config files. Not saying that configs shouldn't be versioned, they belong elsewhere like an artifact manager. Config is not code, they're settings for code. Configuration files may contain sensitive information like passwords that should not be versioned.
Or do you want to grant every developer access to your production environment? I think it is better to just version a "master config" and override it in specific environments. Don't version that file. Version a template or something. Grant Grant I use this approach, I just have a main. I add the main. Brandon Wood Brandon Wood 5, 4 4 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Currently I have the "template" config file with an added extension for example: web. GateKiller GateKiller Damien Diederen Damien Diederen 2, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.
But when the developers testers push into the mainline, their changes to the template file will be pushed in as well. Unless there's a solution to Nick's comment, this will not work from what I see. Or maybe explain what flow model you're using which would solve the issue. I agree with the template approach with any necessary adjustments baked in at build time. However on the branching topic What if there were multiple templates dev, test, etc.
Not foolproof but could work with cooperation. Hope this helps. Jason Stevenson Jason Stevenson 3, 3 3 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges. This works extremely well if there are only a few difference between the environment ie connection strings — Eric Labashosky. For example web.
JackAce JackAce 1, 14 14 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Andy Whitfield Andy Whitfield 2, 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Grant is right. It's worked out pretty well for us.
Tom Tom Greg Hurlman Greg Hurlman Sean Carpenter Sean Carpenter 7, 3 3 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. It may not be pretty, but it works just fine. EndangeredMassa EndangeredMassa Rob Oxspring Rob Oxspring 2, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges.
We have two problems here. Firstly we have to control the configuration file that is shipped with the software. Firstly reduce the number of configuration items you have in your main configuration file. Likewise for depency injection setup. Let us learn how to implement the configurations from the property file. Additionally, name it as configs. Moreover, we will keep config files with in the same folder. Additionally, name it as configuration. Here, the.
If we look at our TestContext. In the configuration. In addition to that, name it as dataProvider. Moreover, all the data-readers files will be kept here in this package. After that, name it as ConfigFileReader. If you have noticed the class ConfigReader. Additionally, there is only one Singleton instance. Therefore, any instance fields of a Singleton would occur only once per class, similar to static fields.
Singleton pattern ensures the creation of only one instance of a class in the JVM. Moreover, it enables a global point of access to the object.
In our case, we have ConfigReader.
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