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2.2. Using config files feedback

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

Locate the book page containing the cited configuration TODO and read its surrounding guidance. Review the linked config, clap, and configure resources, then update the page to reflect the current findings and verify that the TODO is resolved.

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Description

Going through the TODO on the page:

Evaluate crates that exist

https://docs.rs/config/latest/config/ seems to be the most popular crate.

Cli-args + multiple configs + env variables

clap has an env method/feature that allows setting an environment variable to read from if the CLI argument isn't present

To throw in configuration files, there's an open issue: https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/issues/748 There are also various (less popular) crates that integrate with clap by third-party authors.

Can configure do all this? Is there a nice wrapper around it?

configure hasn't had a release in 5 years. I don't think it's relevant anymore.

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