Search for configuration in config directories (dotfiles, etc) #749
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Searches for: - ~/Library/Application Support/swift-format/config.json - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/swift-format/config.json - ~/.config/swift-format/config.json
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| - `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/swift-format/config.json` | ||
| - `~/.config/swift-format/config.json` |
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I'd love to see $XDG_CONFIG_HOME / ~/.config first here. What's the thinking behind looking first in ~/Library/Application Support?
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It is the default path for configuration files on MacOS
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Thanks for the PR, @calebhearth. I think adding an ability to have a global .swift-format configuration without putting .swift-format in / will be useful.
A couple comments regarding the search locations:
- I think we should also support
XDG_CONFIG_DIRSfor a system-wide configuration file isntead of just a user-wide configuration file. - We should also offer default search locations on Windows, the Build Server Protocol uses
%LOCALAPPDATA%\bsp\and%PROGRAMDATA%\bsp\and I think we could do the same here. - The search path discovery for BSP servers is implemented in SourceKit-LSP at https://github.com/swiftlang/sourcekit-lsp/blob/4ca25836226a2b28868a42df3a3336fcc481e1c5/Sources/BuildSystemIntegration/ExternalBuildSystemAdapter.swift#L195-L220. I think you should be able to steal a lot of that (especially note that there are methods in Foundation to get the path for the
Application Supportdirectories). Also, I think it makes sense to follow that precedent for ranking the XDG-dirs vsApplication Support.
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@WuerfelDev opened the PR, but I second the thanks! |
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Oh, whoops, sorry. @WuerfelDev thank you for opening the PR 🙏🏽 |
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I will make the changes within the next week. However I am unable to test on windows Thanks for the SourceKit link, I'll get some "inspiration" from there |
That’s fine. Just try and do the best you can think of, leaving FIXMEs for things that you know need covering and I can do the rest. |
Searches for configuration files (
swift-format/config.json) in the config directories (~/Library/Application Support,$XDG_CONFIG_HOME,.config).That enables a "global" (userwide) configuration that is stored eg in the dotfiles.
The configuration file is only used when no other configuration file was found