Environment Custom Configuration?

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I have an application that needs to have some custom configuration… I looked through the docs and couldn’t find any examples of custom configuration. I just want to set some additional configuration options and then have the behavior of a handler change based on those values.

So, my questions, specifically, are:

  1. how do I add custom configuration options on a per-environment basis?
  2. how do I reference these custom configuration values inside a handler or view?

Thanks,
Ben

2

Hi Ben,

I followed this blog post by John Whish to get my environment settings configured:

http://www.aliaspooryorik.com/blog/index.cfm/e/posts.details/post/coldbox-environments-using-machine-name-279

I run 3 configurations

  1. the default ColdBox config settings - Production
  2. staging()
  3. workstation()

the above post describes configuring per-environment settings by machine name.

so if you had two environments outside of production you would set it up like so:

environments = {

workstation = “^localhost$”,
staging = “staging.mysite.com”
}

function workstation(){
settings.coffee = “Americano”;
}

function staging(){
settings.coffee = “Columbian”;
}

Once the settings are configured and executed by the environment interceptor you would just reference them as you would any other setting by getSetting(‘coffee’) and get a different value per-environment.

Make sense?

Nolan

3

perfecto. Thanks!

4

Rather than doing if (getSetting(“Environment”) == “production”) everywhere, I use the methods described by Nolan to override production settings.

Example:

// Production

coldbox =
{

//

// Much Removed
//

settings =
{
sendEmailFrom = “me@me.com”
,allowDebugLogging = false
,allowAPICache = true

// etc…

}
}

public function development()
{
settings.allowAPICache = false;
settings.allowDebugLogging = true;
}

//
// or another way would be…
//
public functiond development()
{
local.devSettings = {
allowAPICache = false
allowDebugLogging = true
}
structAppend(coldbox.settings,local.devSettings,true);
}

5

Looks like Nolan does the same. I just wanted to be clear that you can have some insane clean code in multiple environments without getting to IF’ey.