LoadConfig() from a string

shark · April 21, 2020, 5:57pm

I am trying to use rclone by importing the source directly in a golang project to run copy/delete commands. What I want to know is, if its possible for LoadConfig to accept a string as an argument instead of reading config from a file?

I know I can just fork it and modify the program to accept it as an argument but is there already a way to do this? I want to pass s3 details to rclone to detect remote correctly when I parse and create FS from path.

ncw · April 22, 2020, 3:14pm

What you can do is set environment variables - you can create the whole config like that.

There are config reading and setting hooks you can override here also

github.com

rclone/rclone/blob/d22e6f5a9679dc80be454352908fdb0798efd695/fs/config.go#L16-L28


      
          	// Read a value from the config file
          	//
          	// This is a function pointer to decouple the config
          	// implementation from the fs
          	ConfigFileGet = func(section, key string) (string, bool) { return "", false }
          
          	// Set a value into the config file and persist it
          	//
          	// This is a function pointer to decouple the config
          	// implementation from the fs
          	ConfigFileSet = func(section, key, value string) (err error) {
          		return errors.New("no config file set handler")
          	}

shark · April 23, 2020, 4:21am

Thanks! Yeah I saw that route of exporting all the env vars as well but I though that will be dirty implementation when I already have env vars of my own application. I think ConfigFileSet/Get should be good for my use case, I'll try and report back.

system · April 26, 2020, 4:21am

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