Read config from database or FIFO

Feature
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Hi there,

I would like to propose a feature for rclone to read config from a database instead of flat file or environment variables.

My use case is that I run rclone as rcd, and add/remove remotes through rc, and operations can be done in parallel, so two or more clients can update the config at the same time.

While I can put the operations in a rclone's job queue (or my own), I think it's be easier if rclone can read and/or write config directly from database and let the database handles the concurrency.

postgresql is a popular one, so we can start with that. Or even smaller one like redis.

This will allow more flexibility.

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My preference here would for rclone to invoke an external binary for reading and writing the config.

The config options are something like this

  • list sections
  • list keys within a section
  • add key to section
  • remove key from section
  • remove section

The first thing to do would be to abstract this in the rclone source into a go interface.

It might also be possible to implement this in a plugin.

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That's a good idea. Somebody can alway provide a binary to talk to DB if needed to.

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