Resource File

You may want users of your application to be able to set their own global default values for attributes, overwriting defaults you define in your application’s base configuration. Yclept supports reading a secondary resource file (e.g., ~/.your_app_name.rc) in which users can specify attributes that replace or add to the list of attributes in your application’s base configuration.

For example, continuing with the base configuration defined above, suppose a user of your application has the file ~/.your_app_name.rc with these contents:

attributes:
  - name: attribute_2
    type: list
    text: Directive 2 is interpretable as an ordered list of attributes
    attributes:
      - name: attribute_2a
        type: dict
        text: Directive 2a is one possible attribute in a user's list
        attributes:
          - name: d2a_val2
            type: int
            text: An int for Value 2 of Directive 2a
            default: 7 # user has changed this in their resource file

The presence of this file indicates the user would like the default value of attribute d2a_val2 under attribute attribute_2a of base attribute attribute_2 to be 7 instead of 6.