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Configuration System
====================
<sub>This document describes the implementation and inner working of the
configuration system in Clusterio, and unless you're developing
Clusterio it's probably not going to be very useful for you.</sub>
Clusterio uses a group based configuration system to manage settings for
the master server, instances, slaves, and the clusterioctl utility.
Plugins get their own config group for the master server and instances
which they can add their own fields to. The fields are defined early in
the startup, and the groups and their fields for disabled plugins will
still be created.
The built-in config groups and their fields are defined in
[packages/lib/config/definitions.js](/packages/lib/config/definitions.js)
while plugins can add their own config groups to the `MasterConfigGroup`
and `InstanceConfigGroup` properties of the `info.js` export using
subclasses of `PluginConfigGroup`. The plugin group has the enabled
field pre-defined on it, and it's used to enable/disable plugins.
Defing Fields
-------------
Fields are defined using the `define` class method on group classes
after the groupName have been set and before the class has been
finalized. The `define` method takes an object as argument with the
following properties:
**type**:
The type of config value this field will support. The supported
values are boolean, string, number, and object, and if an attept is
made to set the field to a value that is not of the right type it
will be reject unless it's a string that can be converted to the
right type.
**name**:
Name of the configuration field, this is the primary way the field
is accessed, both in code and on the command line. As such it
should follow the lower\_case\_underscore style and not contain any
spaces or dots.
**title** (optional):
Text used to identify the config field in user interfaces.
**description** (optional):
Text used to describe the config field in user interfaces.
**enum** (optional):
Array of acceptable values this field can have. Attempts to set a
value not in this array will be rejected, which makes it useful for
making enumareted list of choices.
**optional** (optional):
True if this field can be set to null. Defaults to false.
**initial_value** (optional if optional is true):
Value this config field should take in a newly initialized config.
This can also be an async function returning the value to use.
If the value for a field stored in on disk somehow ends up being invalid
the field will take on the initial\_value instead when the config is
loaded.
Accessing Fields
----------------
On the Config instance there's two ways to access fields: through the
set and get methods using dot notation. E.g.:
let value = configInstance.get("group.field");
Or by getting the group first and then calling set or get on that.
E.g.:
let value = configInstance.group("group").get("field")
The set method takes an extra argument, which is the value to set the
field to. If the value is not valid this will throw an InvalidValue
exception, if the group or field doesn't exist it will throw an
InvalidField exception.
Config Lifecycle
----------------
Values for all config fields are created when the config is initialized,
as well as for any fields with missing values when a config is loaded.
Once a field has a value it is never automatically removed, even if the
field or group it was part of no longer exists. This ensures that
plugin configuration is not lost should the server be started up without
the plugins that defined the configuration installed.
For instance configs, they are kept on the master server and serialized
and sent over to the relevant slaves on startup. This makes it possible
to edit instance configs when the slave the instance is on is offline.
A copy is also stored in the instance directory on the slave, and this
config will be deliverd to the master server on slave startup, which
enables instances to be copied between clusters as long as their IDs are
unique.