Rewriting to Haskell–Configuration
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database:
username: stream
database: stream_development
password: ""
application:
aws_s3_access_key: "ABCD1234"
aws_s3_secret_key: "EFGH5678"
aws_s3_region: us-east-1
aws_s3_bucket_name: stream-demo-bucketThat is great for development but how can we run test against the test database? Turns out that the package we use to parse the yaml file allows the use of ENV variables:
database:
username: stream
database: _env:DATABASE:stream_development
password: ""
application:
aws_s3_access_key: "ABCD1234"
aws_s3_secret_key: "EFGH5678"
aws_s3_region: us-east-1
aws_s3_bucket_name: stream-demo-bucketThat is, now we can just run DATABASE=stream_test stack test!
In the repository we actually keep a configuration.yml.example file and git ignore configuration.yml to avoid leaking credentials:
database:
username: stream
database: _env:DATABASE:stream_development
password: ""
application:
aws_s3_access_key: "REPLACE_ME"
aws_s3_secret_key: "REPLACE_ME"
aws_s3_region: us-east-1
aws_s3_bucket_name: ll-stream-demoFor production we use Ansible (with Ansible Vault) to put in place the correct configuration.yml. Plus, we instruct Hapistrano to make that file available for each deployment:
linked_files:
- haskell/configuration.ymlTo read the configuration inside the Servant application we use loadYamlSettings from the yaml package:
loadYamlSettings
:: FromJSON settings
=> [FilePath] -- ^ run time config files to use, earlier files have precedence
-> [Value] -- ^ any other values to use, usually from compile time config. overridden by files
-> EnvUsage
-> IO settingsIn other words, given a type settings that is an instance of FromJSON we can decode yaml files into a value of that type. And this is how we do it for Stream:
data Configuration
= Configuration
{ configurationDatabaseUser :: String,
configurationDatabaseDatabase :: String,
configurationDatabasePassword :: String,
configurationApplicationAwsS3AccessKey :: AccessKey,
configurationApplicationAwsS3SecretKey :: SecretKey,
configurationApplicationAwsS3Region :: Region,
configurationApplicationAwsS3BucketName :: BucketName
}
instance FromJSON Configuration where
parseJSON (Object x) = do
database <- x .: "database"
application <- x .: "application"
Configuration
<$> database .: "username"
<*> database .: "database"
<*> database .: "password"
<*> application .: "aws_s3_access_key"
<*> application .: "aws_s3_secret_key"
<*> application .: "aws_s3_region"
<*> application .: "aws_s3_bucket_name"
loadConfiguration :: IO Configuration
loadConfiguration =
loadYamlSettings ["./configuration.yml"] [] useEnv