html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2143#issuecomment-1685259985,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2143,1685259985,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5kcwbR,11784304,dvizard,2023-08-20T11:27:21Z,2023-08-20T11:27:21Z,NONE,"To chime in from a poweruser perspective: I'm worried that this is an overengineering trap. Yes, the current solution is somewhat messy. But there are datasette-wide settings, there are database-scope settings, there are table-scope settings etc, but then there are database-scope metadata and table-scope metadata. Trying to cleanly separate ""settings"" from ""configuration"" is, I believe, an uphill fight. Even separating db/table-scope settings from pure descriptive metadata is not always easy. Like, do canned queries belong to database metadata or to settings? Do I need two separate files for this?

One pragmatic solution I used in a project is stacking yaml configuration files. Basically, have an arbitrary number of yaml or json settings files that you load in a specified order. Every file adds to the corresponding settings in the earlier-loaded file (if it already existed). I implemented this myself but found later that there is an existing Python ""cascading dict"" type of thing, I forget what it's called. There is a bit of a challenge deciding whether there is ""replacement"" or ""addition"" (I think I pragmatically ran `update` on the second level of the dict but better solutions are certainly possible). 

This way, one allows separation of settings into different blocks, while not imposing a specific idea of what belongs where that might not apply equally to all cases.
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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2143#issuecomment-1685260244,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2143,1685260244,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5kcwfU,11784304,dvizard,2023-08-20T11:29:00Z,2023-08-20T11:29:00Z,NONE,https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.ChainMap,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1855885427,De-tangling Metadata before Datasette 1.0,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2143#issuecomment-1685260624,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2143,1685260624,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5kcwlQ,11784304,dvizard,2023-08-20T11:31:16Z,2023-08-20T11:31:16Z,NONE,https://pypi.org/project/deep-chainmap/,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1855885427,De-tangling Metadata before Datasette 1.0,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2143#issuecomment-1685263948,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2143,1685263948,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5kcxZM,11784304,dvizard,2023-08-20T11:50:10Z,2023-08-20T11:50:10Z,NONE,"This also makes it simple to separate out secrets.

`datasette --config settings.yaml --config secrets.yaml --config db-docs.yaml --config db-fixtures.yaml`

settings.yaml
```
settings:
  default_page_size: 10
  max_returned_rows: 3000
  sql_time_limit_ms"": 8000
plugins:
  datasette-ripgrep:
    path: /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages
```

secrets.yaml
```
plugins:
  datasette-auth-github:
            client_secret: SUCH_SECRET 
```


db-docs.yaml
```
databases:
  docs:
    permissions:
      create-table:
        id: editor
```

db-fixtures.yaml
```
databases:
  fixtures:
    tables:
      no_primary_key:
        hidden: true
    queries:
      neighborhood_search:
        sql: |-
          select neighborhood, facet_cities.name, state
          from facetable join facet_cities on facetable.city_id = facet_cities.id
          where neighborhood like '%' || :text || '%' order by neighborhood;
        title: Search neighborhoods
        description_html: |-
          <p>This demonstrates <em>basic</em> LIKE search
```","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1855885427,De-tangling Metadata before Datasette 1.0,