dynamic-config-loco

A request-scoped dynamic-config snapshot for Loco: one initializer, one extractor.

[dependencies]
dynamic-config-loco = "0.3.1"

use dynamic_config_loco::{sections, Config, DynamicConfig};
use loco_rs::prelude::*;

impl Hooks for App {
    async fn initializers(_ctx: &AppContext) -> Result<Vec<Box<dyn Initializer>>> {
        Ok(vec![DynamicConfig::boxed(sections![Server, Features])])
    }
}

async fn index(
    Config(server): Config<Server>,
    Config(features): Config<Features>,
) -> Result<Response> {
    format::text(&format!("{} {}", server.port, features.cache))
}

Both sections come from one reading taken when the request began, so a reload landing mid-request cannot show one response two generations.

Loco's own configuration is a different thing

config/development.yaml is where Loco's database URL, worker mode and server port live. None of it reloads, and none of it should — Loco binds its listener and builds its pool from those values once.

This crate is for the other half: the settings an operator changes while the service runs. Keep them in their own file, with their own #[dynamic_config] sections, and leave ctx.config to Loco.

What it is

Loco is axum underneath, so the layer and the extractor are dynamic-config-axum's, re-exported unchanged. What this adds is the Initializer Loco asks a library for.

Writing that yourself is three lines in your own initializer, and is fine.

See the workspace README for the problem all of this solves, and cargo run -p dynamic-config-loco --example loco_two_sections for a runnable demonstration — the initializer driven through after_routes the way Loco's own boot sequence drives it.

MIT licensed.