J4JSoftware.ConsoleUtilities 2.0.0

J4JSoftware.ConsoleUtilities

Enables run-time editing of configuration parameters in console apps on an as-needed basis.

The change log is available .

This assembly targets Net 7 and has nullability enabled.

The library's repository is available on github.

The Net IConfiguration system is highly flexible and can assemble configuration information from many sources. However, when it's done some values needed by a console app may still be undefined or invalid. ConfigurationUpdater<> allows you to set updating rules for such parameters and prompt the user for missing or replacement values.

You do this by defining IPropertyUpdater<> classes for the properties you want to check/update.

The static class Prompters has a number of methods (e.g., GetEnum<>() in the exampel) that simplify getting values.

After defining your property updaters you create one or more ConfigurationUpdater<> classes to do the updating. You may want more than one ConfigurationUpdater<> because your console app may require different configuration rules depending upon how it's invoked.

The Property<,>() method binds a particular updater to a particular property. You can have multiple updaters bound to the same property.