dotnet-appsettings 0.1.0

dotnet-appsettings - .NET tools

A tool to convert appsettings.json files to json name-value format support bulk update to Application Settings on Azure AppService.

Nuget package

Build Status

Getting started

Samples

• appsettings.json

{
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Warning",
      "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
    }
  },
  "Array": [
    {
      "Name": "Value1"
    },
    {
      "Name": "Value2"
    }
  ],
  "AllowedHosts": "*"
}

• Azure AppService / Configuration / Application Settings / Advanced edit (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-common#edit-in-bulk)

[
  {
    "name": "AllowedHosts",
    "value": "*",
    "slotSetting": false
  },
  {
    "name": "Array__0__Name",
    "value": "Value1",
    "slotSetting": false
  },
  {
    "name": "Array__1__Name",
    "value": "Value2",
    "slotSetting": false
  },
  {
    "name": "Logging__LogLevel__Default",
    "value": "Information",
    "slotSetting": false
  },
  {
    "name": "Logging__LogLevel__Microsoft",
    "value": "Warning",
    "slotSetting": false
  },
  {
    "name": "Logging__LogLevel__Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime",
    "value": "Information",
    "slotSetting": false
  }
]

• Text format for manually update Azure AppService / Configuration / Application Settings

AllowedHosts
*

Array__0__Name
Value1

Array__1__Name
Value2

Logging__LogLevel__Default
Information

Logging__LogLevel__Microsoft
Warning

Logging__LogLevel__Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime
Information

Installation dotnet tool globally

Download and install the .NET Core 3.1 SDK or .NET Core 5 SDK or newer. Once installed the .NET Core SDK, run the following command:

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-appsettings

If you already have a previous version of dotnet-appsettings installed, you can upgrade to the latest version using the following command:

dotnet tool update --global dotnet-appsettings

Usage

appsettings appsettings.json appsettings.Production.json

Installation dotnet tool to a path

You can install the tool dotnet-appsettings to a folder

dotnet tool install dotnet-appsettings --tool-path C:\Development\Project1\tools

Usage

C:\Development\Project1\tools\appsettings.exe appsettings.json appsettings.Production.json

Installation dotnet tool locally

You can either install the tool locally in the project folder scope as https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/local-tools-how-to-use

cd /d C:\Development\Project1
dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install dotnet-appsettings

Usage

C:\Development\Project1\Core> dotnet appsettings appsettings.json appsettings.Production.json

Usage

Command line global:
  appsettings [appsettings.json [appsettings.Production.json]]

Command line local:
  dotnet appsettings [appsettings.json [appsettings.Production.json]]

Command line tool path:
  "C:\Development\Project1\tools\appsettings.exe" [appsettings.json [appsettings.Production.json]]

Parameters:
  -p|--path             path to appsettings.json, appsettings.Production.json
  -o|--output-file      path to output-file.json
  -t|--text             output in text format
  --skip-slot-setting   skip SlotSetting=false
  -?|-h|--help          help
  --version             version of this tool