// this helps whenever a 'task' gets refactored to become an 'alias' (e.g. 'pkg-build' task renamed to 'deb', and 'pkg-build' became a task alias)
// note that the task settings take precedence over the alias' settings.
func (s *Settings) MergeAliasedTaskSettings(aliases map[string][]string) {
//for each per-task setting name/value pair:
for taskSettingTaskName, taskSettingValue := range s.TaskSettings {
//loop through aliases, getting alias,tasks:
for staticSettingAlias, aliasedTasks := range aliases {
// if the specified TaskSetting == this alias:
if staticSettingAlias == taskSettingTaskName {
//merge into results ...
for _, aliasedTask := range aliasedTasks {
aliasedTaskValue, exists := s.TaskSettings[aliasedTask]
//if settings already exists for the actual task - merge
if exists {
if s.IsVerbose() {
log.Printf("Task settings specified for %s. Merging %v with %v", aliasedTask, aliasedTaskValue, taskSettingValue)
}
// merge
s.TaskSettings[aliasedTask] = typeutils.MergeMaps(aliasedTaskValue, taskSettingValue)
} else {
if s.IsVerbose() {
log.Printf("alias didnt exist. Setting %s to %v", aliasedTask, taskSettingValue)
}
//add ...
s.TaskSettings[aliasedTask] = taskSettingValue
}
}
}
}
}
}
func LoadJsonConfigs(dir string, configs []string, verbose bool) (Settings, error) {
//most-important first
mergedSettingsMap := map[string]interface{}{}
for _, jsonFile := range configs {
settingsMap, err := loadJsonFileAsMap(jsonFile, verbose)
if err != nil {
if os.IsNotExist(err) {
//continue onto next file
} else {
//parse error. Stop right there.
return Settings{}, err
}
} else {
mergedSettingsMap = typeutils.MergeMaps(mergedSettingsMap, settingsMap)
}
}
return loadSettingsSection(mergedSettingsMap)
}