rust-cli / rust-cli/config-rs

Overriding enum values doesn't work

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Description

Consider the following enum:

#[derive(Deserialize)]
pub enum Config {
    Case1 {
        field: bool,
    },
    Case2 {
        field: String,
    },
}

It becomes impossible to override the value of Config in through overlaid sources leading to "value of enum Config should be represented by either string or table with exactly one key". I would like to be able to provide a default value for this configuration but have a later, more specific bit of config override this. Is this a change which would be acceptable?

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No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating the overlay handling for enum values; done means a later, more specific configuration source can replace a default enum value without the reported representation error.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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