is there and/or should there be .addConfigurationSection() equivalency to .addConnectionString()?

[secheledelaruse]

i've yet to reach my natural level of incompetence with behavior of IConfiguration in aspire orchestrations

suppose i want to permit .WithReference(configurationSection) composition, where configurationSection contains secrets or secret references, how can i accomplish this?

if this functionality doesn't exist i'm betting that it's a good 'first issue' for 'some coder' since surely some of the code associated with .AddConnectionString() can be reused

what i've considered

• .WithEnvironment() on the consuming projects, but there's a claim here that the environment is emitted with manifests, which won't satisfy the use case i have in mind

please advise

[davidfowl]

I'm not sure I understand the feature you are asking for.

[secheledelaruse]

and i'm not 100% sure if what i'm asking for matches anything in the apphost model

but i'm asking if there's a way to 'broadcast' not just a connectionstring, but an entire configurationsection from the apphost to clientapps -

• locally the 'broadcast' configsection would apply
• deployed resources would retrieve the configsection from the environment configuration stores local the the deployed environment as normal

this so conversation is trying to disambiguate the situation for connectionstrings, but if you substitute configurationsection for connectionstring that's what i'm wondering about

I don't know if this is still a problem, but I came across this problem as well and figured it might help someone else out. I tried the external parameters and that didn't work out for me while trying to connect to my local database and not the container. Here is what I did to get around this.

First put the connection string in the appsettings in the Apphost.

{
    "ConnectionStrings": {
        "sql": "your_connection_string"
    }
}
Then in the AppHost.Program.cs

string connectionString = builder.AddConnectionString("sql").Resource;
var database = builder.AddSql("sqlResource")
                      .WithConnectionStringRedirection(connectionString)
                      .AddDatabase("sqlDb");
This passed along the connection string to your application.

thanks

[davidfowl]

The primitive that exist is that you can set an environment variable. You can build in top of this to set multiple of them in a format that IConfiguration can understand (others have asked for this)

[secheledelaruse]

i see. i'll make do with an extension method for now
thanks