[discourse] Flipt import overwrite file without --drop?

[markphelps]

Originally posted by csyding on Discourse

hi there!

is there any chance flipt import could support overwriting a file without having to drop the entire database? perhaps with a new flag like --overwrite?

in my use case, i have multiple namespaces under one instance of flipt. i found that the import for one of the namespaces had gone wrong (for some reason just didn’t propagate some of the segments and left them as {}), and i wanted to be able to re-import the flags for that namespace without dropping the other namespaces in the database. --skip-existing also wouldn’t have worked for the ones where the segments didn’t propagate since the flag itself already existed, it’s just the segments were a little off.

[markphelps]

Reply from mark on Discourse:

Hi @csyding !

We added a --skip-existing flag to import in a recent version to only import new data instead of requiring you to drop the DB. Does this solve your issue?

  <a href="https://docs.flipt.io/cli/commands/import" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flipt</a>

import - Flipt

Import Flipt data from file/stdin

[markphelps]

Reply from csyding on Discourse:

Hi Mark!

unfortunately, this doesn’t work for this use case as the flag already existed, but the rollouts/segments were corrupted. is there any way to only drop one namespace maybe?