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wasi:config

interface dependency pre-release

A WASI API for providing configuration to a component.

Interfaces

Worlds

imports

Exports

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WIT

package wasi:config@0.2.0-rc.1;

interface store {
  /// An error type that encapsulates the different errors that can occur fetching configuration values.
  variant error {
    /// This indicates an error from an "upstream" config source.
    /// As this could be almost _anything_ (such as Vault, Kubernetes ConfigMaps, KeyValue buckets, etc),
    /// the error message is a string.
    upstream(string),
    /// This indicates an error from an I/O operation.
    /// As this could be almost _anything_ (such as a file read, network connection, etc),
    /// the error message is a string.
    /// Depending on how this ends up being consumed,
    /// we may consider moving this to use the `wasi:io/error` type instead.
    /// For simplicity right now in supporting multiple implementations, it is being left as a string.
    io(string),
  }

  /// Gets a configuration value of type `string` associated with the `key`.
  ///
  /// The value is returned as an `option<string>`. If the key is not found,
  /// `Ok(none)` is returned. If an error occurs, an `Err(error)` is returned.
  get: func(key: string) -> result<option<string>, error>;

  /// Gets a list of configuration key-value pairs of type `string`.
  ///
  /// If an error occurs, an `Err(error)` is returned.
  get-all: func() -> result<list<tuple<string, string>>, error>;
}

world imports {
  import store;
}