feat: Add a plausibility check for Meilisearch configuration #1186
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Tutor is meant to be configured with either its own, or an externally preconfigured Meilisearch instance. Thus, the combination of configuring RUN_MEILISEARCH: false and leaving MEILISEARCH_URL at its default is almost certainly a configuration error. Add an alert to notify the user of that configuration issue. Related issue: overhangio#1185
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| run_meilisearch = get_typed(config, "RUN_MEILISEARCH", bool, True) | ||
| if not run_meilisearch: | ||
| meilisearch_url = get_typed(config, "MEILISEARCH_URL", str, "") | ||
| meilisearch_url_default = get_defaults()["MEILISEARCH_URL"] |
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I'd like to avoid making another call to get_defaults here, which is slow. Can we just hardcode "meilisearch"?
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I'm never a big fan of hardcoding the values of defaults, because it means that if the default ever changes, you need to fix it in more than one place. Is there another (better) way to avoid the get_defaults() call?
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I'm never a big fan of hardcoding the values of defaults, because it means that if the default ever changes, you need to fix it in more than one place.
[thoughts] While I agree with this, I try to weigh the effort involved in determining how many "changes" are needed. If it is needed in very few places, it can be okay to hardcode.
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I do agree with you Florian that hard-coding values is typically a bad practice. There are other ways to bypass this, but I wouldn't say they are "better". They include:
- Your approach: calling
get_defaults(), which is slow. - Implementing a
CONFIG_DEFAULTS_LOADEDaction that would save a singleton copy of the (unrendered) config defaults, which would be quite complex.
If we ever forget to modify the meilisearch URL default, the warning you added will be present in the console stderr. Also, to make sure we don't forget to update this value, you could add a unit test.
Tutor is meant to be configured with either its own, or an externally preconfigured Meilisearch instance. Thus, the combination of configuring
RUN_MEILISEARCH: falseand leavingMEILISEARCH_URLat its default is almost certainly a configuration error.Add an alert to notify the user of that configuration issue.
Related issue:
#1185