What is your preference for storing hard coded data?

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Hi friends, I have some hard-coded settings that I need to create a form with it, but it is so long in some page.
I want to ask what is your preference for keeping it. You import from a Jason file, or you are comfortable with dirty module like this code.

As you see, I have a long list for each tuple which I need to have them in runtime

Thank you in advance

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We basically use an Agent to read yaml config files, then have an api like…

OurConfig.get("/some/config/value")

For our use case, I can’t see the Agent becoming a bottleneck.

That said, I wish there was some mechanism to recompile files if some other dependent file changed.

Something like…

defmodule MyConfig do
  recompile_if_changed "priv/config.json"

  File.read("priv/config.json")
  |> set_module_attributes_and_accessor_functions()
end
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There is, it is called @external_resource. If you are reading a static configuration, there is never a need to use any runtime constructs, when you can inject the configuration into the module directly.

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Every day I love this language more and more… the community too. Wow, this is a game changer for me! Thank you.

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And, remember to use __mix_recompile__?/0 :wink:

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