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Load only one section from a YAML config file

I have multiple components that each of them needs to load specific definitions for it to run, I want to make one big YAML file divided into sections, that each section will belong to a different component.

So instead of having 4 config files for 4 components I'll have one big config file that divided into sections.

Now I want to load on each component just the relvant section from the yaml config file.

Can I do it? and how?

Update:

Both answers have satisfied me (embedded YAML files in one YAML file and the other answer was to unmarshal the JSON to an object that contains only the relevant section I'm interstring in).

Solution

  • The YAML specification allows to have multiple YAML documents in one file by delimiting them with ---: http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2760395

    You would have to check how the library you're utilizing handles this.