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• [tutorial v1.1_012] Set a default value (diff)

[tutorial v1.1_013)] The variable is a "choice" variable

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Structure

firefox/00-proxy.yml

%YAML 1.2
---
version: 1.1

proxy_mode:
  description: Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
  choices:
    - No proxy
    - Auto-detect proxy settings for this network
    - Use system proxy settings
    - Manual proxy configuration
    - Automatic proxy configuration URL
  default: No proxy
...

Let's generate the documentation

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_013
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -o doc -do github

Variable	Description
proxy_mode choice mandatory	Configure Proxy Access to the Internet. Choices: - No proxy ← (default) - Auto-detect proxy settings for this network - Use system proxy settings - Manual proxy configuration - Automatic proxy configuration URL

Let's generate the changelog

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_013
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -o doc --doc.contents changelog -do github

Modified variable

Variable	Description
proxy_mode string choice mandatory	Configure Proxy Access to the Internet. Choices: - No proxy ← (default) - Auto-detect proxy settings for this network - Use system proxy settings - Manual proxy configuration - Automatic proxy configuration URL

User datas

Example 1

config/01/config.yaml

---

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_013
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/01/config.yaml

╭─────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Default value │
╰────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy

Example 2

config/02/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: No proxy

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_013
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/02/config.yaml

╭────────────── Caption ───────────────╮
│ Variable Modified value              │
│          (⏳ Original default value) │
╰──────────────────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/02/config.yaml" (⏳ No proxy)

Example 3

config/03/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: Manual proxy configuration

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_013
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/03/config.yaml

╭────────────── Caption ───────────────╮
│ Variable Modified value              │
│          (⏳ Original default value) │
╰──────────────────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: Manual proxy configuration ◀ loaded from the YAML file "config/03/config.yaml" (⏳ No proxy)

Example 4

config/04/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: foo

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_013
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/04/config.yaml

🔔 WARNINGS
┗━━ the value "foo" is an invalid choice for "proxy_mode" (Configure Proxy Access to the Internet), only "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network", "Automatic proxy configuration URL", "Manual proxy 
    configuration", "No proxy" and "Use system proxy settings" are allowed, it will be ignored when loading from the YAML file "config/04/config.yaml"
╭─────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Default value │
╰────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy

Example 5

config/05/config.yaml

---
proxy_mode: 1

Output

foo@bar:~$ git switch --detach v1.1_013
foo@bar:~$ rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -ff config/05/config.yaml

🔔 WARNINGS
┗━━ the value "1" is an invalid choice for "proxy_mode" (Configure Proxy Access to the Internet), only "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network", "Automatic proxy configuration URL", "Manual proxy 
    configuration", "No proxy" and "Use system proxy settings" are allowed, it will be ignored when loading from the YAML file "config/05/config.yaml"
╭─────── Caption ────────╮
│ Variable Default value │
╰────────────────────────╯
Variables:
┗━━ 📓 Configure Proxy Access to the Internet: No proxy

• [tutorial v1.1_020] Group variables inside a family (diff)