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Service Config Specification
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Configuration options are a crucial component of any application. EmbassyOS requires a particular format to ensure your service integrates smoothly with the user interface. This enables clean handling of improper values and dependency management.
Overview
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Most self-hosted applications require the user to tell the app how to behave using a config file in a specific format, environment variables, command-line arguments, or some combination of these inputs. One of the coolest features of EmbassyOS is that, when packaged correctly, the app's configuration will be available to the user as a slick GUI that always produces a valid configuration no matter how little experience or skill the user has.
With EmbassyOS, this means a service wrappers' configuration requires a particular format and rule structure to ensure it integrates smoothly with the user interface. This format enables clean handling of improper values and dependency management.
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