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[Feature] settings import/export #294
Description
Feature request:
I would love an easy way to export and import the settings. It would help greatly with automated deployment (Ansible, etc.) of Heimdall.
I know I can copy the sqlite db, but that seems messy and might interfere with db changes in the future.
Some ideas:
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The most rudimentary way to implement this would be a simple sql dump and ingest. This way, all you need is a text file.
- upsides
- easy to implement
- downsides
- hard to read/edit manually
- have to trust that text file is well-formed
- upsides
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A more complicated, but better way would be to transform the necessary data to/from a config file.
- downsides
- harder to implement
- upsides
- easy to read/edit
- well-structured and well-documented syntax
- there are parsers/validators/builders already available in Laravel
- formats to consider
- TOML
- YAML
- JSON
- INI
- downsides
Activity
DavidRawling commentedon Nov 20, 2018
An alternative or extension to this might be for the admin to be able to add the app to a "shared" section of the heimdall world, which then makes it available to all users for pinning (but not customisation).
dakipro commentedon Dec 12, 2018
I would also like this as I would like to provision server and include heimdall dashboard preconfigured based on services server is heaving. Perhaps even a web API would work.
justjake commentedon Nov 10, 2019
I just finished setting up a new server. The hiemdall part is the only thing that I haven't figured out how to automate :(.
justjake commentedon Nov 14, 2019
See also #383 ”Web GUI Backup”.
makcuber commentedon Jan 29, 2020
Just got Heimdall running in docker to test it out. The lack of some sort of bulk import feature is a big negative for me. I have a ton of URL's preorganized as bookmarks, and I'd love to be able to just export those and import them into Heimdall so they are accessible as a slashpage