how to use ficus to load inner config

[kretes]

I have an example like this:

 "load embedded config with ficus" in {
      import net.ceedubs.ficus.readers.ArbitraryTypeReader._
      import net.ceedubs.ficus.Ficus._
      val config = ConfigFactory.parseString(
        """a { value = 2 }
          |b { value = 3 }""".stripMargin)

      case class Conf(value:Int)

      config.as[Conf]("a").value must_==(2)
      config.as[Conf]("b").value must_==(3)

      def getConf(config:Config) : Conf = {
        config.as[Conf]
      }

      val a:Conf = getConf(config.getConfig("a"))
      val b:Conf = getConf(config.getConfig("b"))
    }

where 'getConf' does not compile. What I want is to make 'getConf' method working as a config parser, which is given config part only, without knowing what the surrounding key was.

currently I nned to do config.asConf or else I do not get a 'Conf' instance.

is it something missing in Ficus, or am I doing something wrong?

[ceedubs]

Yeah, as of now Ficus doesn't support extracting a value without its key. At one point I tried to implement Ficus so that readers were based just on value types and not keys, but the Typesafe Config API just is not very conducive to that.

One silly workaround is to put the value at a dummy key and then extract that key. For example:

private[this] val DummyKey = "dummy-key"

def getConf(config:Config) : Conf = {
  config.atKey(DummyKey).as[Conf](DummyKey)
}

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[artgon]

Created a PR that can hopefully address it -- at least the way I've been using Ficus in my app.

See: #11

[arkadius]

You can wrap your config object this way:

ConfigFactory.empty().withValue("x", config.root()).as[T]("x")