cascade

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🌊 Cascade

Cascade is a modular configuration loader for Go. It merges configuration from multiple sources in a cascading order:

File < Environment < Command-line flags

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Features

• 📂 Load from YAML or TOML files
• 🌍 Override with environment variables
• 🖥️ Override with command-line flags
• ⚡ Define defaults in your Go structs
• 🔌 Modular & reusable across projects

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Quick Example

type Config struct {
    Server struct {
        Port int    `yaml:"port" toml:"port" env:"PORT" flag:"port"`
        Host string `yaml:"host" toml:"host" env:"HOST" flag:"host"`
    }
    Security struct {
        EnableTLS bool   `yaml:"enable_tls" toml:"enable_tls" env:"ENABLE_TLS" flag:"enable-tls"`
        CertFile  string `yaml:"cert_file" toml:"cert_file" env:"CERT_FILE" flag:"cert-file"`
    }
}

func main() {
    cfg := Config{}
    cfg.Server.Port = 8080 // default
    cfg.Server.Host = "0.0.0.0"

    loader := Cascade.NewLoader(
        Cascade.WithFile("config.yaml"), // or config.toml
        Cascade.WithEnvPrefix("APP"),
        Cascade.WithFlags(),
    )

    if err := loader.Load(&cfg); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    fmt.Printf("Server running on %s:%d (TLS: %v)\n",
        cfg.Server.Host, cfg.Server.Port, cfg.Security.EnableTLS)
}

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Priority Order

1. Defaults (in Go struct)
2. Config file (YAML/TOML)
3. Environment variables (APP_PORT=9000)
4. Command-line flags (--port=7000)

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License

MIT

Documentation

Index

• type Loader
  • func NewLoader(opts ...Option) *Loader
  • func (l *Loader) Load(cfg any) error
• type Option
  • func WithEnvPrefix(prefix string) Option
  • func WithFile(path string) Option
  • func WithFlags() Option

Types

type Loader

type Loader struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

func NewLoader

func NewLoader(opts ...Option) *Loader

func (*Loader) Load

func (l *Loader) Load(cfg any) error

type Option

type Option func(*Loader)

func WithEnvPrefix

func WithEnvPrefix(prefix string) Option

func WithFile

func WithFile(path string) Option

func WithFlags

func WithFlags() Option