feat: Read application config .cortexrc from file

[vansangpfiev]

Support reading config from file, it would be easier for us/user to change data folder, port, etc

~$ cat .cortexrc

dataFolderPath: /home/jan/cortex
cortexCppHost: 127.0.0.1
cortexCppPort: 3929
apiServerHost: localhost
apiServerPort: 1337

[dan-homebrew]

Question: how would this work if user has multiple Cortex versions installed?

• cortex
• cortex-nightly
• cortex-beta

[vansangpfiev]

We can add different section for each version, I think

[cortex]
  dataFolderPath: /home/jan/cortex
  cortexCppHost: 127.0.0.1
  cortexCppPort: 3929
  apiServerHost: localhost
  apiServerPort: 1337

[cortex-nightly]
...
[cortex-beta]
...

[vansangpfiev]

Discord discussion for more information: https://discordapp.com/channels/1107178041848909847/1204617960615055401/1278255058466635898

[namchuai]

PR: #1094

[freelerobot]

@namchuai Can I check, did we go with A or B:

A: Separate Configuration files
Stable: /Users//.cortexrc
Beta: /Users//.cortexrc-beta
Nighty: /Users//.cortexrc-nightly

B: Universal configuration file
~/.cortexrc only.

Trivial difference but need to remember for uninstaller and other processes. I feel A is easier to track long term...

[namchuai]

Great question @0xSage . I think we go with B. But we don't have any confirmation yet, so please leave your objection if my assumption is wrong.

• We only have one configuration file ~/.cortexrc
• ~/.cortexrc will contain configuration for each variants (prod, beta, nightly)

@dan-homebrew @vansangpfiev @nguyenhoangthuan99

[freelerobot]

Great question @0xSage . I think we go with B. But we don't have any confirmation yet, so please leave your objection if my assumption is wrong.

• We only have one configuration file ~/.cortexrc
• ~/.cortexrc will contain configuration for each variants (prod, beta, nightly)

@dan-homebrew @vansangpfiev @nguyenhoangthuan99

Ah this might be insconsistent from spec: #1115 (comment)

cc @dan-homebrew

[namchuai]

@0xSage you are right. I missed that one. Let's go with A.

[namchuai]

FYI, since we only have cortexcpp as backend, we will only have below settings.

dataFolderPath: /Users/jamesnguyen/cortexcpp
apiServerHost: 127.0.0.1
apiServerPort: 3928

[namchuai]

Move to QA since PR is merged.

[gabrielle-ong]