updated at 2024-07-09T16:00:58-04:00

ext/app/gen-server/lib/configureSendGridNotifier.ts

@@ -43,13 +43,19 @@ export const SENDGRID_CONFIG: SendGridConfig = {
 export function configureSendGridNotifier(dbManager: HomeDBManager, gristConfig: GristServer) {
   if (!process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY) { return undefined; }
 
+  /* TODO: this naughty cast is because settings is of type
+   * IGristCoreConfig which doesn't have a sendgrid property. Need to
+   * properly fix this later.
+   */
+  const settings = gristConfig.settings as any;
+
   /* Settings are populated from config.json (located in GRIST_INST_DIR).
    *
    * TODO: FlexServer's type for `settings` is an object with unknown values. We should
    * take advantage of ts-interface-checker to make sure config.json has the right shape
    * when read at runtime, instead of unsafely asserting here.
    */
-  const sendgridConfig = gristConfig.settings?.sendgrid as SendGridConfig|undefined;
+  const sendgridConfig = settings?.sendgrid as SendGridConfig|undefined;
   if (!sendgridConfig) { return undefined; }
 
   return new Notifier(dbManager, gristConfig, sendgridConfig);

ext/app/server/lib/globalConfig.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import path from "path";
+import { getInstanceRoot } from "app/server/lib/places";
+import { IGristCoreConfig, loadGristCoreConfigFile } from "app/server/lib/configCore";
+import log from "app/server/lib/log";
+
+const globalConfigPath: string = path.join(getInstanceRoot(), 'config.json');
+let cachedGlobalConfig: IGristCoreConfig | undefined = undefined;
+
+/**
+ * Retrieves the cached grist config, or loads it from the default global path.
+ */
+export async function getGlobalConfig(): Promise<IGristCoreConfig> {
+  if (!cachedGlobalConfig) {
+    log.info(`Loading config file from ${globalConfigPath}`);
+    cachedGlobalConfig = await loadGristCoreConfigFile(globalConfigPath);
+  }
+
+  return cachedGlobalConfig;
+}