using several stores / overrides - merges not as expected

[jondot]

Hi,
I'm trying to set up store as such:

conf.add 'user',   { type: 'file', file: 'config/config.local.json' }
conf.add 'global', { type: 'file', file: 'config/config.json' }

I then expect the user values to override the global values such that:

# user
{ port:4000}

# global
{ port:80}

but in every case i'm getting port:80 being resloved.
if i reverse the order like so:

conf.add 'global', { type: 'file', file: 'config/config.json' }
conf.add 'user',   { type: 'file', file: 'config/config.local.json' }

then i get undefined values, because global declares more values than in user.

# global
{ port:80, db:"host"}

# user
{ port:4000}

db is undefined -- seems to be overriden in user - but i'm not specifying it there in any case and expecting it to be merged from global.

anything i'm doing wrong here?

Thanks!

[mmalecki]

Does #13 work as you'd expect it?

[jondot]

going over #13's diff, i don't see any changes to merge logic, so i'm not sure. i guess i'll have to use the commiter's branch and try it.
in general i'm surprised by 'undefined' values overriding defined values.

[dominictarr]

@jondot hmm, that is how I would expect this to work as well. that is certainly the impression that I get from the usage of "hierarchical" in the README

[jfhbrook]

Here's another example:

https://gist.github.com/1387428

[jondot]

so in that case the movie param is undefined. is this intended?

[jfhbrook]

@jondot No.

[indexzero]

I'm investigating this. It will be fixed in the 0.5.x branch.

[indexzero]

This is confirmed fixed in the 0.5.x branch which I hope to have out by the end of the day.

[indexzero]

The tests which confirm this are the gist from @jesusabdullah verbatim with some vows and assertions in 38fcbc7

[indexzero]

This is fixed in [email protected] please see: https://github.com/flatiron/nconf/blob/master/test/hierarchy-test.js