Custom save-location

[riek-lt]

situationI
Often be out of house for over a week, and since the default save location is appdata, I can't sync that up easily.
But I do use something like Google Drive and therefore could manage a cross-system save-settings thing.

Wanted solution
Not per se other system settings, but definitely the table data and filled-in days be thrown to a file in a location the user can set.
By doing it this way, I can on the main computer point it to c:/users/documents/info.db, and on another computer it imports data from d:/things/resoday/info.db, and make it still work.
So settings are different per computer, but actual calendar data is similar.

[rybak]

That's a very reasonable request and I would consider implementing this.

There is a workaround: you can pass a path as an argument to Resoday. So far, it was only intended to be used for testing. It is currently not supported as a user-facing feature, so use it on your own risk:

java -jar resoday-release.jar <insert path to your directory here>

The directory will be used both for data and configuration files.

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Here's another much-less-likely-to-work-on-Windows workaround. On Unix-like systems Resoday is compliant with XDG Base Directory Specification. Using the Specification, a user on a Unix-like system (e.g. Linux) can override environment variables XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME to control where Resoday puts the data and configuration files correspondingly. E.g. via a custom Bash script:

#!/usr/bin/bash
export XDG_DATA_HOME=...
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=...
java -jar resoday-release.jar

For finding the paths to the directories Resoday uses library directories-jvm. The library also supports generating the paths to equivalent directories on Windows.

I don't know it is possible to override the paths generated for Windows in directories-jvm. Reading dirs-dev/directories-jvm#49 it seems that it's not possible. Some projects even roll their own implementation just for Windows to make overrides possible sbt/sbt#6408.

[rybak]

Preliminary work started in branch https://github.com/rybak/resoday/tree/custom-data-dir

[rybak]

Released in v1.3.