Enable passing IFileProvider into appropriate ConfigurationSources

[tugberkugurlu]

I want to use EmbeddedFileProvider on IniFileConfigurationSource but it's tightly coupled to FileSystem as far as I can see. It would be great if this source and other appropriate ones like JsonConfigurationSource accepted IFileProvider to be passed in.

I can give this a go if this is something meaningful to have.

[muratg]

This is a good to have. @tugberkugurlu do you still have time to give it a go?

[tugberkugurlu]

Sure, I can give this a go during this weekend.

[kirthik]

@tugberkugurlu Just wanted to check on the status of this issue. Could you please let me know if you are you currently working on it or plan to work on it?

[tugberkugurlu]

@kirthik Yep, will look at it today.

[tugberkugurlu]

Looking at this now and it seems that file-based config sources supposed to work with absolute paths. However, IFileProvider implementations supposed to work with relative paths.

Are we happy changing the behavior in file-based config sources?

[tugberkugurlu]

The other issue I am seeing is that Microsoft.AspNet.FileProviders.Abstractions is not available on '.NETPlatform,Version=v5.0' I assume. I can ifdef my way to the victory for now but not sure what would be the best way.

[tugberkugurlu]

I think this needs a bit more thinking through as we will end up referencing Microsoft.AspNet.FileProviders.Abstractions here which is under Microsoft.AspNet whereas the Configuration library is under Microsoft.Framework.

[muratg]

Moving to Beta 7 to discuss this one further.