Typesafe config: Load additional config from path external to packaged scala application

Question

My scala application will be packaged into a jar. When I run my app, it needs to read an additional config file stored externally to my app jar. I am looking for functionality s

Answer 1

If your external configuration is to add to or override configuration parameters from standard locations, you can do the following:

val baseConfig = ConfigFactory.load()
val config = ConfigFactory.parseFile(yourFile).withFallback(baseConfig)

where yourFile is a java.io.File Documentation reference here