ASP.NET Core appsettings.json update in code

Question

I am currently working on project using asp.net core v1.1, and in my appsettings.json I have:

\"AppSettings\": {
   \"AzureConnectionKey\": \"***\",
   \"Azu         


        

Answer 1

There is an esier answer to modify the appsettings.json at runtime.

Json File structure

var filePath = Path.Combine(System.AppContext.BaseDirectory, "appSettings.json");

string jsonString = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filePath);

//use https://json2csharp.com/ to create the c# classes from your json
Root root = JsonSerializer.Deserialize(jsonString);

var dbtoadd = new Databas()
{
    Id = "myid",
    Name = "mynewdb",
    ConnectionString = ""
};

//add or change anything to this object like you do on any list
root.DatabaseSettings.Databases.Add(dbtoadd);

//serialize the new updated object to a string
string towrite = JsonSerializer.Serialize(root);

//overwrite the file and it wil contain the new data
System.IO.File.WriteAllText(filePath, towrite);