Configurelink

This action, by convention, can be used to provide configuration values to a program.

For example, if a driver requires API credentials to operate, it can expose a configure action in its Root type to receive them:

export function configure({ args }) {
  // Keep configuration in the state object
  state.apiKey = args.apiKey;
}

The only especial treatment this action gets is that, for convenience, mctl will re-invoke the last known invocation when creating a new program.

For example:

$ mctl update my-driver
Program created

$ mctl action 'my-driver:configure(key:"my-api-key")'
Ok

$ mctl kill my-driver
Program killed

So far so good, we've created, configured and killed "my-driver". But now, if a program with the same name is created again, the configure action above will be automatically invoked with the same arguments to set-up the driver:

$ mctl update my-driver
Program created
Configuring with previous arguments

Other than that, configure is just another action.