[Feature] settings import/export

[dpantel]

Feature request:

I would love an easy way to export and import the settings. It would help greatly with automated deployment (Ansible, etc.) of Heimdall.

I know I can copy the sqlite db, but that seems messy and might interfere with db changes in the future.

Some ideas:

1. The most rudimentary way to implement this would be a simple sql dump and ingest. This way, all you need is a text file.

   • upsides
     • easy to implement
   • downsides
     • hard to read/edit manually
     • have to trust that text file is well-formed

2. A more complicated, but better way would be to transform the necessary data to/from a config file.

   • downsides
     • harder to implement
   • upsides
     • easy to read/edit
     • well-structured and well-documented syntax
     • there are parsers/validators/builders already available in Laravel
   • formats to consider
     • TOML
     • YAML
     • JSON
     • INI

[DavidRawling]

An alternative or extension to this might be for the admin to be able to add the app to a "shared" section of the heimdall world, which then makes it available to all users for pinning (but not customisation).

[dakipro]

I would also like this as I would like to provision server and include heimdall dashboard preconfigured based on services server is heaving. Perhaps even a web API would work.

[justjake]

I just finished setting up a new server. The hiemdall part is the only thing that I haven't figured out how to automate :(.

[justjake]

See also #383 ”Web GUI Backup”.

[makcuber]

Just got Heimdall running in docker to test it out. The lack of some sort of bulk import feature is a big negative for me. I have a ton of URL's preorganized as bookmarks, and I'd love to be able to just export those and import them into Heimdall so they are accessible as a slashpage