Make `dotnet-user-jwts` support custom appsettings json file

[abc-rpg]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem.

I want to be able to use dotnet-user-jwts in a project that does not use appsettings.Development.json for local development. In some cases for instance, it is appsettings.Local.json.

Although it is easy to copy it into another appsettings file, it's an inconvenience since previous data gets overwritten.

Describe the solution you'd like

The current behavior can be overriden by an optional argument.

• Option 1: An argument to specify appsettings file

dotnet user-jwts create --configurationFile appsettings.Local.json

• Option 2: An argument to specify environment, then infer the file name (appsettings.{env}.json)

dotnet user-jwts create --environment Local

• Option 3: Skip writing to the appsettings file, and output the configuration to the console instead, for manual copying.

dotnet user-jwts create --disable-auto-config

I did not think too much about naming, as I would like to see if there is interest in this.

Additional context

There was a very brief mention of the idea of disabling the configuration in the issue here #46239, but in a different context.

[amcasey]

Seems reasonable, if not urgent, to me. @captainsafia?

@abc-rpg In the meantime, have you tried using a symlink so the files don't get out of sync?

[abc-rpg]

@amcasey It would not work in my case, since the appsettings.Development.json is used in a development cloud environment (so it has the proper settings).

So currently, after using the dotnet-user-jwts tool, I copy the settings into the appsettings.Local.json and then revert the values in the appsettings.Development.json.