How can I declare the API key for Syncthing?

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1

I’m trying to declare the API key for Syncthing:

      extraOptions = [ "--gui-apikey=12345" ];
      extraOptions.gui = {
        user = "foo";
        password = "bar";
      };

, but it doesn’t seem to allow me to specify both extraOptions and extraOption.gui. Probably just an understanding of the language problem;)

I get:

error: attribute 'extraOptions.gui' already defined at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:434:7
2

I’m not sure if you just want an answer that uses the home-manager sync module, but I do what you want using home.file:

home.file."./.config/syncthing/" = { source = ../configs/syncthing; recursive = true; };

That’s assuming also you can use home-manager.

If not, then you need to make changes to your syntax because extraOptions must be a JSON value. You can see how to declare it correctly in the search-nixos example.

3

Looks like you have declared extraOptions.gui in two places. Maybe it is on two different lines in configuration.nix or you are importing another .nix which contains another extraOptions.gui declaration.

4

Right, but I don’t understand how the syntax is supposed to be.

5

No, I have not declared extraOptions.gui in two places; it’s just that I have to put something in extraOptions and I have to put something else in extraOptions.gui.

6

Ah, ok, it’s like this:

      extraOptions.gui =
        {
          user = "foo";
          password = "bar";
          apikey = "12345";
        };