Dont loose settings after externally editing

If you change settings (i.e. by editor) so that the settings file does not contain valid JSON electron-settings empties the settings file 😦

I would appreciate electron-settings distinguishes parsing errors from file access errors!

[stavlocker]

@nathanbuchar Instead of emptying the invalid file, throwing an “invalid JSON” error and not retrieving data from settings (as there is none because the file is invalid) would be a cleaner solution.

[k7sleeper]

I’m not sure whether I understood you right. My intention is to make my App fail gracefully if the settings contain invalid data.

My App only reads the settings. It’s not required to change the settings by the App itself but by using an editor. If the service personal changes a setting it’s required that the App do not start-up but fail with displaying a descriptive message. I would implement this by catching a JSON parsing exception.