Mechanism for passing additional options to `datasette my.db` that affect plugins

It’s a shame there’s no obvious mechanism for passing additional options to datasette my.db that affect how plugins work.

The only way I can think of at the moment is via environment variables:

DATASETTE_INSERT_UNSAFE=1 datasette my.db

This will have to do for the moment - it’s ugly enough that people will at least know they are doing something unsafe, which is the goal here. _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette-insert/issues/15#issuecomment-667346438_

[simonw]

I renamed --config to --setting and changed it to work like this:

datasette --setting sql_time_limit_ms 1000

Note the lack of colons.

This actually makes colons cleaner to use for plugins - I could support this:

datasette --setting datasette-insert:unsafe 1

[simonw]

That’s pretty elegant: each plugin gets its own namespace and can register new settings.