Should configmgr support dot notation within YAML?

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Sometimes we tell people to set components.zss.port when we mean

components:
  zss:
    port:

And, it's really easier to tell people 1 line instead of trusting people educate themselves on how to use YAML.

zwe startup takes YAML and flattens it, and part of that is to turn every . into _

Today, you can put this in the YAML

components.zss.port: 8888
components:
  zss:
    port: 9999

The environment variables you will recieve at runtime is

components_zss_port: 8888 or 9999

We don't know which wins.

But this is allowed by configmgr because "components.zss.port" is a key, and is not within the "components" key, so it is not validated.

So, users today can indeed type dot notation into the YAML, but it may not be read.
It'd work for APIML, because they only read env vars.
It wont work for ZSS or app-server, because they actually do read the YAML.

So, my ask is: can we enhance configmgr such that it does consider dot notation, folds it in, and all the cfgGet commands can handle it?

Then users could go flat, or go YAML, and it'd be up to them, we wouldn't care.

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