When to template a configuration property versus a literal

[tbenade]

Hi,

Before I go raising issues for improvements I was hoping I could get a brief explainer on how the decision is made to template a configuration property versus a literal. Apologies I don't have any rust skills past hello world otherwise I would figure it for myself.

For example I think it would be useful to template the bucket property of the aws_s3 sink as a template. But there may be perfectly good reasons for why it isn't already. Understanding how the decision is made for template vs literal will help me not raise pointless issues and hopefully be a more useful contributor.

Thanks

[pront]

Hi @tbenade, there is some overhead when using templates but if a static value is set, then that generally doesn't affect performance too much. Templates are very flexible. We are not trying to avoid templates but we (or external contributors) usually add them if there's a need. In this case, if you need to read bucket from each event, then it is a valid use case.