Configuration

The package offers a loadConfigurationSettings function which allows reading configuration settings from a short JSON format file. This provides a convenient way to configure various settings (like endpoint URLs) without having to hardcode these into MATLAB® code. By convention settings are stored in the Software/MATLAB/config directory. When calling loadConfigurationSettings the name of the configuration file must be provided as input, e.g.:

settings = loadConfigurationSettings('mysettings.json');

If only a filename is provided the function will search for the file on the MATLAB path. Alternatively a full absolute path can be provided as well.

An example mysettings.json file could look something like the following:

{
    "myURL": "https://www.mathworks.com"
}

And then in MATLAB this could be used as:

settings = loadConfigurationSettings('mysettings.json');
homePage = webread(settings.myURL);

Authentication

The configureCredentials function for creating Azure® Credentials objects relies on loadConfigurationSettings as well, it uses this same function to read its settings from a JSON configuration file. Typically both Authentication and other settings are in fact kept in a single JSON file. See Authentication for more details on authentication specific configuration options as used by configureCredentials.

Service specific settings

Service specific functions may rely on other additional configuration settings as well. And they typically work with a service specific default filename for the JSON file. But in most cases alternative filenames can be provided as well.

See the service specific documentation pages for more information on service specific settings, the default JSON filename and how to provide an alternative configuration file name if needed: