Mollycoddle Rules Files

There are two types of files

• .mollyset - This is a set of rules files, one per line each referencing a .mollyfile
• .molly - This is a single or multiple rule implementation file.

Molly Set Files

Mollysets are simply text files with the name of one rules file on each line:

#This is a comment line
alledconfig.molly
allgitignore.molly
allnugetconfig.molly

A molly set file will look for each of the named rules files in the same directory and load it into mollycoddle. This is a fine grained way of grouping up individual molly rules into collections. Lines that start with a # character are ignored and serve as comments.

Molly Rules Files

Molly rules files are collections of rules implementations themselves. A molly file can contain one or more rules, and each rule follows the same format:

{
    "Rules": [
        {
            "Link": "<A Hyper Link To Rules Help>",
            "Name": "<The descriptive name of your rule>",
            "RuleReference": "<A Unique Reference>",
            "Validators": [
                {
                    "AdditionalData": [
                        "<An Array of one or more strings of supporting info>"
                    ],
                    "Control": "<A keyword indicating the type of rule>",
                    "PatternMatch": "<A minmatch Pattern to match on>",
                    "ValidatorName": "<The type of validator used>"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "RulesetName": "A Name to group all the rules together"

There is more detail on how to create these files here Creating Molly Rules