Get Settings Suggestions

Stable

Getting settings suggestions returns the recommended default path values for each setting field. The suggestions are platform-appropriate path templates that the UI can pre-populate into the settings form.

Property	Value
Applies to	Daemon
Trigger	Client requests suggested default values for the settings form
Preconditions	None

Inputs

There are no inputs.

Assertions

Assertion	Status
None — the operation always succeeds

Outputs

{ dcsWorkingDir?, dcsInstallDir?, dropzoneModsDir? } : An object with the three suggested path strings. All fields are optional strings. The current implementation always returns all three.

The suggested values are Windows path templates using environment variable placeholders:

Field	Suggested value
dcsWorkingDir	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\DCS
dcsInstallDir	%PROGRAMFILES%\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World
dropzoneModsDir	%LOCALAPPDATA%\DCS Dropzone\Mods

Note: These are suggestions only. The user may enter any path. Environment variable placeholders in the returned strings are not expanded — they are returned as-is for display in the UI.

Effects

None. This is a read-only operation returning static values.

Behavior

flowchart TD
    Start([GET /api/settings/suggestions]) --> Return[Return hard-coded path templates]
    Return --> Done(["{ dcsWorkingDir, dcsInstallDir, dropzoneModsDir }"])

    style Done fill:#4ade80,color:#000

See Also

• Get settings — Spec page for reading the currently stored values.
• Update settings — Spec page for writing new path values.
• Validate settings — Spec page for resolving and verifying configured paths on disk.