How to make external file references more usable and configurable

Serverless Framework
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I keep a collection of reusable AWS stateMachine configuration fragments in an external JSON file to promote a high-degree of code-reuse. For example, I can add retry and catch blocks from this external json with the references in yellow highlighter below:

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My inquiry relates to the “Payload” reference highlighted in green which extracts the configuration value from “SessionResponse” property from the “model.json” file.

I would like to make the “SessionResponse” more configurable to allow the jsonPath to be passed in from the external file reference. In this example, the path is “$”. I would like to be able to pass in different jsonPath values to override or set them where the static “$” path is set.

Is it possible for one to do this? If so, what is the syntax?

Thank you,

Jay

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Not sure how to do exactly what you specified, but I have seen examples where the included file is able to reference a e.g. custom variable from the including file.

The example I saw was here: GitHub - murali44/RDS-Aurora-Serverless: Aurora Serverless Deployment and Migration Demo. though the variables in the sub files didn’t all match up with those in the top level file the overall principle did work.

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Thanks. Although I have moved on from this, I appreciate your suggestion and I will checkout the demo you linked.

Cheers!

Jay