Problem

Developers using the SDK cannot configure the location of the mongodb-realm directory generated by the SDK when using Atlas App Services functionality (including Device Sync).

The generated location of the mongodb-realm directory causes issues when building applications with Electron. see this forum thread for a community user-reported error. and see this application i build a couple months back for a example of the error in a full application.

I'm not sure if there are other scenarios that require or would benefit from this solution, but i could imagine that there are.

Solution

Add an additional AppConfiguration property for specifying the path for the mongodb-realm directory.

For example:

AppConfiguration.mongodbRealmFilePath = 'my/custom/path';

Note: the .NET Realm SDK already has a similar implementation of this functionality with BaseFilePath.

How important is this improvement for you?

Would be a major improvement