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Bridge Description Files

Bridges are described in source files called Bridge Description Files with the extension .brg.hcl.

Bridge descriptions are written in a configuration language called TriggerMesh Integration Language, which is based on the HCL syntax, as explained in the Concepts section of the documentation.

Each Bridge Description File contains the description of a single Bridge.

Syntax Highlighting

The following extensions enable support for syntax highlighting of HCL files (any *.hcl file extension) in various popular IDEs/Text editors:

Code Formatting

The GitHub repository of the HCL toolkit contains the source code of a command-line tool called hclfmt, which can be used for formatting HCL files.

Binary releases of this tool are available at teamon/hclfmt (GitHub).

Visual Studio Code Extension