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Overview

Config.SaveAsYaml generates evnode.yaml with inline comments sourced from the comment: struct tags. It builds a yaml.CommentMap keyed by the field's YAML path, but the recursion into nested structs passed only the field's own yaml tag as the prefix instead of the accumulated dotted path. Any section nested three or more levels deep therefore produced a comment keyed to a non-existent path, which goccy/go-yaml silently drops.

On top of that, pointer-to-struct sections were skipped entirely, because the traversal only recursed when field.Type.Kind() == reflect.Struct.

Net effect in the generated config: these documented fields came out with no comments at all:

• da.tx_signer.*
• signer.kms.*, signer.kms.aws.*, signer.kms.gcp.*
• the whole instrumentation block (it is an *InstrumentationConfig)

You can see it today: run a node init and the tx_signer, kms and instrumentation blocks have bare keys while every sibling field is commented.

Changes

• Build the nested prefix from the full dotted path so nested comments map to the correct YAML node.
• Follow pointer fields to their element type so pointer-to-struct sections are traversed too.
• Add a regression test (TestSaveAsYamlNestedComments) that asserts the previously missing comments are present and sit directly above their keys.

Testing

go test ./pkg/config/...

The new test fails before the fix (comments absent) and passes after. go vet ./pkg/config/ and gofmt are clean.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed comment placement in generated YAML configuration files for nested and pointer-based settings.

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Walkthrough

SaveAsYaml now traverses pointer-to-struct fields and retains accumulated dotted paths for nested non-anonymous structs. It adds the $. prefix when recording comment paths. A regression test checks comment placement above selected nested and pointer-to-struct YAML keys.

Changes: Nested YAML comments

Layer / File(s)	Summary
YAML traversal and comment placement pkg/config/yaml.go, pkg/config/yaml_test.go	SaveAsYaml traverses pointer-to-struct fields and carries accumulated dotted paths when processing nested non-anonymous structs. The regression test checks that selected comments precede their YAML keys.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: tac0turtle

Merge Risk: Low · up to 66a1e

Saving a config whose instrumentation section is nil now returns an error instead of writing the file. Default configs are unaffected. Skipping nil pointer sections during traversal would fix this.

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Review comments at @pkg/config/yaml.go:
- Around line 69-70: Update processFields to receive and inspect field values,
skipping nil pointer fields before recursing into their element types so comment
paths are not collected beneath null sections. Add a regression case that sets
cfg.Instrumentation to nil and verifies SaveAsYaml succeeds and writes the file.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Skip nil pointer sections when collecting comment paths.

processFields follows pointer field types without reading their values. When cfg.Instrumentation is nil, the traversal still registers child paths such as $.instrumentation.namespace. go-yaml encodes the nil pointer as null. A child path under a null node returns ErrInvalidQuery, and setCommentByCommentMap returns that error. SaveAsYaml then fails before it writes the file. Before this change, pointer fields were skipped, so the same config saved successfully.

The default config sets Instrumentation, so this affects only configs where that field is nil. Pass field values through processFields and skip a nil pointer before recursing into its element type. Add a regression case that sets cfg.Instrumentation = nil and asserts that SaveAsYaml succeeds and writes the file.

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Review comment at @pkg/config/yaml.go around lines 69 - 70:
Update processFields to receive and inspect field values, skipping nil pointer fields before recursing into their element types so comment paths are not collected beneath null sections. Add a regression case that sets cfg.Instrumentation to nil and verifies SaveAsYaml succeeds and writes the file.

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