What did you do?

context:
we do some validations on incoming prometheus config, and then write it to a file for prometheus to pick up.
In our internal code we use config.Load this nicely imports the users config and verifies it. Later on we use cfg.String() to write it to a file.

When using the .String() method on the config, it will convert the HTTPClientConfig.TLSConfig.MinVersion on load nicely from a String to a TlsVersion. but after calling .String() it will save a number (like 772) instead of the original string value from the user. This is currently breaking our logic.

The question is: Is the .String() method failing to map back the value, or is this expected behaviour

What did you expect to see?

given:

  tls_config:
    min_version: "TLS12"

i want

  tls_config:
    min_version: "TLS12"

after calling .String()

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

  tls_config:
    insecure_skip_verify: false
    min_version: 771

System information

Darwin 21.6.0 arm64

Prometheus version

github.com/prometheus/common v0.37.0
github.com/prometheus/prometheus v0.38.0

Prometheus configuration file

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Alertmanager version

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Alertmanager configuration file

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Logs

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