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# ReferenceFileDocument.WriteConfiguration

The configuration for writing document contents.

```
typealias WriteConfiguration = FileDocumentWriteConfiguration
```

## Discussion

This type is an alias for [`FileDocumentWriteConfiguration`](/documentation/SwiftUI/FileDocumentWriteConfiguration), which
contains a content type and a file wrapper that you use to access the
contents of a document file, if one already exists. You get a value
of this type as an input to the [`fileWrapper(snapshot:configuration:)`](/documentation/SwiftUI/ReferenceFileDocument/fileWrapper(snapshot:configuration:))
method.

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