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Envy automatically exposes environment variables for all of your Go flags
https://github.com/jamiealquiza/envy
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Envy automatically exposes environment variables for all of your Go flags
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jamiealquiza/envy
- Owner: jamiealquiza
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-12-19T20:12:23.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-08-11T13:37:35.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-06-18T14:08:40.472Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: cli, env, environment, environment-variables, flags, go-packages, golang, library
- Language: Go
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- Size: 10.7 KB
- Stars: 157
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 10
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
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# envy
Automatically exposes environment variables for all of your flags. It supports the standard flags package along with limited support for [Cobra](https://github.com/spf13/cobra) commands.
Envy takes a namespace prefix that will be used for environment variable lookups. Each flag registered in your app will be prefixed, uppercased, and hyphens exchanged for underscores; if a matching environment variable is found, it will set the respective flag value as long as the value is not otherwise explicitly set (see usage for precedence).
### Example: flag
Code:
```go
package mainimport (
"flag"
"fmt""github.com/jamiealquiza/envy"
)func main() {
var address = flag.String("address", "127.0.0.1", "Some random address")
var port = flag.String("port", "8131", "Some random port")envy.Parse("MYAPP") // Expose environment variables.
flag.Parse()fmt.Println(*address)
fmt.Println(*port)
}
```Output:
```sh
# Prints flag defaults
% ./example
127.0.0.1
8131# Setting flags via env vars.
% MYAPP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0" MYAPP_PORT="9080" ./example
0.0.0.0
9080
```### Example: Cobra
Code:
```go// Where to execute envy depends on the structure
// of your Cobra implementation. A common pattern
// is to define a root command and an 'Execute' function
// that's called from the application main. We can call
// envy ParseCobra here and configure it to recursively
// update all child commands. Alternatively, it can be
// scoped to child commands at some point in their
// initialization.var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
Use: "myapp",
}func Execute() {
// Configure envy.
cfg := CobraConfig{
// The env var prefix.
Prefix: "MYAPP",
// Whether to parse persistent flags.
Persistent: true,
// Whether to recursively update child command FlagSets.
Recursive: true,
}// Apply.
envy.ParseCobra(rootCmd, cfg)if err := rootCmd.Execute(); err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
}
```Output:
```sh
# Root command flags.
% myapp
Usage:
myapp [command]Available Commands:
help Help about any command
doathing This is a subcommandFlags:
-h, --help help for myapp
--some-config A global config [MYAPP_SOME_CONFIG]Use "myapp [command] --help" for more information about a command.
# Child command flags. Notice that the prefix
# has the subcommand name automatically appended
# while preserving global/parent env vars.
% myapp doathing
Usage:
myapp doathing [flags]Flags:
-h, --help help for myapp
--subcmd-config Another config [MYAPP_DOATHING_SUBCMD_CONFIG]Global Flags:
--some-flag A global flag [MYAPP_SOME_FLAG]
```### Usage
**Variable precedence:**
Envy results in the following order of precedence, each item overwriting the previous:
`flag default` -> `Envy generated env var` -> `flag set at the CLI`.Results referencing the stdlib flag example code:
- `./example` will result in `port` being set to `8131`
- `MYAPP_PORT=5678 ./example` will result in `port` being set to `5678`
- `MYAPP_PORT=5678 ./example -port=1234` will result in `port` being set to `1234`**Env vars in help output:**
Envy can update your app help output so that it includes the environment variable generated/referenced for each flag. This is done by calling `envy.Parse()` before `flag.Parse()`.
The above example:
```
Usage of ./example:
-address string
Some random address [MYAPP_ADDRESS] (default "127.0.0.1")
-port string
Some random port [MYAPP_PORT] (default "8131")
```If this isn't desired, simply call `envy.Parse()` after `flag.Parse()`:
```go
// ...
flag.Parse()
envy.Parse("MYAPP") // looks for MYAPP_ADDRESS & MYAPP_PORT
// ...
``````
Usage of ./example:
-address string
Some random address (default "127.0.0.1")
-port string
Some random port (default "8131")
```**Satisfying types:**
Environment variables should be defined using a type that satisfies the respective type in your Go application's flag. For example:
- `string` -> `APP_ASTRINGVAR="someString"`
- `int` -> `APP_ANINTVAR=42`
- `bool` -> `APP_ABOOLVAR=true`**Side effects:**
Setting a flag through an Envy generated environment variable will have the same effects on the default `flag.CommandLine` as if the flag were set via the command line. This only affect users that may rely on `flag.CommandLine` methods that make distinctions between set and to-be set flags (such as the `Visit` method).
**Cobra compatibility:**
The extensive types in Cobra's underlying [pflag](https://github.com/spf13/pflag) have not been tested, hence the "limited support" reference.
Also, keep in mind that Cobra can change in a way that breaks support with envy. Functionality was tested as of 2018-11-19.