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@cypress/env-or-json-file

Loads JSON object from environment string or local file

Install

Requires Node version 6 or above.

npm install --save @cypress/env-or-json-file

Use

If you have configuration file locally foo.json with all your settings, load it directly

const {configFromEnvOrJsonFile} = require('@cypress/env-or-json-file')
const config = configFromEnvOrJsonFile('foo.json')
if (config) {
  // ok, loaded somehow
} else {
  console.error('Missing config...')
}

But when you move to CI, just grab the file's contents and put it as environment variable foo_json (environment variables often have restrictions on characters, so replace all /.- characters in the path with _)

cat foo.json | pbcopy

Paste the contents into CI variable foo_json and it should load the config on CI without checking in a sensitive file.

Debug

To see verbose log message from this module, run with DEBUG=env-or-json-file ... environment variable.

Filename

Given a filename with path, function filenameToShellVariable converts it to environment key name, normalizing slashes and dots.

const {filenameToShellVariable} = require('@cypress/env-or-json-file')
filenameToShellVariable('foo/bar/.me.json')
// foo_bar__me_json

Tips

To prevent committing sensitive files use ban-sensitive-files
Make sure CI does NOT leak environment variables to forks, like CircleCI does

Stop CircleCI default variable leak

Small print

License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame us if it does not work.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Usage no npm install needed!