package envflag import ( "flag" "log" "os" "strings" "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/envtemplate" ) var ( enable = flag.Bool("envflag.enable", false, "Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables in addition to the command line. "+ "Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. "+ "Flags are read only from the command line if this flag isn't set. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#environment-variables for more details") prefix = flag.String("envflag.prefix", "", "Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set") ) // Parse parses environment vars and command-line flags. // // Flags set via command-line override flags set via environment vars. // // This function must be called instead of flag.Parse() before using any flags in the program. func Parse() { ParseFlagSet(flag.CommandLine, os.Args[1:]) } // ParseFlagSet parses the given args into the given fs. func ParseFlagSet(fs *flag.FlagSet, args []string) { args = expandArgs(args) if err := fs.Parse(args); err != nil { // Do not use lib/logger here, since it is uninitialized yet. log.Fatalf("cannot parse flags %q: %s", args, err) } if !*enable { return } // Remember explicitly set command-line flags. flagsSet := make(map[string]bool) fs.Visit(func(f *flag.Flag) { flagsSet[f.Name] = true }) // Obtain the remaining flag values from environment vars. fs.VisitAll(func(f *flag.Flag) { if flagsSet[f.Name] { // The flag is explicitly set via command-line. return } // Get flag value from environment var. fname := getEnvFlagName(f.Name) if v, ok := envtemplate.LookupEnv(fname); ok { if err := fs.Set(f.Name, v); err != nil { // Do not use lib/logger here, since it is uninitialized yet. log.Fatalf("cannot set flag %s to %q, which is read from env var %q: %s", f.Name, v, fname, err) } } }) } // expandArgs substitutes %{ENV_VAR} placeholders inside args // with the corresponding environment variable values. func expandArgs(args []string) []string { dstArgs := make([]string, 0, len(args)) for _, arg := range args { s, err := envtemplate.ReplaceString(arg) if err != nil { // Do not use lib/logger here, since it is uninitialized yet. log.Fatalf("cannot process arg %q: %s", arg, err) } if len(s) > 0 { dstArgs = append(dstArgs, s) } } return dstArgs } func getEnvFlagName(s string) string { // Substitute dots with underscores, since env var names cannot contain dots. // See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/311#issuecomment-586354129 for details. s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, ".", "_") return *prefix + s }