action-dotenv-to-setenv

GitHub action to export a .env file to environment variables (via $GITHUB_ENV)

Adapted from https://github.com/madcoda/dotenv-shell

Inputs

env-file

Required Path to the dotenv file. Default ".env".

Outputs

echo "{name}={value}" workflow commands to $GITHUB_ENV.

echo "TEST_DEFAULT_ENVFILE=expected" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_DOTENV_OVERRIDES_DEFAULT=unexpected" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_UNQUOTED=unexpected" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_UNQUOTED=a=1 b=2 c=3" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_SINGLE_QUOTED=1 2 3 4" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_DOUBLE_QUOTED=1 2 3 4" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_INTERPOLATION=a=1 b=2 c=3 d=4" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_EXISTING=new-value" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_DOTENV_OVERRIDES_DEFAULT=expected" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "TEST_NO_NEWLINE=still there" >> $GITHUB_ENV

Example Usage

uses: c-py/action-dotenv-to-setenv@v2
with:
  env-file: .env

Tests

$ bash tests/dotenv-test.sh
Contents of $GITHUB_ENV file:
TEST_DEFAULT_ENVFILE=expected
TEST_DOTENV_OVERRIDES_DEFAULT=unexpected
TEST_UNQUOTED=unexpected
TEST_UNQUOTED=a=1 b=2 c=3
TEST_SINGLE_QUOTED=1 2 3 4
TEST_DOUBLE_QUOTED=1 2 3 4
TEST_INTERPOLATION=a=1 b=2 c=3 d=4
TEST_EXISTING=new-value
TEST_DOTENV_OVERRIDES_DEFAULT=expected
TEST_NO_NEWLINE=still there

Testing blank line parsing: ok
Testing unquoted: ok
Testing single quoted: ok
Testing double quoted: ok
Testing interpolation: ok
Testing overwrite of existing variables: ok
Testing parsing of last line: ok
Test loading variables from default.env file: ok
Test .env variables override variables from default.env file: ok
Test error message from missing .env file: ok
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