package envflag import ( "flag" "log" "os" "strings" ) var enable = flag.Bool("envflag.enable", false, "Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. "+ "Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. "+ "Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't 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() { flag.Parse() if !*enable { return } // Remember explicitly set command-line flags. flagsSet := make(map[string]bool) flag.Visit(func(f *flag.Flag) { flagsSet[f.Name] = true }) // Obtain the remaining flag values from environment vars. flag.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 := os.LookupEnv(fname); ok { if err := f.Value.Set(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 environment variable %q: %s", f.Name, v, fname, err) } } }) } 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. return strings.ReplaceAll(s, ".", "_") }