Use dedicated dotenv library?

[joho]

Hi @ddollar,

I've got a go dotenv port at https://github.com/joho/godotenv which might be worth integrating to make forego and foreman closer to 100% compatible. I'd ported all the tests from the ruby dotenv library to ensure compatibility.

I'm happy to do a pull request if you want to use the library, just thought it'd be polite to ask first incase you wanted to do the .env handling yourself.

[subosito]

👍 @joho. Would be great to see opensource projects collaborate to reduce duplication while increasing ability.

Just in case you don't know, I did also create similar project like yours, a port of dotenv, https://github.com/subosito/gotenv, which is also fully compatible with dotenv.

Would be great to see one of these ports to be merged into forego, let see @ddolllar response :).

By the way, what do you think is better, is it ok to keep two similar projects exists along with others or merge into a single project?

[ddollar]

Do either of these libraries let me load a .env file into a map rather than straight into os.Environ?

[joho]

Not at this stage, but I could add a godotenv.Read() that returns instead of doing os.Setenv on everything

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[ddollar]

I think that would be necessary to add it cleanly to forego. If you want to either create that Read method or even better submit a pull request to forego that would be awesome.

[subosito]

Gotenv have support for that. You can using Parse() function. Here's the example:

// import "strings"

pairs := gotenv.Parse(strings.NewReader("FOO=test\nBAR=$FOO"))
// gotenv.Env{"FOO": "test", "BAR": "test"}

pairs = gotenv.Parse(strings.NewReader(`FOO="bar"`))
// gotenv.Env{"FOO": "bar"}

[ddollar]

@subosito Perfect, I switched forego to use gotenv. Thanks!

[subosito]

You're welcome @ddollar 👍