support configuration via environment variables #3572
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Before this commit, when passed a malformed credentials.json the application
crashed with a stack dump. Now we catch the error and fail in a controlled way
(like already done for settings.json).
Example of exception we no longer throw:
MALFORMEDJSON
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token M in JSON at position 0
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at Object.reloadSettings (<BASEDIR>/src/node/utils/Settings.js:390:24)
at Object.<anonymous> (<BASEDIR>/src/node/utils/Settings.js:543:9)
at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:489:3)
at Module.require (module.js:579:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
Grouped copied & pasted code into a single function.
No functional changes.
All the configuration values can be read from environment variables using the
syntax "${ENV_VAR_NAME}".
This is useful, for example, when running in a Docker container.
EXAMPLE:
"port": "${PORT}"
"minify": "${MINIFY}"
"skinName": "${SKIN_NAME}"
Would read the configuration values for those items from the environment
variables PORT, MINIFY and SKIN_NAME.
REMARKS:
Please note that a variable substitution always needs to be quoted.
"port": 9001, <-- Literal values. When not using substitution,
"minify": false only strings must be quoted: booleans and
"skin": "colibris" numbers must not.
"port": ${PORT} <-- ERROR: this is not valid json
"minify": ${MINIFY}
"skin": ${SKIN_NAME}
"port": "${PORT}" <-- CORRECT: if you want to use a variable
"minify": "${MINIFY}" substitution, put quotes around its name,
"skin": "${SKIN_NAME}" even if the required value is a number or a
boolean.
Etherpad will take care of rewriting it to
the proper type if necessary.
Resolves #3543
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This patch series prepares the
Settings.jsmodule, getting rid of duplicate code, and then implements support for configuring Etherpad via environment variables, as per proposal in #3543 (which, in turn, steals from Elastic Search's configuration syntax, albeit with a small difference).All the configuration values can be read from environment variables using the syntax
"${ENV_VAR_NAME}".This is useful, for example, when running in a Docker container.
EXAMPLE:
Would read the configuration values for those items from the environment
variables
PORT,MINIFYandSKIN_NAME.REMARKS:
Please note that a variable substitution always needs to be quoted, even if it is substituing a variable that normally would not need to be quoted in json.