Investigate how to bind variables defined in Bluemix to a Swift application about kitura

[dfirsht]

Comment by rfdickerson
Thursday Jan 14, 2016 at 17:07 GMT

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It would be nice if there was something like cfenv package that exists in NodeJS for Cloud Foundary platforms that makes it easier to read environment variables related to the authentication and database names.

One thing that I think that we can do better than cfenv is to be able to switch between production mode and development mode. If the developer is running the web app locally on the development machine, it would use hardcoded values for auth and db names and IP addresses, however when deployed on Bluemix or another server, it can switch to using environment variables.

[dfirsht]

Comment by rfdickerson
Thursday Jan 14, 2016 at 17:12 GMT

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For the time being, we can just use: NSProcessInfo for reading env. vars.

[dfirsht]

Comment by ricardo-olivieri
Thursday Jan 14, 2016 at 19:42 GMT

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Good points! As a reference for ourselves, just providing here the link to the documentation cloud foundry provides for VCAP_SERVICES environment variable - http://docs.run.pivotal.io/devguide/deploy-apps/environment-variable.html#VCAP-SERVICES

To Robert's point above, we would need to double check if we can access the VCAP-SERVICES env variable through NSProcessInfo.

[rfdickerson]

We should follow cfenv Node Package API very similarly, since that's what developers are used to using.

[rfdickerson]

This is a duplicate of @rolivieri issue where he's creating a CFenv, right?