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How do I provide an array/list of values as an environment variable to typesafe/lightbend config?

application.conf

default-buckets = [
      10,
      30,
      100,
      300,
      1000,
      3000,
      10000,
      30000,
      100000
    ]
default-buckets = [${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS}]

So, I'd like to pass something like this as an environment variable to be able to override the defaults:

DEFAULT_BUCKETS=1000,3000

However, I'm getting the following error:

com.typesafe.config.ConfigException$WrongType: env variables: buckets.default-buckets has type list of STRING rather than list of NUMBER

Is this possible without having to have my application code deal with it by e.g. calling split(',')?

Avinash Anand
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Rory
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  • See also the reasoning on the answer to [HOCON array substitution from envs](https://stackoverflow.com/a/65416875/1159167) – Ricardo Feb 22 '23 at 01:08

2 Answers2

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As far as I'm aware, there's no simple way to pass a list of environment variable to override an array of conf values.

You will have to set env vars like so:

export DEFAULT_BUCKETS_1=1000
export DEFAULT_BUCKETS_2=3000

Then pass them into the conf file:

default-buckets = []
default-buckets.0 = ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_1}
default-buckets.1 = ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_2}
airudah
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  • Unfortunately, this doesn't work as written due to https://gitter.im/lightbend/config?at=584045608d65e3830ec4b761 you would get "default-buckets has type OBJECT rather than LIST" I worked around it in our application by setting default-buckets.0 = "" default-buckets.0 = ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_1} then filtering the list in the application. – Jonathan Crosmer Jun 15 '20 at 16:03
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default-buckets = [
  ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_1},
  ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_2},
  ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_3},
  ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_4},
  ${?DEFAULT_BUCKETS_5}
]

For

DEFAULT_BUCKETS_1=10
DEFAULT_BUCKETS_2=30
DEFAULT_BUCKETS_5=100

Results in

TestConfig(List(10, 30, 100))
Patryk Celiński
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