MapleLeaf 🍁•6mo ago

Set environment variables programmatically

I want to set up a Doppler webhook which updates secrets in Convex. I know of two ways to update secrets: through the dashboard, and through the CLI. CLI seems like the easiest route, but I'm not exactly sure how to do this arbitrarily:

C:\dev
❯ CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY="dev:fake-project-777|superreallylongstringthathasaconvexkeyinit" pnpx convex env set TEST itworks
✖ Unable to read your package.json: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\dev\package.json'. Make sure you're running this command from the root directory of a Convex app that contains the package.json

C:\dev
❯ CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY="dev:fake-project-777|superreallylongstringthathasaconvexkeyinit" pnpx convex env set TEST itworks
✖ Unable to read your package.json: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\dev\package.json'. Make sure you're running this command from the root directory of a Convex app that contains the package.json

And I figure going down this route will run into other issues, since I imagine the CLI wasn't built to do this. Accomplishing this through the dashboard is possible but extremely cursed, and I would prefer not to pull out puppeteer/playwright for this :ultra_joy: Tentatively, I'm thinking a GitHub action triggered by a workflow might work, which would have the source directory and the surrounding dev environment, but that feels like a lot of orchestration. Is there any way to accomplish this right now?

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Convex Bot•6mo ago

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MapleLeaf 🍁OP•6mo ago

I figured there was something I was missing, but this might actually be a feature request instead 😅

ari•6mo ago

Heya, as you discovered, there's no way to programmatically update your environment variables right now. The dashboard and CLI are powered by an API under the hood, but we haven't externalized that. We're thinking about how we'll do that in the future for some of these "deployment management" use cases

ballingt•6mo ago

Removing the requirement that convex be run in the same directory as a package.json when CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY is set might be reasonable here, at least for some metadata commands like this — but that doesn't help much with your webhook case. Agree that someday an API for this would be nice.

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