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Support VCAP_SERVICES_FILE_PATH

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, cloud

Research direction

Start by tracing the plugin behavior that creates default-env.json and populates VCAP_SERVICES; no source files or tests are named in the issue. Use the documented VCAP_SERVICES_FILE_PATH behavior and the provided cf ssh command as the integration reference, and consider the work done when file-based bindings are read and stored in the default-env VCAP_SERVICES variable.

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Description

Cloud foundry added support of file-based VCAP services to bypass the size limit of VCAP_SERVICES as explained in the documentation below:

It would be nice to enhance this plugin to automatically read the content of the bindings stored in a file and to store it in the default-env VCAP_SERVICES variable.

Content can be read with cf ssh command:
cf ssh <app-name> -c 'cat $VCAP_SERVICES_FILE_PATH'

Dominant language
Go
Stars
6
Forks
4
Avg merge
1m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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