Dynamic environment setup for Xray plugin: loading config before test run

[KamilZiemski]

I'd like to store jira_url and jira_token in a YAML file and load them before the test run. However, since this is a plugin, it executes before any hooks or fixtures, so loading environment variables at that point is too late.

Is there an alternative approach to dynamically load these values without setting the environment variables statically?

[fundakol]

It is not safe to store a password or a token in a file; this is why the plugin uses environment variables. I can add an additional option to read those values from a file, but it should not be used in CI or stored in Git if you don't want someone to steal your credentials.

[samwarwick]

+1 for this feature. It would be really helpful if the plugin could read from .env files.

[fundakol]

@samwarwick You can easily read environment variables from .env file with this tool https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/
Just create a conftest.py and add these two lines to that file:

from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

[samwarwick]

@samwarwick You can easily read environment variables from .env file with this tool https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/ Just create a conftest.py and add these two lines to that file:

from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

Awesome! That hadnt been working for me because I had been calling load.dotenv() from within a session fixture. Putting it at the top of conftest.py solves it.