go-envload

Restore environment variables, so you can break 'em

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SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Certain applications that require reloading of configuraiton from environment variables are sensitive to these values being changed.

Or maybe you are writing a test that wants to temporarily change the value of an environment variable, but you don't want it to linger afterwards.

In other languages this can be done with a "temporary" variable, like in Perl5:

use strict;
use 5.24;

sub foo {
  $ENV{IMPORTANT_VAR} = "foo";
  say $ENV{IMPORTANT_VAR}; # "foo"

  {
    local %ENV = %ENV; # inherit the original %ENV,
    $ENV{IMPORTANT_VAR} = "bar";
    say $ENV{IMPORTANT_VAR}; # "bar"
  }
  # 

  say $ENV{IMPORTANT_VAR}; # "bar"
}

This library basically allows you to do this in Go