Ability to override config properties via command line arguments

[guylabs]

Hi,

we have a CI environment where we run multiple projects and each one has e webapp running for the tests. Now we have some kind of logic which searches a free port to start the server and tell the application on which port the server is running. Now i just found out that I could override the port setting in the config by starting testacular with this command line argument:

--port=1234

But I can't create objects in the command line to use for example for the proxies property. Is there a possibility to add them via command line arguments or system properties ?

Thanks and regards,

Guy

[vojtajina]

Can't you have a separate config file per "project" with static port numbers ? That's what we do on Angular CI server.

Anyway, the whole testacular.conf.js is executed javascript, so you could for instance use ENV variable:

port = process.env.MY_PORT;
proxies = {
  '/web/': 'http://localhost:' + port + '/'
};

And then:

MY_PORT=1111 testacular start

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Besides that, it would be possible to configure proxies through CLI options, doing something like this:

testacular start --proxies./web/=http://localhost:1111/

But I'm not super crazy about it :-D

[guylabs]

The problem is that we evaluate the port at build time and we set it dynamically. But the last hint with the CLI option worked. I tried it already but I didn't know the notation of a json object as a command line parameter ;).

Thanks for your fast answer!

PS: I think we can close the issue now ;).

[hparra]

I still vote for this feature.