multiline values in envFile

[cyrfer]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I am limited in my java application debugging because I need to set a "multiline" value for an environment variable.

Multiline values are supported in other .env implementations like:

• https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv
• https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv#multi-line-values

Describe the feature you'd like

I would be satisfied with multiline support offered by the dotenv library for .env files. This would greatly help debugging java applications.

It will look like this, where \n characters separate the lines.

SOME_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----\nfoo=bar=\n-----END ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----\n"

[connor4312]

Code pointer:

vscode-js-debug/src/targets/node/nodeLauncherBase.ts

Line 568 in db28686

function readEnvFile(file: string): { [key: string]: string } {

[cyrfer]

@connor4312 thanks for the reference. It looks like an obvious implementation to me. Something like,

const env = dotenv.parse(Buffer.from(buffer));
//for (const line of buffer.split('\n')) {
//   ....
//}

When I cloned the repo I saw these errors in the tests.

  184 passing (10s)
  2 failing

  1) urlUtils
       isLoopback
         totes invalid:
     Error: Timeout of 2000ms exceeded. For async tests and hooks, ensure "done()" is called; if returning a Promise, ensure it resolves. (vscode-js-debug/out/src/common/urlUtils.test.js)
      at listOnTimeout (internal/timers.js:554:17)
      at processTimers (internal/timers.js:497:7)

  2) urlUtils
       isLoopback
         http://[:1:1]/foo:
     Error: Timeout of 2000ms exceeded. For async tests and hooks, ensure "done()" is called; if returning a Promise, ensure it resolves. (vscode-js-debug/out/src/common/urlUtils.test.js)
      at listOnTimeout (internal/timers.js:554:17)
      at processTimers (internal/timers.js:497:7)

[connor4312]

That's weird. Those tests call to dns.lookup, maybe something is running a little slow on your machine. I wouldn't worry about it.