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Using vcapFile to create/update cf user-provided service #53

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@LuiSlacker

Hi,

I'm using cfenv to handle my credentials. I setup a cf user-provided service within cf and added a local vcapFile for running the app locally.

This is how I read the credentials (locally and prod)

// read envs from file if running locally =========================
let localVCAP = null;
try {
  localVCAP = require('./vcap-local-env.json');
} catch (error) {
  // silently ignoring failure when running inside cloudfoundry
}

// include environment variables from vcap service
const appEnv = cfenv.getAppEnv({ vcap: localVCAP });
const cfEnv = appEnv.getService('credential-service-test-app').credentials;

That all works fine, the only issue I see is when updating the user-provided service. In order to be able to use the same code for reading the envs, my vcapFile looks like this:

{
    "application": {
        "port": 4002
    },
    "services": {
        "credential-service-test-app": [
            {
                "credential-service-test-app",
                "credentials": {
                    "SECRET_PWD":"<***>",
                  
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

But this way I'm not able to use the file for updating the service with cf update-user-provided-service credential-service-test-app -p ./vcap-local-env.json, since it will nest the application/services within the cf services object.

I don't want to use the interactive cf update-user-provided-service credential-service-test-app -p command every time a change a parameter and having to add all params again.

What would be the recommend way of maintaining the user-provided service amongst several coders?

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