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Raise an error if providing environment variables to shinyapps.io
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Description
Environment variables are silently ignored when deploying to shinyapps.io.
Does shinyapps.io just silently ignore the --environment parameters? Can this error informatively so that you don't have to read the docs to figure out why the app isn't working as expected?
Originally posted by @nealrichardson in https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/issues/438#issuecomment-1614943782
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Research direction
Start by tracing the shinyapps.io deployment path and how the --environment parameters are handled. Make the unsupported environment-variable case fail with an informative error instead of being silently ignored, then verify that deployments without those parameters continue to work.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100