environment variable not working

[syedyousafraza]

can you please tell me where I should add the environment variables (directory?) like PRIVATE_KEY, SECRET_WORDS etc for metamask wallet? right now it's not recognizing the one I added in my cypress.json file. I also tried without env variable using ;
setupMetamask(secretWordsOrPrivateKey, network, password), for example: setupMetamask('word1, word2, etc..', 'mainnet', 'password').
but This is also not working i am getting error;
Error: Please provide SECRET_WORDS or PRIVATE_KEY environment variable
at Object. (E:\cypressZedrun\node_modules\←[4m@synthetixio←[24m\synpress\synpress.js:13:9)

[drptbl]

@syedyousafraza cypress.env is not process.env, so it's not working.

It's explained in the README:
https://github.com/Synthetixio/synpress#-important

You have many different options:

1. You can use env vars as a prefix before your command, for example: ENV_VAR=VALUE synpress run
   Lets say that you have npm run test which runs synpress run. Then you can also run ENV_VAR=VALUE npm run test.
2. You can use dotenv (check preload section):
   https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv
   Create new .env file with variables and then run synpress run additionally requiring your .env file.
3. You can specify env variables with export ENV_VAR=VALUE before running tests.

.. and many more different ways. You can also refer to synpress usage examples which are also mentioned in README:
https://github.com/Synthetixio/synpress#%EF%B8%8F-synpress

Cheers,
Jakub.

[dion49]

hi @drptbl I'm running into a similar issue. When I run synpress help I get the same message; Error: Please provide SECRET_WORDS or PRIVATE_KEY environment variable. I have .env file at my root with all the vars set

"dependencies": { "@synthetixio/synpress": "^1.1.1", "dotenv": "^10.0.0" },
"devDependencies": { "@cypress/code-coverage": "^3.9.12", "chai-sorted": "^0.2.0", "cypress": "^9.2.0", "cypress-metamask": "^1.0.5-development", "synthetix-js": "^2.56.1" },
"scripts": { "test": "e2e", "cy:open": "CYPRESS_REMOTE_DEBUGGING_PORT=9222 cypress open" },

[PascalMayr]

I've created a .env file and used dotenv to preload all the envs defined in that file. The following works for me:
dotenv -f ./tests/e2e/.env npx synpress run

[lucianoacsilva]

@PascalMayr , have you run dotenv as a global dependency?

[PascalMayr]

@lucianoacsilva yes

[Loque18]

I can't get this to work :(

[steezeburger]

I had to set the path correctly in playwright.config.ts for the envfile. You can actually see a working example here https://github.com/astriaorg/web-apps/pull/197/files

The playwright and synpress commands seemingly run the config file first. I thought I was to load the env in the wallet setup file, but that file gets transpiled to js and called from .cache-synpress I believe.