Hi! Every time someone calls

pants run

, I want do add flag:

--filter-address-regex='.*@resolve=XXX'

. I imagine there's some way to do this in

pants.toml

? In particular, can

XXX

be an environment variable? Essentially, I want to specify that when I call

pants run path/to/my:file

it should call

pants run path/to/my:file@resolve=XXX

, were

XXX

is set according to some environment variable (or some other mechanism)

you can have an alias, so:

[cli.alias]
resolve-filter = "--filter-address-regex='.*@resolve=%(env.XXX)s'"

and then the invocation could include that:

pants run resolve-filter path/to/some:file

if you want the filter to always be set, you could set that in the config too:

[filter]
address_regex = ["..."]

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for 🙂

I’m not aware of that for the syntax used in the

pants.toml

file.. but you could have a

.pants.bootstrap

file, which is basically a shell script, and it could do:

: ${VAR_NAME:=default}
export VAR_NAME

that way you’re guaranteed to always have a value for it…

Forgot to reply: thanks, I ended up going with the easy solution 🙂

@curved-television-6568 this is very useful functionality without any reference in the docs (unless I missed it..)