Workaround for "Missing environment variable in config" validation

[GreyTeardrop]

Hi!

I'm looking for a way to workaround or suppress Vector's "Missing environment variable in config" validation. The reason is I'm trying to attach the schema generated by vector generate-schema to Vector's YAML. There are two ways IDEs support doing that:

# $schema: ./vector.schema.json

and

# yaml-language-server: $schema=./vector.schema.json

Unfortunately, both options include $schema in a comment so Vector validation fails with

x Missing environment variable in config. name = "schema"

[jszwedko]

Ah, interesting. You could just export schema="" before running vector validate. Vector will end up ignoring the line as a comment anyway. I can't think of another good workaround 🤔

[GreyTeardrop]

Thank you, I'll use that workaround for now 👍

As Vector would eventually ignore YAML comments, is it possible long-term not to validate env var references there?

[jszwedko]

Yeah, that is being tracked by #797

[GreyTeardrop]

Awesome, thank you!