.env not working in CI/CD

[Navil]

I am having a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub actions. The .env file seems not to be picked up correctly there.
Everything works fine on my machine when I run the app. Also wenn I build the AppBundle, the .env file is in there.

For my own sanity check, I added a step in my pipeline to list the directory and the file is there and has the correct filesize:

However, when I try to access anything (e.g. static final isProduction = dotenv.env["IS_PRODUCTION"]), the value is basically undefined.
My main method looks like this:

void main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  await dotenv.load();
  ...

No error is thrown when I am loading the file itself, but the content seems not to be there.
I am adding the .env file via a secret:

  - name: Add ENV
        env:
          ENV_FILE_CONTENT: ${{ secrets.ENV }}
        run: |
          echo $ENV_FILE_CONTENT > .env

But as shown in the directory step, the file seems to exist and as await dotenv.load(); doesn't throw an error, the file seems to work, but I just cant read data from it apparently.

[sirkev]

had the same issue, but got it resolved by passing in the file name when loading the .env
await dotenv.load(fileName: '.env'); WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized(); await Firebase.initializeApp(options: DefaultFirebaseOptions.currentPlatform); runApp(const MyApp());

also in my script

- uses: actions/checkout@v3 - uses: subosito/flutter-action@v2 with: flutter-version: '3.16.7' channel: 'stable' - name: Make envfile uses: SpicyPizza/create-envfile@v2.0 with: envkey_ENVIRONMENT: ${{ secrets.ENVIRONMENT }} envkey_API_URL: ${{ secrets.API_URL }} file_name: .env

[manuelzzz]

Can anyone that tested it tell me if this solves the problem?

[mth-dwarf]

I only got this working by putting it in secrets with base64 encoding and then decoding it in the pipeline.

use base64 -i .env | pbcopy to copy the encoding to your clipholder

use echo $ENV_FILE_CONTENT | base64 -d > .env to decode it in the pipeline