Environment variable not found since symfony 5.1

[jfsenechal]

Hello

Since symfony 5.1 when running vendor / bin / behat there is an error message

In EnvVarProcessor.php line 171:

Environment variable not found: "DATABASE_URL".

To reproduce the error, just install a new application in 5.1

Here are my composer depedencies :

"behatch/contexts": "3.3.0",
"friends-of-behat/mink": "^1.8",
"friends-of-behat/mink-browserkit-driver": "^1.4",
"friends-of-behat/mink-extension": "^2.4",
"friends-of-behat/symfony-extension": "^2.0",
"theofidry/alice-data-fixtures": "^1.1"`

[jfsenechal]

I found the problem
Symfony 5.1 delete the file config/bootstrap.php

symfony/symfony#35308

Here's how to fix it:

In friends-of-behat/symfony-extension/src/ServiceContainer/SymfonyExtension.php
Add this line in the method loadBootstrap

    private function loadBootstrap(?string $bootstrap): void
    {
        if ($bootstrap === null) {
            (new Dotenv())->bootEnv(basename(dirname(__DIR__)).'/../.env');
            return;
        }

        require_once $bootstrap;
    }

But it will have to be done more cleanly

[rimoi]

Great! Thanks @jfsenechal
Don't forget load the Dotenv class 😉

[ymarillet]

Solution without hacking vendors:

behat.yaml

default:
  extensions:
    FriendsOfBehat\SymfonyExtension:
      bootstrap: 'config/behat/bootstrap.php'
      # ...

config/behat/bootstrap.php

<?php

(new Symfony\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv())->bootEnv(dirname(__DIR__, 2).'/.env');

[NicoHaase]

Another idea I've used: the PHPUnit stuff still ships a bootstrap.php which either uses config/bootstrap.php or DotEnv loading. I've referenced this in behat.yaml and now both testing tools use the same bootstrap.php

[kadzany]

Solution without hacking vendors:

behat.yaml

default:
  extensions:
    FriendsOfBehat\SymfonyExtension:
      bootstrap: 'config/behat/bootstrap.php'
      # ...

config/behat/bootstrap.php

<?php

(new Symfony\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv())->bootEnv(dirname(__DIR__, 2).'/.env');

In my opinion, this should become a part of symfonyextension's documentation regarding handling environment variable.

Thanks BTW

[gdalyy]

Any clean solutions please ?

[jfsenechal]

Pr is ready #127

[NicoHaase]

Any clean solutions please ?

How would you determine that a solution is "clean"? What's wrong with the given examples?

[gdalyy]

The amount of effort to resolve a problem can easily determine if the solution if clean or not.

Regarding the given examples nothing wrong with them , they already solve the problem. thanks.

[sargath]

Side note here. Whilst you have the phpunit already installed, its recipe provides the test/bootstrap.php file.

I've used it in the behat.yml and it works

    extensions:
        FriendsOfBehat\SymfonyExtension:
            bootstrap: tests/bootstrap.php

Why not to use the same approach and just to provide a recipe that will provide the file or just update the docs?

[reypm]

hi there, as today this still an issue? I am trying to run/debug Behat Scenarios using PhpStorm and I am getting the same exact error as everyone here. Also what should I do if I do not have such test/bootstrap.php file? 🤔 I do have a config/bootstrap.php tho, is that the same and should be used to avoid this issue?

[b2p-fred]

IMHO, the best solution remains to introduce the environment variables loading in the extension loadBootstrap function (as of #127).

This because if you did not set the APP_ENV variable accordingly to the configuration used for the kernel in the behat.yml.dist file, you will get an incorrect configuration because you will not load the variables defined in the .env.test file but only the .env file.

Take care to always run Behat with:

APP_ENV=test ./vendor/bin/behat

[reypm]

@b2p-fred I running Behat same as in your example but for some reason, PhpStorm does not see the variables defined at .env 😐

[b2p-fred]

@reypm I do not use PHPStorm to run the Behat tests. As such, sorry, I cannot help ...

[jeroendesloovere]

IMHO, the best solution remains to introduce the environment variables loading in the extension loadBootstrap function (as of #127).

This because if you did not set the APP_ENV variable accordingly to the configuration used for the kernel in the behat.yml.dist file, you will get an incorrect configuration because you will not load the variables defined in the .env.test file but only the .env file.

Take care to always run Behat with:

APP_ENV=test ./vendor/bin/behat

You can set it in once in behat.yaml

default:
    extensions:
        FriendsOfBehat\SymfonyExtension:
            # the "bootstrap" line is a fix for error: Environment variable not found: "DATABASE_URL".
            bootstrap: 'tests/bootstrap.php'
            kernel:
                environment: 'test'
                debug: true