Default value for *dagger.Socket

[limpid saffron]

Hi everyone, Is it possible to have a default value for a socket so I dont have to pass the argument everytime ? Ideally i'd want it defaulting to the env variable value for SSH_AUTH_SOCK

[hasty umbra]

hi, yes it's possible as well as specifying other things as well. User defaults is what you're looking for (https://github.com/dagger/dagger/pull/11034). Our apologies it's not properly documented yet 🙏

[limpid saffron]

Thanks @hasty umbra . is there any plan for supporting the env:// format for anything else than the secrets ?

[hasty umbra]

hey Julien! you mean passing env values as regular strings into your function via user-defaults?

[limpid saffron]

yeah ideally i want my default to be whatever my host env value is
BUILD_SSHSOCKET=env://SSH_AUTH_SOCK

it would be cleaner than dumping the plain value. this way if this ever changes i dont have to change my user defaults .env file

[hasty umbra]

I see.. do you mind opening an issue? Mostly want to make sure that enabling something like this for sockets won't open the door to something that shouldn't be allowed 🙏

[limpid saffron]

sure ! socket is just one example but any other type could benefit from it

[limpid saffron]

here we go @hasty umbra
https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/11581

[lilac wave]

I've been experimenting with .env files recently and found the following does seem to expand as expected in v0.19.8

BUILD_SSHSOCKET="unix:$SSH_AUTH_SOCK"

[hasty umbra]

nice! seems like it's alerady working. I didn't see that in the PR description so I assumed it wasn't working yet

[limpid saffron]

confirming this works on 0.19.8 (wasn't working on 0.19.7 )

[hasty umbra]

yep. Here's the PR: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/pull/11442

[limpid saffron]

i'll close the GH issue ! i should've updated before raising