--dev-debug environment variable equivalent?

[kyle-blair]

The --dev-debug option is incredibly useful for investigating/debugging cli issues. Is there any way to enable it via an environment variable instead of a command option? An environment variable would be easier, particularly from a cicd perspective where you may not have direct control over the command options.

[cristiand391]

yep, we actually use --dev-debug as a way to dynamically set these env vars 😀 : https://github.com/salesforcecli/cli/blob/1374a627a2b68311c54736ae5b6765001b799978/src/flags.ts#L21

so sf config list --dev-debug is equal to running:

SF_LOG_LEVEL=trace DEBUG=* SF_DEBUG=1 SF_ENV=development sf config list

[kyle-blair]

Nice, thanks for the prompt response! I should've done a better job searching; I'm not sure how I missed this.

[kyle-blair]

Is there any documentation on the behavior of these variables? They aren't referenced much at all in salesforce/cli repo at least.

[kyle-blair]

Hmm, setting these causes my workflow (where I'm trying to debug) to fail. Happens randomly, early in the command call, and ironically with none of the output indicating anything unusual. Looks like while loading plugins. I'll do some more digging and open an issue if necessary.

[cristiand391]

Is there any documentation on the behavior of these variables? They aren't referenced much at all in salesforce/cli repo at least.

not much, SF_LOG_LEVEL comes from the sfdx-core library:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aforcedotcom%2Fsfdx-core%20%2FSF_LOG_LEVEL%2F&type=code

DEBUG I'm pretty sure it's being picked up by debug lib in oclif:
https://github.com/oclif/core/blob/ec07566d96fb96836cb1d6a0533bab0fba6febfc/src/logger.ts#L1

https://github.com/debug-js/debug#readme

for SF_DEBUG I can't find any references, may be a leftover from the old sfdx CLI as I don't see any diff with that var unset

SF_ENV is used in sf-plugins-core (CLI plugin's helper) to pretty-print errors:
https://github.com/search?q=org%3Asalesforcecli%20%2FSF_ENV%2F&type=code