Environment variables file doesn't work with start-api

[pcx]

My template.yaml looks like this:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion : '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31

Resources:
  TestFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      Handler: test.handler
      Runtime: nodejs8.10
      Events:
        GetSyncObject:
          Type: Api
          Properties:
            Path: /test
            Method: get

The env.json looks like this:

{
    "TestFunction": {
        "ENV_NAME": "development",
        "DATABASE_URL": "http://dynamodb:8000/"
    }
}

The test.js file looks like this:

module.exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
  console.log(process.env);
};

I am running the command as:
sam local start-api --env-vars env.json

The out put in the terminal does not show the env vars from the file specified above. I am using OSX and [email protected].

[sanathkr]

You need to define the Environment section in the Function for the envars to show up during execution. Only the variables in the Environment section will be read from the file and show up in the execution

[pcx]

@sanathkr This was not immediately apparent from the README. Thanks for clearing that up!