Hi all, wanted to quickly toot our (CircleCI’s) own horn about a new(-ish) orb command that should be very useful to any orb author:
This command, which now can take a comma-separated list of parameters to check, can basically be added at the beginning of any orb job or command that takes one or more env_var_name-type parameters. It will allow you to provide a failsafe for your users—so if they have forgotten or failed to define any required parameters/environment variables, they will get a helpful message about it.
You can see an example usage here:
Or here:
Typically, the command would be called with multiple parameter name values as specified in the description for the param parameter:
You can learn more about Orb Tools in the registry, as well: