Process command line arguments in go test

September 22, 2023 by Tarik

Environmental configs are best kept in environment variables, in my experience. You can rely on global variables like so:

var envSetting = os.Getenv("TEST_ENV")

Alternatively, if using flags is a requirement, you could place your initialization code inside a function called init().

func init() {
    flags.Parse()
    myEnv = *envFlag
    // ...
}