envro 0.11.0

# Envro

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Env vars for Rust: validate with a composable rule set, load `.env` into `std::env`, and optionally derive a typed `Config`.

## Features

- **Validate** env vars against a `Schema` of composable rules — works on any `HashMap`, a `.env` file, or the live process environment
- **Load** a `.env` into the process with an explicit override policy, or **parse** it to a map with no side effects
- **Derive** a typed `Config` with `#[derive(Envro)]` — field types are coerce targets; `#[envro(...)]` attrs are the rules; values still load at runtime
- **Compose** derived values with `${VAR}` substitution, then validate each part
- **Small `.env` dialect** — comments, quotes, multiline, duplicate keys rejected

## Getting started

```bash
cargo add envro
```

### Typed app config

Typical service setup: optional `.env` for local dev, then validate and coerce the process environment into a struct.

```rust
use std::env;
use envro::{load_dotenv_in_env_vars, Envro, EnvroConfig, EnvroError};

#[derive(Envro, Debug)]
struct Config {
    #[envro(from = "APP_NAME", min_len = 1, max_len = 64)]
    app_name: String,

    #[envro(from = "APP_PORT", port)]
    app_port: u16,

    #[envro(from = "DATABASE_URL", min_len = 1, starts_with = "postgres://")]
    database_url: String,

    #[envro(from = "DB_POOL_SIZE", positive_integer)]
    db_pool_size: i64,

    #[envro(from = "LOG_LEVEL", one_of("debug", "info", "warn", "error"))]
    log_level: String,

    #[envro(from = "FEATURE_METRICS", boolean)]
    feature_metrics: bool,
}

fn main() -> Result<(), EnvroError> {
    let env_file = env::current_dir()?.join(".env");
    if env_file.is_file() {
        load_dotenv_in_env_vars(&env_file, false)?;
    }

    let config = Config::from_env()?;
    println!("{config:?}");
    Ok(())
}
```

On failure, `EnvroError::Validation` lists every failing rule:

```rust
// example/src/bin/getting_started_error.rs — cargo run --bin getting_started_error
match Config::from_dotenv(&env_file) {
    Ok(config) => println!("{config:?}"),
    Err(err) => eprintln!("{err}"),
    // VALIDATION_ERROR APP_NAME[required]: ...; APP_PORT[port]: 70000 not in 1..=65535; ...
}
```

### Real-world: CD / process env

In CI/CD and containers you get flat process env vars — not `.env` substitution. Validate each knob, then compose derived values in Rust:

```rust
use envro::{Envro, EnvroConfig};

#[derive(Envro, Debug)]
struct Config {
    #[envro(from = "PG_USER", min_len = 1, max_len = 63, alphanumeric)]
    pg_user: String,

    #[envro(from = "PG_PASS", min_len = 6)]
    pg_pass: String,

    #[envro(from = "PG_HOST", min_len = 1, max_len = 253)]
    pg_host: String,

    #[envro(from = "PG_PORT", port)]
    pg_port: u16,

    #[envro(from = "PG_DB", min_len = 1, alphanumeric)]
    pg_db: String,

    #[envro(from = "PG_SSLMODE", one_of("disable", "require", "verify-full"))]
    pg_sslmode: String,

    #[envro(from = "DB_POOL_SIZE", positive_integer)]
    db_pool_size: i64,
}

impl Config {
    fn database_uri(&self) -> String {
        format!(
            "pg://{}:{}@{}:{}/{}?sslmode={}",
            self.pg_user, self.pg_pass, self.pg_host, self.pg_port, self.pg_db, self.pg_sslmode
        )
    }
}

fn main() -> Result<(), envro::EnvroError> {
    // optional local .env — skipped in CD when vars are already injected
    let env_file = std::env::current_dir()?.join(".env");
    if env_file.is_file() {
        envro::load_dotenv_in_env_vars(&env_file, false)?;
    }

    let config = Config::from_env()?;
    println!("{}", config.database_uri());
    Ok(())
}
```

Runnable version: `cd example && cargo run --bin example`.

`${VAR}` expansion is a `.env`-file feature only — see [docs/dotenv-format.md](docs/dotenv-format.md).

### Without derive

Same rules as a hand-written `Schema` when you only need validation (maps, tests, no struct):

```rust
use envro::*;

let schema = Schema::new()
    .field("APP_PORT", Field::required().port())
    .field("LOG_LEVEL", Field::required().one_of(&["debug", "info", "warn", "error"]));

validate_env(&schema)?;
// or: load_dotenv_validated(&path, &schema)?;  validate(&vars, &schema)?;
```

## Documentation

| Doc | Contents |
| --- | --- |
| [docs/api.md](docs/api.md) | Public **APIs and types** (functions, `Schema` / `Field`, derive) |
| [docs/validation.md](docs/validation.md) | Rule reference, semantics, error inspection |
| [docs/dotenv-format.md](docs/dotenv-format.md) | `.env` dialect, `${VAR}` substitution, valid/invalid rows |
| [docs/comparison.md](docs/comparison.md) | Comparison with dotenvy, dotenv-ng, and related crates |
| [docs.rs/envro](https://docs.rs/envro) | Generated rustdoc |

## Out of scope

- **No multi-file layering** — one path per call ([CUE on inheritance](https://cuelang.org/docs/concept/configuration-use-case/#inheritance-based-configuration-languages), [Angular LIFT Flat](https://angular.io/guide/styleguide#flat))
- **No macros that bake env values into the binary** — `#[derive(Envro)]` encodes types and rules only; values always load at runtime

## TODO

- optional, default values
- encryption

## License

[MIT](LICENSE) © 2024-2026 Simone Sanfratello