write a script to get the VCAP value

README.md

@@ -514,12 +514,6 @@ At some point, E2E tests will fail because the secrets held in VCAP_SERVICES hav
 them, you will need to do the following:
 
 1. Log in the normal way to access cloudfoundry command line options
-2. Run `cf env notify-admin-staging`
+2. In your terminal, run `chmod +x print_vcap.sh`
-3. Copy everything for the json in VCAP_SERVICES
+3. In your terminal, run `./print_vcap.sh`
-4. Open a test file and make a new test anywhere that is convenient
+4. Copy the value in your terminal and paste it into the VCAP_SERVICES secret in Github on the staging tier.
-5. Paste the secret into the test file
-6. Make your test look like this:  `print(json.dumps(VCAP_SERVICES))`
-7. Copy the output of this test (stringified VCAP_SERVICES) into the VCAP_SERVICES secret in github on the staging tier
-8. Delete everything you did in #4, #5, and #6.
-9. Rerun the E2E tests
-10. Note: Pay attention to whitespace, etc.  It's very sensitive to formatting.

print_vcap.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+STAGING_APP_NAME="notify-admin-staging"
+
+# Fetch the environment variables of the staging app
+env_var_value=$(cf env "$STAGING_APP_NAME" | awk '/'"VCAP_SERVICES"':/,/^}/')
+
+
+# Check if the environment variable was found"
+if [ -z "$env_var_value" ]; then
+  echo "Environment variable VCAP_SERVICES not found in the staging environment"
+else
+  env_var_json=$(echo "$env_var_value" | sed '1s/^[^:]*: //' | tr -d '\n')
+  stringified_value=$(python3 -c "import json, sys; print(json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read())))" <<< "$env_var_json")
+  echo "VCAP_SERVICES:"
+  echo "$stringified_value"
+fi