dotcloud/docker

package opts // import "github.com/docker/docker/opts"

import (
    "os"
    "strings"

    "github.com/pkg/errors"
)

// ValidateEnv validates an environment variable and returns it.
// If no value is specified, it obtains its value from the current environment
//
// As on ParseEnvFile and related to #16585, environment variable names
// are not validate whatsoever, it's up to application inside docker
// to validate them or not.
//
// The only validation here is to check if name is empty, per #25099
func ValidateEnv(val string) (string, error) {
    k, _, ok := strings.Cut(val, "=")
    if k == "" {
        return "", errors.New("invalid environment variable: " + val)
    }
    if ok {
        return val, nil
    }
    if envVal, ok := os.LookupEnv(k); ok {
        return k + "=" + envVal, nil
    }
    return val, nil
}