Setting environment variable does not work

[mochenyang]

I'm trying to deploy a shiny app to Shinyapps.io using rsconnect-python and the following command:

rsconnect deploy shiny path/to/my/app --name my-acount-name --title my-app-name --environment OPENAI_API_KEY='my key'

Here, path/to/my/app is the directory that contains (1) an app.py script that makes use of OPENAI_API_KEY to call GPT models and (2) a requirements.txt file containing the dependency. Locally, everything runs correctly. But when I push to Shinyapps.io, the app does not work with error message telling me that the OpenAI api key has not been set.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

[aronatkins]

This repository is tracking the rsconnect R package. The rsconnect-python Python package is in the https://github.com/posit-dev/rsconnect-python repository.

That said, shinyapps.io does not support environment variables.

Related issues:

• https://github.com/posit-dev/rsconnect-python/issues/531
• https://github.com/posit-dev/rsconnect-python/issues/437
• https://github.com/posit-dev/rsconnect-python/issues/439