Reading settings from a Azure Function

Question

I'm new to Azure's function... I've created a new timer function (will be fired every 30 minutes) and it has to perform a query on a URL, then push data on the buffer..

I've done

public static void Run(TimerInfo myTimer, TraceWriter log)
{


 var s = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("url");

 log.Info(s);

}

And in my function settings I've

What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

You can use System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable like this:

var value = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("your_key_here")

This gets settings whenever you're working locally or on Azure.

Answer 2

Note that for Azure Functions v2 this is no longer true. The following is from Jon Gallant's blog:

For Azure Functions v2, the ConfigurationManager is not supported and you must use the ASP.NET Core Configuration system:

1. Include the following using statement:

   using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
   

2. Include the ExecutionContext as a parameter

   public static void Run(InboundMessage inboundMessage, 
       TraceWriter log,
       out string outboundMessage, 
       ExecutionContext context)
   

3. Get the IConfiguration Root

   var config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
       .SetBasePath(context.FunctionAppDirectory)
       .AddJsonFile("local.settings.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true)
       .AddEnvironmentVariables()
       .Build();
   

4. And use it to reference AppSettings keys

   var password = config["password"]
   

When debugging locally, it gets the settings from local.settings.json under the "Values" keyword. When running in Azure, it gets the settings from the Application settings tab.

Answer 3

You need to go to Platform Features -> Application settings and add it there.

Add the setting under App settings.

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Reading the setting can be done by first adding this at the top:

using System.Configuration;

And then reading a setting with:

string setting = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["url"];

Where url is your setting key. The setting variable will contain your setting value.

Answer 4

Recommended way — use environment variable to read settings

string Secret = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("Secret");

This works perfect if you run from your local PC or from Azure Functions using C#