How to detect if a Serverless Framework function is running offline with serverless-offline?

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I am using python, and want to configure the database connection based on whether the function is running offline or deployed to AWS.

Some examples use the environment variable 'IS_OFFLINE', but it doesn't seem to be set.

Was that feature replaced with something else, or only available in the js runtime? What's the right way to detect whether a function is being run offline?

what programming language are you using? – André Oliveira May 23 '20 at 22:01 — André Oliveira, May 23 '20 at 22:01

Jason Mullings · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-09T05:05:57.613

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Try:

console.log(process.env.IS_OFFLINE)

https://www.serverless.com/plugins/serverless-offline#the-processenvis_offline-variable

For Python:

How to get environment from a subprocess?

edited Mar 09 '21 at 05:05

answered Mar 09 '21 at 05:00

Jason Mullings

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Perfect, thank you, just what I needed. – Paul A.T. Wilson Feb 07 '22 at 18:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '23 at 16:17

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For Python, you can access the IS_OFFLINE flag by using this: os.environ['IS_OFFLINE']

answered Jul 11 '23 at 16:17

Ju Li

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How to detect if a Serverless Framework function is running offline with serverless-offline?

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