Environmental variables are not detected by Prisma

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I have a problem with schema.prisma data source, in which URL is supposed to be fetched from the environmental variable by line env("DATABASE_URL"), but “Error validating datasource db: the URL must start with the protocol 'mysql://'.” is thrown instead.

I have set DATABASE_URL in the deployment options on app.netlify to value "mysql://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST/DB_NAME?sslaccept=strict" (including the "). This value is 100% correct because if I paste it directly, it works fine. Moreover, the following code fixes my issue:

const client = globalThis.prisma || new PrismaClient({ datasources: { db: { url: process.env._DATABASE_URL.substring(1, process.env.DATABASE_URL.length - 1) } } });

In the function logs, I can see:

prisma:tryLoadEnv  Environment variables not found at /var/task/node_modules/.prisma/client/..\..\..\.env
prisma:tryLoadEnv  Environment variables not found at /var/task/node_modules/.prisma/client/..\..\..\.env
prisma:tryLoadEnv  No Environment variables loaded

Clearly, prisma is not detecting environmental variables in its env function. How can I fix this problem?

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Do you mean to say you have set the value in the Netlify UI? If so, there is no need to wrap the value in quotes ("). This would explain why stripping the first and last character using substring renders the correct value.

3

Thank you, the proposed solution has worked out well for me.