How to use the App Environment SDK in functions?

[thomas_c]

Hi Team,

I need to retrieve and use the environment's URL in a Dashboard/Notebook function.

The docs seems lacking the info on which SDK to import. I tried the following but get an error:

Could you please guide me on using that SDK?

Thanks,

Thomas

[stefan_eggersto · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas,

@dynatrace-sdk/app-environment can only be used in apps and is not available for ad-hoc functions.

As an alternative, you can use globalThis.environmentUrl to access the environment URL.

[thomas_c]

Thanks Stefan! That works great in ad-hoc functions too.

Just to close the loop, is there a way to use such globalThis properties in a dashboard's markdown tile? Just like we can do via a dashboard variable.

[MarwanC]

Can you kindly let me know how extract the incoming header and the body as I need to process those to do other stuff in the app function?  can I use globalThis.? where is the documentation can be found of globalThis.x Thanks in advance for your support

[MarwanC]

Dear Stefan, Can you kindly let me know how extract the incoming header and the body as I need to process those to do other stuff in the app function?  can I use globalThis.? where is the documentation can be found of globalThis.x Thanks in advance for your support

[MarwanC]

I also see that 

globalThis.environmentUrl  is marked as depricated and they advise to use this code, hope this is helpful to everyone:  

import { getEnvironmentId } from '@dynatrace-sdk/app-environment';

export default async function (payload: unknown = undefined) {

  // Get the current environment ID

  const environmentId = getEnvironmentId();

  return environmentId;

}

[MarwanC]

import { getEnvironmentUrl } from '@dynatrace-sdk/app-environment';

export default async function (payload: unknown = undefined) {

  // Get the current environment URL

  const environmentUrl = getEnvironmentUrl();

  return environmentUrl;

}

If the URL is required use the above