commit 4d124c4c4952d27cfd619beb899fee492dd5b1ac
from: ale <ale_bnes@tuta.com>
date: Wed Aug 19 03:46:58 2026 UTC

Load ASTROMETRY_API_KEY from a gitignored .env for local test runs

The live plate_solve round-trip test was always skipped in practice —
nothing set ASTROMETRY_API_KEY without manually exporting it by hand
each session. test/runtests.jl now reads a repo-root .env (gitignored;
.env.example documents the expected format) before the test suite runs,
without overriding a real environment variable if one's already set.
Not read by src/ itself — plate_solve takes api_key as an explicit
argument, this is test-only convenience.

Verified end to end: a real (intentionally invalid) key in .env made the
test stop skipping and actually hit the live service, which correctly
rejected it — confirms the loader, not just its parsing logic in
isolation.

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+++ .env.example
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Copy this file to .env (gitignored) and fill in real values.
+# test/runtests.jl loads .env automatically before running the tests.
+
+# nova.astrometry.net API key — get it from "My Profile" after signing in
+# at https://nova.astrometry.net/. Enables the live plate_solve round-trip
+# test; without it, that one test is skipped instead of run.
+ASTROMETRY_API_KEY=
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--- .gitignore
+++ .gitignore
@@ -31,3 +31,7 @@ docs/src/assets/iasc-match-radius-retuning.png
 # part of the project (the wiki documents the pipeline, not its own
 # deploy infrastructure).
 PAGES_NOTES.md
+
+# Real API keys for local test runs (e.g. ASTROMETRY_API_KEY) — see
+# .env.example for the expected format.
+.env
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--- test/runtests.jl
+++ test/runtests.jl
@@ -9,6 +9,25 @@ using Statistics
 using Reproject
 using Distributed
 
+# Loads .env (repo root, gitignored) into ENV for local test runs — e.g.
+# ASTROMETRY_API_KEY, which enables the live plate_solve round-trip test
+# below instead of skipping it. Real environment variables always win: a
+# line here is only applied if that key isn't already set. Not read by
+# src/ itself — plate_solve takes api_key as an explicit argument; this
+# is test-only convenience.
+let env_file = joinpath(pkgdir(AsteroidPipeline), ".env")
+    if isfile(env_file)
+        for line in eachline(env_file)
+            line = strip(line)
+            (isempty(line) || startswith(line, "#")) && continue
+            k, v = split(line, "="; limit=2)
+            k = strip(k)
+            v = strip(strip(v), ['"', '\''])
+            haskey(ENV, k) || (ENV[k] = v)
+        end
+    end
+end
+
 @testset "AsteroidPipeline.jl" begin
 
     @testset "detect_sources" begin