Cloud Build inline yaml - escape character in variable name

My Spring app requires a variable named spring.cloud.gcp.sql.database-name to be set.

For other variables I have been able to use '--set-env-vars' and replace periods with underscores and all caps (e.g. for my.variable '--set-env-vars' _MY_VARIABLE=foo) but for hyphenated variable names this is failing.

How do I escape the hyphen in the variable name? (I'm doing this within the "Edit inline configuration" part)

I've tried DATABASE\-NAME but this didn't work

Solution

As stated in Binding From Environment Variables

To convert a property name in the canonical-form to an environment variable name you can follow these rules:

Replace dots (.) with underscores (_).
Remove any dashes (-).
Convert to uppercase.

For example, the configuration property spring.main.log-startup-info would be an environment variable named SPRING_MAIN_LOGSTARTUPINFO.

Also have a look at this link