Support custom env vars for plugin SpinWicks

[calebroseland]

Summary

Plugin SpinWicks silently discarded environment variables — createPluginSpinWick and updatePluginSpinWick passed nil to the installation request, marked // no env vars for plugins.

The /spinwick slash command that collects env vars has no repo-type gate, so plugin repos could already set them via PR comment. The values were parsed, stored in s.envMaps, and then dropped at these two call sites with no feedback that they'd been ignored.

• server/spinwick.go — pass the already-in-scope envVars at both plugin call sites.
• Create path — envVars goes to createInstallationRequest, which sets PriorityEnv only when non-empty. No restart needed.
• Update path — new applyPluginSpinWickEnv patches PriorityEnv and waits for the installation to become stable before the plugin is reinstalled, so the restart doesn't race the install.
• envVarNames logs variable names only, never values.

Usage

/spinwick create -env MM_FEATUREFLAGS_ENABLEDOCS=true,MM_SERVICESETTINGS_ENABLEDEVELOPER=true

/spinwick update -env MM_FEATUREFLAGS_ENABLEDOCS=true,MM_LOGSETTINGS_ENABLEDEBUG=true

/spinwick update -clear-env MM_LOGSETTINGS_ENABLEDEBUG,MM_FEATUREFLAGS_ENABLEDOCS

Existing constraints worth knowing, all enforced by the current parser:

1. The command must be the entire comment — the whole body is split on whitespace, so trailing prose breaks flag.Parse.
2. Values cannot contain commas (parseEnvArg splits on comma first); = inside a value is fine.
3. -size is ignored for plugin repos (createPluginSpinWick hardcodes miniSingleton), yet -size miniHA still applies the HA label. Pre-existing mismatch, not touched here.
4. Create doesn't provision directly — it stores the env map and adds the Setup Cloud Test Server label.

Ticket Link

https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-70421

Shared with mattermost-plugin-docs#20 — both PRs are halves of making the Setup Cloud Test Server label work on the Docs plugin.

Test plan

• go build, go vet, gofmt clean on all touched files
• Full go test ./server/... suite passes
• Unit tests for envVarNames, including one asserting values never reach log output
• Live: /spinwick create -env ... on a plugin PR, confirm PriorityEnv lands
• Live: /spinwick update -env ... on an existing plugin SpinWick — this exercises the 600s stable wait, the riskier path

applyPluginSpinWickEnv is not unit-tested: spinwick_plugin_test.go is entirely pure-function tests with no CloudClient mock, and adding a mocking layer for one function seemed out of proportion. Flagging in case a reviewer disagrees.

Release Note

NONE

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SpinWick creation and update handlers now receive environment variables. Creation sends them to installation requests. Updates patch them before reinstallation and wait for stabilization. Logging records sorted variable names without secret values.

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SpinWick environment variable support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Environment variable propagation and creation server/spinwick.go, server/spinwick_plugin.go, server/spinwick_plugin_test.go	Creation forwards envVars to createPluginSpinWick, which passes them to installation creation. Tests cover sorted names and value omission.
Environment variable update and stabilization server/spinwick.go, server/spinwick_plugin.go	Updates forward envVars, patch installation variables, select local-testing polling when configured, and report patch or stabilization errors.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0c58d

The update path can retain previously configured plugin environment variables when a user removes the last remaining variable, so the documented clear behavior can leave stale runtime configuration active. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SpinWick
  participant createPluginSpinWick
  participant updatePluginSpinWick
  participant MattermostCloudInstallationAPI

  SpinWick->>createPluginSpinWick: Forward envVars
  createPluginSpinWick->>MattermostCloudInstallationAPI: Create installation with envVars
  MattermostCloudInstallationAPI-->>createPluginSpinWick: Return installation result

  SpinWick->>updatePluginSpinWick: Forward envVars
  updatePluginSpinWick->>MattermostCloudInstallationAPI: Patch installation environment variables
  MattermostCloudInstallationAPI-->>updatePluginSpinWick: Return stabilization status
  updatePluginSpinWick->>MattermostCloudInstallationAPI: Reinstall plugin
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|         Title check        | ✅ Passed | The title clearly identifies the main change: support for custom environment variables in plugin SpinWicks.                                              |
|      Description check     | ✅ Passed | The description directly explains the environment-variable changes, creation and update flows, logging safeguards, testing, and pending live validation. |
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Inline comments:
In `@server/spinwick_plugin.go`:
- Around line 305-309: Update the environment-variable handling around
applyPluginSpinWickEnv so an empty envVars map clears existing PriorityEnv
values during an update instead of skipping the update. Preserve the distinction
between an explicitly empty map, which must clear the configuration, and an
absent map if that state is supported; use the existing UpdateInstallation path
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