Reference to env vars sitting outside main config yml causes error

Error:

 Serverless Plugin Error --------------------------------------

  Cannot create property 'DYANMODB_TABLE' on string '${file(./serverless-env.yml):environment}'

configs:

serverless.yml

service: my-service

plugins:
  - serverless-dotenv-plugin

provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs8.10
  environment: ${file(./serverless-env.yml):environment}

serverless-env.yml

environment:
  SLS_AWS_STAGE: ${env:DYANMODB_TABLE, 'xxvvv'}

No errors when moving environment to outside the provider. Verified that it’s working perfectly when it’s located outside provider.

[RaydelMiranda]

You can read from https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/plugins/#plugins/:

Variable references in the serverless instance are not resolved before a Plugin’s constructor is called, so if you need these, make sure to wait to access those from your hooks.

In this case the method loadEnv is being called in the constructor of the plugin, causing the known issue since the references have not been resolved at that point.

[RaydelMiranda]

I agree. I will think some solution for this and let you know here.