Hello,
In the documentation about Runtime Context it's clearly stated how the context is getting populated from the various sources, however it's unclear how this context is getting populated when I use a Python CDK library explicitly without the CDK CLI. It seems in this case the context is not following what was described in the documentation, that's why I am getting an empty context after tryGetContext calls (for example even ~/.cdk.json is ignored). Having this caveat in mind I'd like to understand what options I have to be able to enrich the context without the CDK CLI helpers? Is there a way to distinguish between a state when my code runs as a sub-process of the CDK CLI and I can rely lets say on existing cdk.json context, or as a standalone application and in this case I have to load it myself in the code?
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I was able to identify only these three options:
CDK_CONTEXT_JSONenv. variable (context data might be huge to accommodate everything into one env. variable)CONTEXT_OVERFLOW_LOCATION_ENV(has recently been introduced and backported)setContextmethod