Maven 2 & 3

Environment variables in profile activation not working

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0.4, 2.0.5
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0.9
  • Component/s: Profiles
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    Windows XP Professional, JDK 1.5
  • Complexity:
    Intermediate
  • Number of attachments :
    1

Description

When using an environment variable as a profile activation variable, it doesnt work, using either env.X or $

{env.X}

doesnt work.
I found the same issue on the forums unresolved.

http://www.nabble.com/profile-activation-based-on-environment-variables-tf2585492s177.html#a7208580

Basically, the following doesnt work, where FOO is a windows environment variable (like PATH for example) :

 
 <profile>
  <id>haroon-workstation</id>
  <activation>
    <property>
      <name>env.FOO</name>
      <value>foo</value>
    </property>
   </activation>
    .......

 </profile>
  1. Text File
    MNG-2848.patch
    04/Jan/08 12:03 PM
    5 kB
    Richard van der Hoff

Issue Links

is related to

New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. MNG-1753 support improved property based profile activation

  • Major - Major loss of function.
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k added a comment - - edited

Has there been any resolution to this issue? I am currently also trying to access environment variables from within <profile> (be it within profiles.xml and pom.xml) with no success. Outside of <profile>, I can access environment variables just fine, but within <profile>, using the environment variable as an activation property, does not seem to work.

I've been unsuccessful trying to access the variable using the following methods within <profile>:
env.FOO
FOO
$

{env.FOO}

$

{FOO}

Any information reguarding this issue would be greatly appreciated... especially since this has been an issue for well over a year now (referring to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2276 ).

Defining the variable via the commandline interface does work however, as stated in the link above.

Btw, my version of maven is 2.0.7

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k added a comment - - edited Has there been any resolution to this issue? I am currently also trying to access environment variables from within <profile> (be it within profiles.xml and pom.xml) with no success. Outside of <profile>, I can access environment variables just fine, but within <profile>, using the environment variable as an activation property, does not seem to work. I've been unsuccessful trying to access the variable using the following methods within <profile>: env.FOO FOO $ {env.FOO} $ {FOO} Any information reguarding this issue would be greatly appreciated... especially since this has been an issue for well over a year now (referring to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2276 ). Defining the variable via the commandline interface does work however, as stated in the link above. Btw, my version of maven is 2.0.7
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Richard van der Hoff added a comment -

Here's a patch, against maven-core 2.0.8, which makes profile activation via environment variables work.

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Richard van der Hoff added a comment - Here's a patch, against maven-core 2.0.8, which makes profile activation via environment variables work.
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Vincent Siveton added a comment -

Patch applied in r609944. Thanks!

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Vincent Siveton added a comment - Patch applied in r609944. Thanks!
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Richard van der Hoff added a comment -

Oops, this seems to have broken property passing in mvn exec:java - see MEXEC-41

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Richard van der Hoff added a comment - Oops, this seems to have broken property passing in mvn exec:java - see MEXEC-41
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Vincent Siveton added a comment -

To reinvestigate due to Richard's comment

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Vincent Siveton added a comment - To reinvestigate due to Richard's comment
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Brian Fox added a comment -

vincent: any way to get this for 2.0.9 this week?

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Brian Fox added a comment - vincent: any way to get this for 2.0.9 this week?
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John Casey added a comment -

Looks like the system-property-setting has been reinstated, and the execution properties are still setup and used internally as specified in the patch. This is probably the best we can expect for now, unless/until we find a way to control the way plugins use (and more importantly, pass on to their delegates) the system properties.

I'm closing this issue. We can open a new one later if we need to fine-tune this behavior further.

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John Casey added a comment - Looks like the system-property-setting has been reinstated, and the execution properties are still setup and used internally as specified in the patch. This is probably the best we can expect for now, unless/until we find a way to control the way plugins use (and more importantly, pass on to their delegates) the system properties. I'm closing this issue. We can open a new one later if we need to fine-tune this behavior further.
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Richard van der Hoff added a comment -

Yes, agreed that this seems the most sensible approach for now.

Thanks for sorting this, guys.

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Richard van der Hoff added a comment - Yes, agreed that this seems the most sensible approach for now. Thanks for sorting this, guys.

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  • Assignee:
    John Casey
    Reporter:
    Muhammad Yahia
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