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Ankit Kothari (136●16●16) | asked Jul 28 '11, 10:30 a.m.
Hi,

I have 2 environment variables, USERNAME and PASSWORD, which would be used in my Build File. Variable "PASSWORD" is hidden.
I am trying to invoke an ANT build file from Build Forge. But, I want to use username and password inside the ANT file. But, at the same time, I do not want to disclose the password.

I invoke the build file like this: <Something> build.xml
-Dpassword=${PASSWORD} -Dusername=${USERNAME}

But, since the field "PASSWORD" is declared as hidden, build forge does not pass the value of the PASSWORD.

Please let me know how I can achieve this.

Thanks
Ankit

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Brent Ulbricht (2.5k●1●1) | answered Jul 28 '11, 2:12 p.m.
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Hi,

I have 2 environment variables, USERNAME and PASSWORD, which would be used in my Build File. Variable "PASSWORD" is hidden.
I am trying to invoke an ANT build file from Build Forge. But, I want to use username and password inside the ANT file. But, at the same time, I do not want to disclose the password.

I invoke the build file like this: <Something> build.xml
-Dpassword=${PASSWORD} -Dusername=${USERNAME}

But, since the field "PASSWORD" is declared as hidden, build forge does not pass the value of the PASSWORD.

Please let me know how I can achieve this.

Thanks
Ankit


Hi,

I would recommend to not use the -D properties to pass the variables, but rather use the Ant environment inside your build xml to get at the variables. For example, you could have some code like below. 




<?xml version="1.0"?>                     



<project default="compile" basedir=".">

    

  <property environment="env"/>



  <target name="compile">

    <echo message="******* ${env.ANT_USERNAME} ********${line.separator}" file="password_test.txt" append="false"/>

    <echo message="******* ${env.ANT_PASSWORD} ********${line.separator}" file="password_test.txt" append="true"/>

  </target>

  

</project>


The ant execution would just be 'ant -f build.xml' .

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead
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Ankit Kothari (136●16●16) | answered Jul 28 '11, 4:21 p.m.
Hi,

I have 2 environment variables, USERNAME and PASSWORD, which would be used in my Build File. Variable "PASSWORD" is hidden.
I am trying to invoke an ANT build file from Build Forge. But, I want to use username and password inside the ANT file. But, at the same time, I do not want to disclose the password.

I invoke the build file like this: <Something> build.xml
-Dpassword=${PASSWORD} -Dusername=${USERNAME}

But, since the field "PASSWORD" is declared as hidden, build forge does not pass the value of the PASSWORD.

Please let me know how I can achieve this.

Thanks
Ankit


Hi,

I would recommend to not use the -D properties to pass the variables, but rather use the Ant environment inside your build xml to get at the variables. For example, you could have some code like below. 




<xml>                     



<project>

    

  <property>



  <target>

    <echo>

    <echo>

  </target>

  

</project>


The ant execution would just be 'ant -f build.xml' .

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead

Oh cool.. This sounds very simple.. So, it will take the environment variable declared in Build Forge?

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