How to set environment variables in Perl script to be available in BF?

1	Jirong Hu (1.5k●7●271●256) \| asked Sep 21 '12, 5:03 p.m. Hi I need a perl script to manipulate the variables before next step. In Step 1 I call a Perl script to set some system environment variables such as this: $ENV{'DIR'} = $DIR; but in the next step $DIR is empty. Thanks Jirong

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David Brauneis (506●1●1) | answered Sep 25 '12, 4:06 p.m.
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I think that setting environment variables in the context of the shell (which is what you are doing) will not be available to the next step, because it runs in a new shell instance.

I think that you could make it a BF_Environment Variable if you wanted to do that and use the BF Services Perl Client to set (or update the value) of it in your Perl script.

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Spencer Murata commented Oct 01 '12, 4:05 p.m.

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Check out .tset and .bset in the help to persist variables in Build Forge builds.

Jirong Hu commented Jun 26 '15, 10:03 a.m.

I wasn't made myself clear in the original post. This is what I did:

Step1 command: perl z:\Unix.pl SetEnvVar

The SetEnvVar() in Unix.pl will parse a long string and set each BF variable (I defined them in a BF environment attached to the BF project. This is the code: $ENV{"BANNER_H"} = $g_BANNER_H; I thought this will set system environment variable then available in BF too.

Step2, echo ${BANNER_H} is empty.

There are lots of variables, so don't want to use API to set one by one. What's wrong here?

Jirong Hu commented Jun 26 '15, 10:09 a.m.

With less variables, I can use the API to set each of them from perl code like this: $build->updateBuildEnvEntryValue($buildEnvEntryToUpdate->getUuid(), $app_path);

Then with more than 20 variables, it's a bit messy so want to use API to set only one long and well formatted string to BF, then try to parse there and again set individual variables to BF.

I am on Windows too.

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David Parrott (21●2●3) | answered Dec 12 '12, 7:06 a.m.

See also my suggestions in https://jazz.net/forum/questions/95865/import-a-variable-from-a-ksh-script, which elaborate on David's and Spencer's replies.

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Jojie Valiente commented Jul 23 '13, 11:58 p.m.

Hi David,

I'm running in Windows environment. Is there another solution?

Jojie

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Max Börebäck (16●1●2●2) | answered Aug 12 '13, 2:44 p.m.

If you have to set a large amount of environment varuables

Create a xml project file and load it

And in the step, make all the .bset commnds needed to set everything

I am using this method to load all the CELL variables via a perl api so I can extend the project dynamicaly with a perticular cell.

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