[Anthill-pro] Help with environment variables and properties

[Baker, Andrew]

I did send this to the support team, but thought I would post it here as
well in case anyone else either can help or can benefit.

 

 

I am having some issues with properties.

 

I need to be able to prompt for a "platform" variable at the start of a
run (or insert it into a URL to kick off a build).  This platform is
used to provide different compile options to a build script.  

 

Our existing build script runs the configuration steps when the
following command is executed:

MD_PLATFORM=linux72 ./buildscript.sh config

 

 

I am trying to replicate this in AntHill3 using the following scenario,
which is failing.

 

A) The Property WF_PLATFORM is a property put on the WorkFlow which has
a default of linux72.  

 

Step - Shell

MD_PLATFORM=${property:WF_PLATFORM} ./ buildscript.sh config

 

output

command line: MD_PLATFORM=linux72 ./ buildscript.sh config
command work dir:
/home/build/anthillpro-agent/var/jobs/projects/PROJECT/PROJECT/project
command environment: 

log

70773439 ERROR com.urbancode.shell.Shell - java.io.IOException:
MD_PLATFORM=linux72: not found
java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: MD_PLATFORM=linux72: not found

 

 

B) If I define this in the Environment vars, it appears unexpanded in
the output.log

command environment: 
MD_PLATFORM=${property:WF_PLATFORM}

 

 

C) My preference would be to set the MD_PLATFORM=${property:WF_PLATFORM}
variable at the beginning of the workflow and have it available for each
step.  When I put this in the Environment vars section it does not
expand the property into its value as seen above in the output.

 

 

D) Long term I need to be able to iterate through a number of
"platforms" kicking off the build for each of them, so I will have the
following, preferably in parallel.

Checkin

            Set platform = abc

            Run workflow

            Set platform = xyz

            Run workflow

            Set platform = 123

            Run workflow

            Set platform = 789

            Run workflow

Can you explain how I would do this?

 

Thanks

Andrew

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