Re: [gradle-user] Gradle easy access to environment variables

[Adam Murdoch]

Les Hazlewood wrote: Obviously, one can put this at the top of their .gradle script and get what I wanted: env = System.getenv() I'm not sure if that should be 'built in' as a convenience or not.  What do you think?  Should every user be expected to define that line if they want access to env vars? Adding it to the Gradle API doesn't really seem worth the cost to me. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Les Hazlewood <les.hazlew...@anjinllc.com> wrote: Beautiful, thanks :)  I just didn't know if there was an alias for System.getenv() already built in to Gradle.  This would be kinda nice to do out of the box: env['JAVA_HOME'] Do you think this is a good idea?  Should I open a Jira issue for an improvement if so? On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, D'Arcy, Hamlet B <hamlet.da...@pearson.com> wrote: I think you'd use the standard Groovy way, right? println System.getenv()['JAVA_HOME'] Should work within the script. It works in mine. -- Hamlet D'Arcy hamlet.da...@pearson.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Les Hazlewood [mailto:les.hazlew...@anjinllc.com] > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 11:58 AM > To: user@gradle.codehaus.org > Subject: [gradle-user] Gradle easy access to environment variables > > It is not readily apparent to me in the User Guide (Section > 4.3) how to quickly reference environment variables in Gradle scripts. > > I do not want to create environment variables > ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_propName since I'm trying to support an > existing build where environment variables are already set on > many machines. > > So far, I found I can do the following: > > createTask("init", overwrite: true) { task -> >    ant.property(environment: "env"); >    println ant.antProject.properties["env.MY_ENV_VAR"] > } > > However, that seems a little hacky.  I was assuming that > there was a nicer way to do this in Gradle automatically, for > example, envProps.MY_ENV_VAR. > > Can someone please clarify? > > Thanks, > > Les > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit:    http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email