Hi Bengt,
the system.properties is not directly evaluate.
Could you try to define your variable in the custom.properties ?
Regards
JB
On 11/11/2011 03:51 PM, Bengt Rodehav wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Karaf 2.2.3. We're using Karaf+Camel as the basis for an
integration platform. We use config admin extensively in order to define
camel routes. As a convenience we define variables (in
system.properties) that can be used in the different configurations. E g
defining a "dataRoot" variable that the specifies a root directory in
the file system that routes can relate to.
If I, in system.properties specify the following:
dataRoot = D:/data
customer1Root = ${dataRoot}/customer1
Then the value of "customer1Root" will be "/customer1". The
"${dataRoot}" evaluates to an empty string. Why is that? If I instead
define "dataRoot" as a real system property (using the -D option to the
JVM) then it works.
In my configuration files (parsed by fileinstall) it works to use the
${...} notation to refer to variables in system.properties. What then
does not seem to work is if I in system.properties try to refer to
another variable defined in system.properties.
This seems like a bug to me.
I would also like to find out what the status is on the redesign of
system.properties. I would very much like the possibility to add my
specific variables outside of the Karaf installation. I already create a
custom distribution but the variables need to be added on a per
installation basis. The customer himself decides what convenience
variables are needed and I don't want the customer to fiddle with the
Karaf installation.
The functionality I'm looking for is something like this: Somewhere in
the Karaf configuration I would like to specify that Karaf should read
variable definitions from a file (or list of files) that I specify. I
can then separate my, installation specific, variables from the standard
Karaf installation. I have brought this up before and was under the
impression that something like this was in scope for Karaf 3 (or even
earlier). What is the status of this kind of customisation?
/Bengt
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