[Bug]: Password aren't encrypted/decrypted as AES when use HOP_PASSWORD_ENCODER_PLUGIN=AES

[jaapandre]

Apache Hop version?

hop-client-2.6.0-20230912.091255

Java version?

11.0.20" 2023-07-18 LTS

Operating system

Windows

What happened?

Setting HOP_PASSWORD_ENCODER_PLUGIN=AES and adding HOP_AES_ENCODER_KEY=blablabla to hop-config.json passwords of new database connections are not encrypted as AES, password still starts with Encrypted. database connections is working correct. When creating an AES password with hop-encrypt and store in the databaseconnection json file, the authorization to the database server fails (it still expects an Encrypted password

HOP_PASSWORD_ENCODER_PLUGIN =AES is available in hop GUI:

Issue was also availble in 2.5

Issue Priority

Priority: 2

Issue Component

Component: Other

[mattcasters]

Yeah I think this is a documentation error. The part saying or in the hop-config.json file., is incorrect.
The two way password encoder is already selected when the config file is sourced. This is why the startup scripts pick up these variables from the operating system.