How to pass environment variables in JSON

[bc-nikhil]

Please suggest how to pass environment variables in JSON.
The scenario is I want to pass credentials from Jenkins as an environment variables.

[santhoshTpixler]

WRT #248 you can access the System properties like ${SYSTEM.PROP:host}. But are you sure you want to use the environment variables?
We would be happy to know more about your requirement.

[vkjha2000]

@bc-nikhil , I would suggest please put some clarity(bit more details) around your question.

This will help everyone here and you might get an answer quicker(otherwise we keep on guessing your use-case and we might have to do a detective job here to get to the bottom of the issue).

Please visit this guidelines page(for how to raise an issue) :
https://github.com/authorjapps/zerocode/wiki/Guidelines-for-raising-issues

[bc-nikhil]

Hi, Thanks for your reply Currently, I am using credentials from properties file but I want to store these credentials in Jenkins job. So the problem is if I make these credentials as environment variables then how do I define them for auth token API in JSON file? As of now I am using credentials from properties So I defined in this manner in JSON: $web.application.user1.username $web.application.user1.password

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[santhoshTpixler]

@bc-nikhil At present, we do not have support for fetching the environment variables. Only system properties are supported. We will provide it soon.

[bc-mahesh]

We can pass system properties into scenario JSON definitions? Like can I use this -

web.username=SYSTEM.prop.username
web.password=SYSTEM.prop.password

The whole purpose of my question is that I don't want to hardcode the credentials in my JSON files, I need a way to pass those externally, so that anyone having access to the testing codebase won't see them.

[santhoshTpixler]

@bc-mahesh You can use ${SYSTEM.PROP:username} in you JSON which will be resolved to the System property username. But make sure you set the System property with -Dusername=myuser as an argument while running tests.

[authorjapps]

"${SYSTEM.ENV:USER}"

Available in version 1.3.12 and higher.