Authentication details from gradle.properties does not work

[phillipuniverse]

I tried with this in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties:

nexusUsername = 'user'
nexusPassword = 'password

As well as setting the properties on the project itself:

project.ext {
    nexusUsername = 'user'
    nexusPassword = 'password'
}

In both cases, I get a 401 Unauthorized when I invoke gradle uploadArchives. If I don't set any of those properties and let the plugin prompt me, everything gets uploaded fine.

I am using Gradle 1.10:

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Gradle 1.10
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Build time:   2013-12-17 09:28:15 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     36ced393628875ff15575fa03d16c1349ffe8bb6

Groovy:       1.8.6
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
Ivy:          2.2.0
JVM:          1.7.0_09 (Oracle Corporation 23.5-b02)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.9.1 x86_64

Thanks for the awesome plugin! Kudos for taking all of the weird-ish Maven tricks and throwing it all in one place!

[phillipuniverse]

Ah HA! Ok, this is my first exploration into Gradle, so forgive my noobie mistake. I just figured out that the properties in gradle.properties work differently than in normal Groovy code in the build script. They are treated like any other properties file (duh!).

So when I had this in gradle.properties:

nexusUsername = 'user'
nexusPassword = 'password'

Gradle treated that as the entire string "'user'" and "'password'", complete with quotes!

Removing the quotes fixed my problem:

nexusUsername = user
nexusPassword = password

Sorry again for the trouble. It is weird though that this didn't work:

project.ext {
    nexusUsername = 'user'
    nexusPassword = 'password'
}

Because it's in the build script I would think that it would treat that like a String and remove the quotes for me. I guess not. Doesn't really matter, I needed it to be in a gradle.properties file anyway.

[bmuschko]

It kind of depends on where you define the properties in your build script. Might just be an evaluation order problem.