Switching to environments does not replace variables values

[pgi-jsanchez]

Greetings Matt.

According to tests with Pentaho 8.1 using spoon and after configured two environments, if both has the same variable but not the same value, the value it is not replaced at switching from one environment from another. Might be a bug, but will be really useful for future projects that requires several environments.

[mattcasters]

Is this in a transformation or a job? The thing is, Environment will only change system variables, not the ones from loaded transformations and jobs.
I'm preparing to release #10 which closes all transformations/jobs of an Environment and opens the last session of another. You're not supposed to use the same transformation file in different environments.

[pgi-jsanchez]

I test it with a transformation, even with a new transformation and didn't changed the variables after changed the environment, but it's a use case, that the same transformation or job works for different environments, with some changes in the values, not only for testing, also for different customers that uses similar or the same datasets and the same pipeline works for them.
Even if it's only with the system variables, worked just fine if I restart Pentaho and run the same transformation but switched the environment before open and execute the transformation.

[mattcasters]

I ran my own tests and you're right, I was wrong. I think Spoon is also keeping some variables around. I'll look around.

[mattcasters]

Should be fixed now, give it a try. Thanks for the feedback!