[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Secure and Unsecure Plugin Configuration.

[lingutla123]

What is your question?

Hi Mike,

What is the data format accepted for 'Secure and Unsecure Configurations" fields in "Configure Deployment Settings - Plugin Steps" tab?

Currently we are using xml input format for secure and unsecure configs. It is working fine when we do manual deployment. However, when same code deployed through ALM and passing xml value is throwing index out of range exception.

Thank you.

What component are you experiencing the issue with?

ALM Accelerator Canvas App

What solution version are you using?

August 2023

AB#787

[mikefactorial]

@lingutla123 mind sharing a sample of what you are passing? Could be a bug but it's hard to tell without knowing the specific format of the XML

[mikefactorial]

@RajeevPentyala for awareness

[lingutla123]

Hi Mike,

Following example worked fine when directly deployed using plugin configuration tool . However, getting error with ALM accelerator pipeline.

Thank you!

[RajeevPentyala]

@lingutla123 Could not reproduce the issue. Tested with the XML you've provide. Can you provide the logs of failed pipeline for us to troubleshoot?

Configuration Settings:

Deploy Pipeline:

Plugin step post deployment from PRT:

[lingutla123]

Hi Rajeev,

Thank you for the response! We are also not facing issue while deploying/running the pipeline. We are getting error when we try to access these values in the plug in code.

My test code functionality and where we are getting error:
In the "plug In" code, accessing the config values and assigning to a text box. Text box is displaying the values entered if we use plug in registration tool. However, we are getting index out of range error ( for same code) when we deploy the plug in through ALM Pipeline.

[RajeevPentyala]

@lingutla123 Will check the scenario you mentioned.

[RajeevPentyala]

@lingutla123 Will check the scenario you mentioned.

@lingutla123 I went ahead tested the plug-in code by configuring 'Secured' and 'Unsecured' configs from 'ALM Accelerator' and my code worked well with no issues. Please find below plug-in trace log where I am reading and printing the 'Secured' and 'Unsecured' config values. I suspect you must have a custom logic to read and parse the 'Secured' and 'Unsecured' configs and not sure if the exception from that code.

Could you read and print the 'Secured' and 'Unsecured' configs in your plug-in code similar like below and let me know the outcome?

[lingutla123]

Thank you!

We have Base Plug In and Runner classes. We are retrieving config values entered in xml format and transforming to key value pairs. Code is working fine when we deploy plug in using "plug in registration tool". However, getting index out of range when deployed using ALM Accelerator pipeline. So, not sure where it is going wrong. Is there any deploy step logs we can if these values are read by pipeline or not?

[RajeevPentyala]

Thank you!

We have Base Plug In and Runner classes. We are retrieving config values entered in xml format and transforming to key value pairs. Code is working fine when we deploy plug in using "plug in registration tool". However, getting index out of range when deployed using ALM Accelerator pipeline. So, not sure where it is going wrong. Is there any deploy step logs we can if these values are read by pipeline or not?

@lingutla123 In your plugin, you can try printing the config values using ITracing Service before you proceed with your parse logic. Also, open the plugin step in 'Plugin Registration Tool' and check the secured and unsecured config values showing up properly.

[lingutla123]

Thank you!

Trace is not giving any values.

For dev environment, we are deploying through 'Plug in registration tool' and it is working. Same code deployed through QA Env using ALM pipeline. In QA env, when viewed 'PlugIn Registration Tool' it is showing as below screen shot. Do we expect to see the config values here ( which are passed through ALM pipeline)? If yes, why are they not coming up? What could be the step we are missing?

[RajeevPentyala]

Thank you!

Trace is not giving any values.

For dev environment, we are deploying through 'Plug in registration tool' and it is working. Same code deployed through QA Env using ALM pipeline. In QA env, when viewed 'PlugIn Registration Tool' it is showing as below screen shot. Do we expect to see the config values here ( which are passed through ALM pipeline)? If yes, why are they not coming up? What could be the step we are missing?

@lingutla123 The configuration values should have been present when you opened the plug-in step using the 'Plugin Registration Tool.' Could you please confirm if you have entries in the 'SDKMessages' node of the 'CustomDeploymentSettings.json' file, as highlighted below?

[lingutla123]

Hi Rajeev,

It is working.
Thank you!!

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