Properties defined in HOME_DIR/.gradle/gradle.properties not passed to downstream tasks

[henryju]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the release plugin in combination with official publish-plugin (to publish plugin on Gradle plugin portal).

I put credentials in HOME_DIR/.gradle/gradle.properties and it is working fine when I do ./gradlew publishPlugins.
But when trying to have release + publish in one run (adding afterReleaseBuild.dependsOn publishPlugins) it fails saying that credentials are not defined:

./gradlew release
:release
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:createScmAdapter
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:initScmAdapter
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:checkCommitNeeded
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:checkUpdateNeeded
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:unSnapshotVersion
> Building 0% > :release > :gradle-sonarqube-plugin:confirmReleaseVersion
??> This release version: [1.1] 
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:confirmReleaseVersion
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:checkSnapshotDependencies
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:runBuildTasks
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:beforeReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:compileGroovy UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:processResources UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:classes UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:jar UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:groovydoc UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:publishPluginGroovyDocsJar UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:publishPluginJar UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:javadoc UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:publishPluginJavaDocsJar UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:assemble UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:licenseMain UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:licenseTest UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:license UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:compileTestJava UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:compileTestGroovy UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:processTestResources UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:testClasses UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:test UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:check UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:build UP-TO-DATE
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:publishPlugins
Publishing plugin org.sonarqube version 1.1
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:publishPlugins FAILED
:gradle-sonarqube-plugin:runBuildTasks FAILED
:release FAILED
Release process failed, reverting back any changes made by Release Plugin.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':publishPlugins'.
> Missing publishing keys. Please set gradle.publish.key and gradle.publish.secret system properties or login using the login task.

The only solution I found was to pass properties directly on command line:
./gradlew release -Dgradle.publish.key=xxxxx -Dgradle.publish.secret=yyyyy

[danez]

I will have a look soon.

[danez]

I do exactly the same here in the release plugin vor the bintray credentials and it works fine.
The release plugin is not doing anything special in terms of loading/reading properties. All the subprocesses are started as the same user you start the initial release process.
I found this, which makes me think that something is wrong with the publish plugin.
https://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-3281

Though I couldn't found the source of the plugin publish plugin to check what they are doing exactly.
But I asked in the forum: https://discuss.gradle.org/t/where-can-i-find-the-source-of-the-pluginpublishplugin/12607

[henryju]

You are right, I have added project local gradle.properties for the release plugin to work so this may be the cause of the issue. Thanks for the investigation!