ORA-01882: timezone region not found in Liquibase Gradle plugin - oracle

Question

In our project we are using Liquibase gradle plugin. Recently, we updated ojdbc8 plugin to version 18.3.0.0. Unfortunately, it caused our Liquibase task to fail with ORA-01882: timezone region not found. I found some solutions for this error (e.g. there: ORA-01882: timezone region not found), but I have no idea how I could add this -Duser.timezone or -Doracle.jdbc.timezoneAsRegion property to gradle task. I tried different approaches, but with no success.
This is how some crucial parts of our build.gradle look like:
liquibase {
activities {
oracle {
changeLogFile "$liquibasePath/db.changelog-master.xml"
driver liquibaseProps['oracle.driver']
url "jdbc:oracle:thin:#${liquibaseProps['oracle.ip.port']}:${liquibaseProps['oracle.schema']}"
username liquibaseProps['oracle.username']
password liquibaseProps['oracle.password']
outputDefaultSchema false
outputDefaultCatalog false
}
}
}
def generate(taskName, taskDescription, generateCommand) {
project.task(taskName, type: LiquibaseTask) {
group = 'Liquibase'
description = taskDescription
inputs.property('databases', getRunList())
inputs.dir liquibasePath
outputs.dir sqlScriptsPath
doLast {
new LiquibaseSqlCleanupTask(sqlScriptsPath).execute()
}
}
}

Answer 1

You need to set that as a system property when running gradle. The docs for that are at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html#sec:gradle_system_properties, but here is a copy/paste of the most relevant info:
Using the -D command-line option, you can pass a system property to
the JVM which runs Gradle. The -D option of the gradle command has the
same effect as the -D option of the java command.
You can also set system properties in gradle.properties files with the
prefix systemProp.
So you could create a gradle.properties file in the root directory of your project with contents like this:
systemProp.oracle.jdbc.timezoneAsRegion=false