Gradle Artifactory deploy fails when using generated gradle.properties - gradle

Question

I have the following build.gradle file:
plugins {
id 'java-gradle-plugin'
id 'com.gradle.plugin-publish' version '0.10.1'
id 'groovy'
id 'maven-publish'
id "com.jfrog.artifactory" version "4.9.1"
}
group = 'de.gafertp'
version = '2.0.0'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile 'net.sourceforge.plantuml:plantuml:1.2019.1'
testCompile 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.4.0'
testCompile 'org.junit-pioneer:junit-pioneer:0.3.0'
testRuntime 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.4.0'
}
gradlePlugin {
plugins {
plantUmlPlugin {
id = 'de.gafertp.plantuml'
displayName = 'Gradle PlantUML Plugin'
description = 'A very simple plugin to render PlantUML files. ' +
'Takes a set of diagram files together with desired output files / formats ' +
'and renders them with PlantUML (http://plantuml.com/).'
implementationClass = 'de.gafertp.PlantUmlPlugin'
}
}
}
pluginBundle {
website = 'https://github.com/codecholeric/gradle-plantuml-plugin'
vcsUrl = 'https://github.com/codecholeric/gradle-plantuml-plugin'
tags = ['plantuml']
}
publishing {
publications {
plantUmlPluginJar(MavenPublication) {
from components.java
}
}
}
artifactory {
contextUrl = "${artifactory_contextUrl}"
publish {
repository {
repoKey = 'gradle-dev-local'
username = "${artifactory_user}"
password = "${artifactory_password}"
println "username=${artifactory_user}"
println "password=${artifactory_password}"
maven = true
}
defaults {
publications('plantUmlPluginJar')
}
}
resolve {
repository {
repoKey = 'gradle-dev'
username = "${artifactory_user}"
password = "${artifactory_password}"
maven = true
}
}
}
test {
useJUnitPlatform()
}
And this gradle.properties file:
artifactory_user=${security.getCurrentUsername()}
artifactory_password=${security.getEncryptedPassword()!"blahblah"}
artifactory_contextUrl=http://localhost:8081/artifactory
The build fails with the following error:
Execution failed for task ':artifactoryDeploy'.
> java.io.IOException: Failed to deploy file. Status code: 401 Response message: Artifactory returned the following errors:
Unauthorized Status code: 401
If we take a look at the printed username and password, we see this:
username=${security.getCurrentUsername()}
password=${security.getEncryptedPassword()!"blahblah"}
Gradle takes the properties values as literal strings instead of evaluating them. So the issue seems to be that the security object cannot be found, because if I replace the properties in build.gradle file with their values directly, the following error occurs:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'gradle-plantuml-plugin'.
> Could not get unknown property 'security' for object of type org.jfrog.gradle.plugin.artifactory.dsl.DoubleDelegateWrapper.
What am I doing wrong? The deploy works fine when using plaintext username and password, but I would like to use the auto-generated way of logging in (using an encrypted password).

Answer 1

It seems that gradle.properties should look like this:
username=your_username
password=blahblah
We suppose that blahblah is your encrypted password.