[MNG-7158] support environment variable interpolation in alt*DeploymentRepository properties

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 3.8.1
• Component/s: Inheritance and Interpolation
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: RH Becker
• Created: 18/May/21 01:22
• Updated: 19/May/21 06:41
• Resolved: 19/May/21 06:41

Description

In settings.xml, I'm trying to do something like ...

<profile>
  <id>distribution</id>
  <activation>
    <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
  </activation>
  <properties>
    <altDeploymentRepository>my-repo::default::${env.REPO_URI}</altDeploymentRepository>
  </properties>
</profile>

If I replace ${env.REPO_URI} with a literal value, it works.

I thought maybe I was hitting some general limitation where interpolation isn't supported for profile properties, but the example here makes it seem as though they are supported; i.e. this bit ...

<properties>
  <user.install>${user.home}/our-project</user.install>
</properties>

Is this something that could be supported for alt*DeploymentRepository properties?