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Bug 367591

Summary:	Support Env variables in XmlConfiguration
Product:	[RT] Jetty	Reporter:	Greg Wilkins <gregw>
Component:	server	Assignee:	Shirley Boulay <boulay>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	hmalphettes, jetty-inbox, simbo1905
Version:	7.6.0.RC0
Target Milestone:	7.5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Greg Wilkins

2011-12-27 19:08:52 EST

Support Env variables in XmlConfiguration

Comment 1 Greg Wilkins

2011-12-27 19:25:03 EST

I have implemented this with the new tag "Env" that will be in 7.6 onwards.

An example is:

  <Env name="HOME"/>

which expands to the string value of the HOME environment variable.  You can also have a default value if HOME is not set:

  <Env name="HOME" default="value"/>


The Env element can be used anywhere a value is expected (just like the SystemProperty element).

Comment 2 Hugues Malphettes

2011-12-30 20:00:08 EST

Thanks Greg!

Comment 3 Simon

2012-06-17 03:40:42 EDT

Can we have an example please? You show how to define it but how to use it to set something like the --host option to get the server to bind to the correct interface on a cloud platform? 

I am trying to use this feature with jetty-runner version 7.6.4.v20120524 and it gives an error that the xml syntax is unknown: 

2012-06-17 08:30:51.340:WARN:oejx.XmlConfiguration:Config error at <Env name="INTERFACE" default="1.2.3.4"/> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown tag: Env
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown tag: Env
	at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$JettyXmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:394)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$JettyXmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:320)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:279)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.runner.Runner.configure(Runner.java:263)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.runner.Runner.main(Runner.java:624)