How to externalize plugin properties outside

RE: How to externalize plugin properties outside

Justin Watts — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:54:15 GMT

What kinds of values are you hardcoding? Generally, I would suggest that you parameterize your plug-in services to take in appropriate environment specific values, and then use Appian's environment-specific constants to deploy/manage the correct values per environment.

If you really want to get custom.properties values or bundles, I would start by looking into this interface: docs.appian.com/.../Configuration.html and this one
docs.appian.com/.../ConfigurationLoader.html

RE: How to externalize plugin properties outside

aloks0189 — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:41:13 GMT

Hi @ruchi i agree with @jim you can instantiate ProcessDesignService class object using ServiceContext class as mention below

ProcessDesignService pds = ServiceLocator.getProcessDesignService(context);

This pds object will allow you to evaluate a constant which exists in your Appian environment.

For more details you can explore about PricessDesignService class in Appian API

Hope this will help you.

RE: How to externalize plugin properties outside

Jim Schweitzer — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:29:11 GMT

You might try using Appian Constants for this, and using the ContentService to retrieve constant values from within the Java code.

RE: How to externalize plugin properties outside

ruchiagarwala — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:41:55 GMT

Hi Alok,

In the directory /appian/data/AppianHome/current/ear/suite.ear/conf

I can see all below property files:

Here above there is a property file custom.properties. If I export some of the properties to this .. then using which class I can get it in custom plugin code.

Thanks-

Ruchi Agarwal

RE: How to externalize plugin properties outside

aloks0189 — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:34:05 GMT

Hi @ruchi may I know, you want to refer to which properties, by mean custom Appian property?

Because you have several classes in its API which allows you to retrieve configuration informations of Appian

RE: How to externalize plugin properties outside

ruchiagarwala — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 05:09:16 GMT

Hi Alok,
Thanks for the reply, but is there not any way to call custom appian property files in the plugin code. Using Configuration classes which are there in appian-sdk.jar or using some other such class.

RE: How to externalize plugin properties outside

aloks0189 — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:26:07 GMT

Hi ruchiagarwala as per my understanding, you cannot expose custom plugin properties file outside. If you have lot many hard coded values in your plugin code (which is not a good practice if these data vary in different different conditions), you should parameterize these fields so that you can pass the values from Appian accordingly.

Hope this will help you.