[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (SUREFIRE-121) System properties set on the command line get clobbered

["Gin-Ting Chen (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Gin-Ting Chen edited comment on SUREFIRE-121 at 12/3/08 10:31 AM:
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I'm also interested in what happens in this bug.

2 potential solutions.
# just toggle between the two behaviors based on a <useSystemProperties>true</useSystemProperties> flag
# allow the use of a surefire.properties file with content like:
{code}foobar=${foobar}{code}

Why properties file support for setting properties was removed for m2 I could never understand but it would be a nice quick way to solve this particular problem.

Note: This bug also breaks using profile properties which is a real PITA.

      was (Author: chengt):
    I'm also interested in what happens in this bug.

2 potential solutions.
# just toggle between the two behaviors based on a <useSystemProperties>true</useSystemProperties> flag
# allow the use of a surefire.properties file with content like:
{code}foobar=${foobar}{code}

Why properties file support for setting properties was removed for m2 I could never understand but it would be a nice quick way to solve this particular problem.
  
> System properties set on the command line get clobbered
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SUREFIRE-121
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-121
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0 (2.2 plugin)
>         Environment: Linux, Maven 2.0.4, Sun JDK 1.5U5, bash 3.0
>            Reporter: Brenton Leanhardt
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: Future
>
>
> Some system properties get clobbered if you set them on the command line. For example,
> mvn clean test -Dtest=LoginTest -Dselenium.user=test32
> The 'test' system property will work, but the 'selenium.user' property will be null at runtime.  I have tried:
> * hard coding the system property in the unit test, this worked fine.
> * setting the system properties in the pom file, this worked fine also.
> * tried an older version of the surefire plugin, this worked fine.

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