[kepler-dev] Environment Variables

[Michal Owsiak]

Try following instead.

Inside expression actor use following:

getenv("YOUR_VARIABLE_GOES_HERE")

Michal


> Hi,
>
> Could someone explain to me if there is a bug or I am doing something wrong
> that my workflows can't access environment variables.
>
> I tried setting them up in usual ways (profile scripts) and by using
> environment.txt but no actor has access to them.
>
> For example I tried setting up TESTVAR and then accessing it in constant
> actor but it raises an error as if it was not there. Top of the exception
> stack is just below.
>
> Regards,
> Slavisa Garic
> PS. I can see this being set with kepler-2.4.0/module-info/environment.txt
> when Kepler is launched by kepler.sh and I get messages such as
>
> ....
> Set environment variable: TESTVAR = mymessage
> Set environment variable: R_HOME = /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
> ....
>
>
> ptolemy.kernel.util.IllegalActionException: Error evaluating expression:
>> $TESTVAR
>>    in .Unnamed1.Constant.value
>> Because:
>> Error parsing expression "$TESTVAR"
>> Because:
>> Encountered "" at line 1, column 1.
>> Was expecting one of:
>>
>> Because:
>> Error evaluating expression: $TESTVAR
>>    in .Unnamed1.Constant.value
>> Because:
>> Error parsing expression "$TESTVAR"
>> Because:
>> Encountered "" at line 1, column 1.
>> Was expecting one of:
>>
>> at ptolemy.data.expr.Variable.validate(Variable.java:1491)
>> at ptolemy.moml.MoMLParser.endDocument(MoMLParser.java:802)
>> at com.microstar.xml.XmlParser.doParse(XmlParser.java:162)
>> at com.microstar.xml.XmlParser.parse(XmlParser.java:132)
>> at ptolemy.moml.MoMLParser.parse(MoMLParser.java:1540)
>> at ptolemy.moml.MoMLParser.parse(MoMLParser.java:1512)
>> at ptolemy.moml.MoMLParser.parse(MoMLParser.java:1668)
>> at ptolemy.moml.MoMLChangeRequest._execute(MoMLChangeRequest.java:289)
>> at ptolemy.actor.gui.PtolemyQuery$3._execute(PtolemyQuery.java:824)
>> at ptolemy.kernel.util.ChangeRequest.execute(ChangeRequest.java:171)
>> at ptolemy.kernel.util.NamedObj._executeChangeRequests(NamedObj.java:2559)
>> at ptolemy.kernel.util.NamedObj.executeChangeRequests(NamedObj.java:725)
>> at ptolemy.kernel.util.NamedObj.requestChange(NamedObj.java:1776)
>> at ptolemy.actor.CompositeActor.requestChange(CompositeActor.java:1957)
>> at ptolemy.kernel.util.NamedObj.requestChange(NamedObj.java:1761)
>> at ptolemy.actor.gui.PtolemyQuery.changed(PtolemyQuery.java:885)
>> at ptolemy.gui.Query._notifyListeners(Query.java:1928)
>> at ptolemy.gui.Query$QueryFocusListener.focusLost(Query.java:2515)
>> at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.focusLost(AWTEventMulticaster.java:213)
>> at java.awt.Component.processFocusEvent(Component.java:6306)
>> at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6170)
>> at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2084)
>> at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4776)
>> at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2142)
>> at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4604)
>> at
>> java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.redispatchEvent(KeyboardFocusManager.java:1856)
>> at
>> java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.typeAheadAssertions(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:920)
>> at
>> java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:578)
>
> .....
>> .....
>
>
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