Repository credentials work if they're hardcoded, but not if they're from gradle.properties

Question

Problem

I am using Gradle and have my repository configurations, which require credentials. When I hardcode the username and password, everything works. When I try to store those same credentials in gradle.properties it doesn't.

Background

The repository declarations in my build.gradle file essentially looks like this:

repositories {
    maven {
        url 'https://artifactory.example.com/libs/'
        credentials {
            username "myUsername"
            password "myPassword"
        }
    }
}

Everything works great and I can connect to my repository.

What isn't working

As you can see above, the username and password is hardcoded. I want to make it configurable, so I follow the advice in this question add the following properties to gradle.properties.

storedUsername = "myUsername"
storedPassword = "myPassword"

I then modify the build.gradle file to refer to those properties:

repositories {
    maven {
        url 'https://artifactory.example.com/libs/'
        credentials {
            username project.storedUsername
            password project.storedPassword 
        }
    }
}

However, I am suddenly unable to connect to my repository. When I check my server (Artifactory) logs, I am told that access was denied to a user without a name.

Both files are in the root directory as siblings. I've added println "Username: ${project.repoUsername}" to the repositories{} block, as well as both the configurations {} and dependencies{} blocks. They all correctly return the values they should.

I suspect this may be a scoping issue, but I can't figure out where it is. What can I do to have both repositories in an external file and credentials in gradle.properties?

Answer 1

The configuration is correct, but the issue is with gradle.properties. It is currently configured this way:

storedUsername = "myUsername"
storedPassword = "myPassword"

The issue is with the quotes. You don't have to surround the values on the right side of the equal signs as a string, so the quotes are treated as literals. In other words, the username you are sending to the server isn't myUsername but instead is "myUsername", which presumably does not exist on the server.

Deleting the quotes will solve this issue:

storedUsername = myUsername
storedPassword = myPassword