pass local.properties in build.gradle android through Git Hub secret

Question

I am trying to automate build process of android app, I have stored baseUrl in local.properties file, and passing file content through Github secret, but Github action is keep failing,

build.gradle:

    def propFile=rootProject.file("./local.properties")
    def properties = new Properties()
    properties.load(new FileInputStream(propFile))

    def baseUrl = properties['BASEURL']
    //getProperty("BASEURL", "")


    debug {
        buildConfigField 'String', "BASEURL", baseUrl
        resValue 'string', "base_url", baseUrl
    }

YML:

name: Android CI

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: set up JDK 1.8
      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
      with:
        java-version: 1.8
    - name: Decode BASEURL
      env:
        BASEURL: ${{ secrets.BASEURL }}
      run: echo BASEURL="$BASEURL" > ./local.properties


    - name: Clean
      run: ./gradlew clean
    - name: Build with Gradle
      run: ./gradlew build

How i am passing BASEURL through Github secret

This is log output from Github action Console

Pace

You have probably placed local.properties not at the root of your project when you created it in github actions. Can you do echo BASEURL="$BASEURL" > ./local.properties, can you also run ls -al to see the layout of the files – Scoundrel

i checked local.properties file is in root of the project, @Scoundrel – Pace

Answer 1

I solved my problem, I was passing wrongly argument from Github secret, it should be like

\"http://fakeapi.com"\

and also i was doing wrong in action file, instead of ./gradlew build it should be

./gradlew assembleDebug --stacktrace

then only it will invoke below part from build.gradle and replace the BaseUrl with new value from local.properties

debug {
            buildConfigField 'String', "BASEURL", baseUrl
            resValue 'string', "base_url", baseUrl
        }

I also used https://github.com/juliangruber/read-file-action to see the content of the local.properties and verified everything is fine in this file or not.

Pace

it does seem to be like \"fakeapi.com\" ??? (please note the ' "\ ' in the answer). – Tonneau

Answer 2

I used below command and its worked . Don't need to consider \

run: echo 'apiKey=${{ secrets.API_KEY }}' > ./local.properties

And secret key API_KEY value was stored like "*******"

Jacobjacoba