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oleksii
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

How to set OS environment variable from groovy script.

I've not found a way to set OS environment variable from a groovy test step. Tried this: System.setProperty("prp_name", "value") def prp = System.getProperties() log.info prp["prp_name"] It only w...
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KarelHusa
Champion Level 2
8 years ago

If you set an environment (operating system) variable in a process, it will exist in that process and its child processes.

 

You can check that -- launch two cmd prompts and set a variabe in one of them. You won't be able to reach it in the other. But if you launch a child terminal, it will have the variable.

 

If you execute a process from within SoapUI, it will be a child process and thus will have the variable.