What are possible causes for `applicationDefaultJvmArgs` not be passed to the program? I’m trying to...

# gradle

[Mario Andhika]

What are possible causes for applicationDefaultJvmArgs not be passed to the program? I’m trying to pass a variable from gradle to Ktor like this:

application {
  applicationDefaultJvmArgs = listOf("-Dzeals.version=7.7.7")
}

but in Ktor System.getProperty("zeals.version") returns null

[tapchicoma]

Gradle ApplicationPlugin sets as a convention value of applicationDefaultJvmArgs to the JavaExec.jvmArguments task input. The only way it could be overwritten - is that you are calling JavaExec.jvmArguments.set() or JavaExec.jvmArguments.add() down the build script.

[tapchicoma]

You could also increase Gradle log level to info to check the final arguments passed from JavaExec

[Mario Andhika]

Hmm it still happens even if I put the application block at the bottom of the script

[Mario Andhika]

Hmm I can’t find JavaExec in the build output logs even after setting the log level to debug through gradle.properties

[Mario Andhika]

I’m using Ktor plugin to run if that’s relevant

[tapchicoma]

how do you run Ktor application?

[Mario Andhika]

Using the Ktor run config. Here’s my configuration:

[Mario Andhika]

I’m suspecting Ktor because the code in the opening post works in a Kotlin/gradle hello world project.

[tapchicoma]

This configuration runs application not via JavaExec task, but invoking compiled code directly.

So you need to add here -Dzeals.version=7.7.7 into "program arguments"