Any possible reason that a Ktor project would igno...

# ktor

[Mario Andhika]

Any possible reason that a Ktor project would ignore gradle’s application block? I’m trying to pass a variable like this:

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

But System.getProperty("zeals.version") returns null. Even the example in this doc https://ktor.io/docs/server-development-mode.html#environment-variable
This part:

application {
    applicationDefaultJvmArgs = listOf("-Dio.ktor.development=true")
}

Doesn’t seem to work. I’m using the IntelliJ Ktor plugin to run. I’m still able to activate development mode via Run Configurations, but I need to pass other variables also using applicationDefaultJvmArgs

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

How do you run the application?

[Mario Andhika]

Using IntelliJ Run button with Ktor run config

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

The listed configuration is applied only to the Gradle Application plugin and has an effect when executing the run Gradle task. You can specify these properties in IntelliJ IDEA by using the VM options field in the run configuration window.