[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #2212: Property placeholder does not work in shell command

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#2212: Property placeholder does not work in shell command
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Reporter:  DavidIAm    |       Owner:  tom.prince
    Type:  defect      |      Status:  accepted
Priority:  minor       |   Milestone:  0.8.+
 Version:  master      |  Resolution:
Keywords:  properties  |
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Changes (by tom.prince):

 * status:  new => accepted
 * priority:  major => minor
 * owner:   => tom.prince
 * version:  0.8.5 => master
 * milestone:  undecided => 0.8.+
 * keywords:  property, properties => properties


Comment:

 What is going on here is that {{{Property("buildnumber")}}} gets rendered
 as an int, which then causes the environment substitution to fail later.

 Certainly we should have a better error message here, but I'm not sure if
 we want to be automatically coercing things to strings. Certainly it is
 reasonable for ints, but we don't also want to do it for arbitrary
 objects.

 A work around is to do {{{WithProperty("%(buildnumber)s")}}}, which does
 deliberately coerce things.

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