PySys. pysysproject.xml: How to build <path> nodes relying on properties' values

Question

In my pysysproject.xml some properties are defined that reference some paths in my project, in a similar way that those shown below:

...
<property name="path1" value="/dir1/dir2/dirA" /> 
<property name="path2" value="/dir1/dir2/dirB" /> 
<property name="path3" value="/dir1/dir2/dirC" /> 
...

At the end of my file, we also include some <path> nodes to provide the Python interpreter additional directories for searching for modules. That looks like similar to

<path value="./dir1/dir2/dirA/module1" relative="true"/>
<path value="./dir1/dir2/dirB/module2" relative="true"/>
<path value="./dir1/dir2/dirC/module3" relative="true"/>

where the base directories for module1 , module2 and module3 correspond to the values provided for the path1 , path2 and path3 properties respectively...

What I'd like to know if there is a way of using these properties when setting these paths, like:

<path value="./${path1}/module1" relative="true" />
<path value="./${path2}/module2" relative="true" />
<path value="./${path3}/module3" relative="true" />

I've tried this way before but, Unfortunately, it didn't work... The contents of the Python's sys.path object I get was

[ OTHER_DIRS, u'C:\\MSM\\tests\\${path1}\\Module1', u'C:\\MSM\\tests\\${path2}\\Module2', u'C:\\MSM\\tests\\${path3}\\Module3']

that shows that the properties were not replaced by their contents in the way we'd like (the following ouput is the "expected" one):

[ OTHER_DIRS, u'C:\\MSM\\tests\\dir1\\dir2\\dirA\\Module1', u'C:\\MSM\\tests\\dir1\\dir2\\dirB\\Module2', u'C:\\MSM\\\\dir1\\dir2\\dirC\\Module3']

Any feedback about that will be appreciated...

Answer 1

Unfortunately this isn't supported at the moment. We do expand environment variables into the path element, but not previously defined properties as defined in the project file. I will add a feature request and implement in the next release.