How to add an environment variable in Java? [duplicate]

Answer 1

From how-do-i-set-environment-variables-from-java

A possible way to ease the burden would be to factor out a method

void setUpEnvironment(ProcessBuilder builder) {
    Map<String, String> env = builder.environment();
    // blah blah
}

and pass any ProcessBuilders through it before starting them.

Also, you probably already know this, but you can start more than one process with the same ProcessBuilder. So if your subprocesses are the same, you don't need to do this setup over and over.

Answer 2

You can add the desired variables directly into ProcessBuilder.environment() map. The code below should work:

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

class helloworld  {
public static void main(String[] args) {

    ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("/bin/sh"); // or any other program you want to run

    Map<String, String> envMap = pb.environment();

    envMap.put("MY_ENV_VAR", "1");
    Set<String> keys = envMap.keySet();
    for(String key:keys){
        System.out.println(key+" ==> "+envMap.get(key));
    }

}

}

Answer 3

 Map<String, String> env = pb.environment();
 env.put("MV_ENV_VAR", "1");

would set MY_ENV_VAR=1. Before you invoke the Process by

Process p = pb.start();

export would only be interpreted by a shell.

See also ProcessBuilder

A full example:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("CMD", "/C", "SET");
    Map<String, String> env = pb.environment();
    env.put("MYVAR", "myValue");
    Process p = pb.start();
    InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream());
    char[] buf = new char[1024];
    while (!isr.ready()) {
        ;
    }
    while (isr.read(buf) != -1) {
        System.out.println(buf);
    }
}

prints among other environment values:

MYVAR=myValue

This should prove that the created process uses the manipulated environment.

Answer 4

You can get the environment variable with the process Builder object :

    ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("myCommand", "myArg1", "myArg2");
    Map<String, String> env = pb.environment();
    env.put("VAR1", "myValue");
    env.remove("OTHERVAR");
    env.put("VAR2", env.get("VAR1") + "suffix");