Exporting Properties to Consul Server

This section describes exporting default and tokenized properties to Consul Server

1. Double click the application properties.
2. In the Properties view, select the profile, and click the Export Profile button.
   The Export Profile wizard opens.
3. In the Export Profile wizard, select the properties to be exported.
4. To export to consul sever, see select the Export to Consul check box and click Finish.
5. To enable authentication for the Consul Server, select the Consul Authentication check and click Finish.
   This check box is available only when the Export to Consul check box is selected. When the Consul Authentication check box is selected, it is mandatory to provide a authentication token.
   Note:

   • In the properties view, the values of the properties in the profile can be anything, when the profile is exported as a properties file it changes to #<PropertyName>#
   • The authentication token that has write authorization only can be exported to Consul Server. For more information, see the Using Consul as a Configuration Management Service from TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks.
   
   Note: It is now possible to export the profile properties to the specific custom folder under Consul > Key-Value by specifying its path in the Export to Consul check box.
   The following table lists the values of five different types of properties if the default values are not provided for all the properties and exported to consul server

   Data Type	Property Name		Values Before Export		Values After export		Values After Export in Consul Server
   			Default		Default
   String	newProperty5				#newProperty5#		newProperty5
   Password	newProperty4				#newProperty4#		<encrypted value of the password>
   Integer	newProperty3		0		#newProperty3#		0
   Long	newProperty2		0		#newProperty2#		0
   Boolean	newProperty1		false		#newProperty1#		false

   The following table lists the values of five different types of properties if the default values are provided for all the properties and exported to consul server

   Data Type	Property Name		Values Before Export		Values After export		Values After Export in Consul Server
   			Default		Default
   String	newProperty5		TIBCO		#newProperty5#		TIBCO
   Password	newProperty4		***		#newProperty4#		<encrypted value of the password>
   Integer	newProperty3		1		#newProperty3#		1
   Long	newProperty2		12345		#newProperty2#		12345
   Boolean	newProperty1		true		#newProperty1#		true

   The following table lists the values of five different types of properties if the default tokenized values are provided for all the properties and exported to consul server

   Data Type	Property Name		Values Before Export		Values After export		Values After Export in Consul Server
   			Default		Default
   String	newProperty5		#//test//newProperty5#		#newProperty5#		newProperty5
   Password	newProperty4		#//test//newProperty4#		#newProperty4#		a String: PASSWORD
   Integer	newProperty3		#//test//newProperty3#		#newProperty3#		0
   Long	newProperty2		#//test//newProperty2#		#newProperty2#		0
   Boolean	newProperty1		#//test//newProperty1#		#newProperty1#		false

   Note: After exporting String type property in group to consul server, the exported profile has key and value as newGroup.newGroup1.newGroup1Property5