ApplicationBuildProperty

The ApplicationBuildProperty is an element that adds meaning to the ApplicationBuild element. E.g. you can define that an application uses a certain network port, or requires a password, together with a preset password, or have the system generate a unique password for each ApplicationInstance. These properties are necessary for the system to work properly.

Note

You cannot create an ApplicationBuildProperty yourself. They will be inherited from the Application and its ApplicationProperty elements the ApplicationBuild is based on. You CAN override property values if you need to.

Element structure

Property	Value type	Required	Read-only	Description
propertyId	string	N/A	Yes	Unique identifier of the element
propertyType	int	Yes	No	Type ID of the property
propertyKey	string	Yes	No	The name of the property
propertyValue	mixed	Only for network port	No	The value of the property

Table 1: ApplicationBuildProperty element structure

propertyKey constraints

The characters allowed for a propertyKey are : a-z, 0-9, -, _ A property key must start with a lowercase character.

The maximum length of a propertyKey is 50 characters.

propertyValue constraints

Any UTF-8 character is allowed in a propertyValue.

The maximum length of a propertyValue is 150 characters.

propertyType

ApplicationBuildProperty elements consist of a propertyType, a propertyKey and a propertyValue. The propertyType indicates the functionality of the property. The propertyKey gives the property a name and the value a value. Not all property types require a value. E.g. if you have a property of propertyType password16, you can leave propertyValue empty. This means we will generate a password, in this case with a length of 16 characters. If however you do enter a propertyValue, then we take that as the password and the system will not generate a new random password. You can find all available property types and usages in the next chapter.

Available property types

A propertyType is indicated by a numerical ID. The following types are available:

ID	Type	Value type	Value required?	Description
0	raw value	mixed	yes	A custom raw value. This property's key and value will be passed to ApplicationBuilds, ApplicationInstances and labels as-is.
1	public network port	0 or a number between 10240 - 29999	yes	Indicates a default or random network port for your application to use.
2	password8	string	no	An 8 character password. If no value provided, we generate a unique password for every ApplicationInstance.
3	password16	string	no	A 16 character password. If no value provided, we generate a unique password for every ApplicationInstance.
4	password24	string	no	A 24 character password. If no value provided, we generate a unique password for every ApplicationInstance.
5	public network port range	a number between 2 and 200	yes	A number indicating the size of the desired port range.
6	private network port	0 or a number between 30000 - 49151	yes	Indicates a default or random network port for your application to use.
7	private network port range	a number between 2 and 200	yes	A number indicating the size of the desired private port range.

Table 2: Property types

Property inheritance

An ApplicationBuild's properties will be inherited by all ApplicationInstance elements deployed for said ApplicationBuild.

Property value overrides

An ApplicationProperty's value can be overridden at later stages, in the listed order:

an ApplicationBuild will inherit an Application's properties. Its values can be overridden in the ApplicationBuild (API documentation)
a DeploymentRegion can override a property on a per-region basis. This can be useful if you want to define different property values for each deployment region, allowing you to start your applications with region-based startup parameters (API documentation)

As such, an override on DeploymentRegion level always wins. If no override for a DeploymentRegion is present, an override of the ApplicationBuild will win. If no override for an ApplicationBuild is present, the original property value defined for the Application will win.

Property usage

Every property you define will become available as platform variables that can be used in configuration related properties: ApplicationBuild.startupParameters and ApplicationBuildConfiguration.configContents. Please see the platform variables topic for more details.

Restrictions

You can assign any number of ApplicationBuildProperty to an ApplicationBuild. There is no limitation there. The only rule is that you must have unique propertyKey names per ApplicationBuild.