Environment variable in plugin executable path?

pw_smn · September 12, 2023, 1:32pm

Hello there!

Is there a way, to include windows environment variable in a plugin’s executable’s path?
I can’t seem to find anything about this, and it seems like the %localappdata% format is not resolved by Deadline 10.

Thanks in advance!

zainali · September 12, 2023, 3:05pm

Hello

Thanks for reaching out. I do not think it can be resolved by Deadline at all. Windows can only resolve the environment like this. Just out of curiosity what are you trying to achieve?

pw_smn · September 13, 2023, 7:09am

On our farm machines there is software under the
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\software
path.

Since this path changes for every user, I would like to use a path like this:
%localappdata%\software
to cover this path depending on which machine is running the task.

mois.moshev · September 13, 2023, 9:46am

You would have to hack the render plugin’s RenderExecutable method to call e.g. os.path.expandvars at a suitable moment.

pw_smn · September 13, 2023, 10:03am

If Deadline can’t translate these vars to paths, then this will be a solution, thanks for the suggestion!

pw_smn · September 18, 2023, 12:13pm

Your solution works perfectly!
In GetRenderExecutable simply changed
gafferExeList = self.GetConfigEntry("Executable" + str(self.Version).replace(".", "_"))
to
gafferExeList = os.path.expandvars(self.GetConfigEntry("Executable" + str(self.Version).replace(".", "_")))

and it works like a charm.