Application unable to read external properties file after upgrading WKO from 3.2.3 to 4.0.0

[jkramplify]

I encountered issues when upgrading from 3.2.3 to 4.0.0. Some of our applications suddenly unable to read an external environment.properties file located at DOMAIN_HOME/wlsdeploy/environment.properties.

The way our applications are reading this file is <beans:value>file:wlsdeploy/environment.properties</beans:value>

Nothing changed in the application side. The only changes were upgrading WKO to 4.0.0 and using oracle.weblogic/v9 domain schema.

Edit: Updated the initial wko version from 3.0.0 to 3.2.3.

[rjeberhard]

Are you using 4.0.0 or the latest, 4.0.5?

[jkramplify]

Are you using 4.0.0 or the latest, 4.0.5?

4.0.0 But I can upgrade to 4.0.5 if you would recommend that.

[rjeberhard]

None of the fixes in 4.0.1 through 4.0.5 seem immediately relevant to the problem you are facing (https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-kubernetes-operator/releases); however, I'd still recommend upgrading to 4.0.5 for two related reasons: 1) It's possible that 4.0.5 will resolve your problem because your issue was a side-effect of one of the issues that was fixed and so it would be a shame to waste time diagnosing such a problem, and 2) If we do need to fix a bug and release a fix then this would be a 4.0.6 release. We don't have a process for delivering patches similar to how this is done for WebLogic.

[jkramplify]

Hi @rjeberhard still having the same issue with 4.0.5. So for now we will not update our wko. And in the meantime I will try to find out at which version after 3.2.3 the issue occurs.

[robertpatrick]

@jkramplify Please see https://oracle.github.io/weblogic-deploy-tooling/concepts/archive/#wlsdeploycustom. Dropping a random file in a random location in the WDT Archive is not supported (and never has been--even if it was previously working).