Procedure — Decrypting a Property Value
1. All code that extends Windchill base classes which retrieve property values must be updated if they overwrite methods that return property values. For custom code that obtain and use property values you can decrypt an encrypted value by using the following:
a. com.ptc.windchill.keystore.WTKeyStoreUtil provides an API to obtain the decrypted value of a property value if it is encrypted (see the Javadoc for complete details). The API is:
public static String decryptProperty(String property_name,
String property_value, String product_root)
Where property_name is the property name for which you want to decrypt a value for, property_value is the value that may currently be encrypted and product_root is the fully qualified path to <Windchill> (or <adapater_home> for adapter installations).
A code example for the usage of this API is as follows:
final String encrypted_value = “encrypted.wt.pom.dbPassword”;
final String property = “wt.pom.dbPassword”;
final String PATH = “D:\ptc\Windchill\”;
String decrypted = com.ptc.windchill.keystore.WTKeyStoreUtil. decryptProperty(property,encrypted_value, PATH);
The string decrypted now contains the decrypted value and can be used properly elsewhere in the code where it is relied on.