Unable to load GPG key from local.properties

[sasa-b]

Hey there, I've followed your blog post https://blog.deepmedia.io/post/how-to-publish-to-maven-central-in-2024 but no matter what I do I'm unable to load the GPG key.

I keep getting this error Cause: secret key ring doesn't start with secret key tag: tag 0xffffffff. With or without \n line character, I've tried escaping the \\n and putting the key between "" but it still doesn't help.

[natario1]

Where are you loading the GPG key from?

[sasa-b]

@natario1 I tried loading it from local.properties / gradle.properties

I also tried populating the ENV as well with System.setProperty("SIGNING_KEY", File("key.txt").readText()) and removing it from local.properties but I got the same error.

[natario1]

Here's how the key should look like in .properties files. Note that newlines are simple \n.

Beginning:

End:

If your key looks similar, maybe you are using the wrong password.

[sasa-b]

@natario1 thank you very much for the prompt responses, the issue was that I didn't start with the newline special character SIGNING_KEY=\n... 🤦‍♂️