Using INSTALL_PATH in Java properties

[Phil Hyde]

I am using the TargetPanel to choose a location folder.  

As part of my install, I have a Java properties file for my application (parseable) which contains several paths.  For example:

     system.BinDir = ${INSTALL_PATH}${FILE_SEPARATOR}my_app${FILE_SEPARATOR}bin

Our Java application is deployed within Tomcat.  On Windows, I have found for certain Java properties we either need to use a single forward slash "/" or multiple backslashes "\\".

On Windows, multiple backslashes works.  E.g. "c:\\appl\\".

The built-in variable INSTALL_PATH gets set exactly to a folder.  For example "C:\appl" on windows.  This is problematic because of the single backslash.  I could replace c:\ with c:\\ and my problem would be solved

Has anyone found a creative solution to make this work in a reusable way?  

[Phil Hyde]

After reading the documentation on Dynamic Variables, what I think I want is to use a regex replace, and modify the install path (e.g. C:\appl) to C:\\appl.

Anybody got an example of something like this?

[Phil Hyde]

Did some testing based on typical regex patterns.  Cannot get this to work:

<variable name="TEST_PATH"  value="${INSTALL_PATH}">

            <filters>

                <regex regexp="/\\/g" replace="\\\\" />

            </filters>

</variable>

[Phil Hyde]

More testing.  This appears to work, but I would appreciate any feedback.

                <regex regexp="[\\\\]" replace="\\\\\\\\" global="true"/>

[René Krell]

Dne úterý 4. října 2016 19:54:47 UTC+2 Phil Hyde napsal(a):

More testing.  This appears to work, but I would appreciate any feedback.

                <regex regexp="[\\\\]" replace="\\\\\\\\" global="true"/>

Maybe a better approach would be using just slashes for each OS, for instance 

:

<variable name="previous.JAVA_HOME" escape="false" file="${INSTALL_PATH}/env.cmd" type="options" key="SET JRE" ignorefailure="true">
  <filters>
    <regex regexp="[/\\]+" replace="/" global="true" />
    <regex regexp="[&quot;']+" replace="" global="true" />
  </filters>
</variable>

For your example, to normalize all separators to the native one for Windows, there should work this expression:

<regex regexp="[/\\]+" replace="\\\\" global="true" />

 

[Phil Hyde]

Thanks.

Where do I find this "env.cmd" you referenced?  Or is this just an example?

[Phil Hyde]

I tried your suggestion:

  <regex regexp="[/\\]+" replace="\\\\" global="true" />

And this does not seem to work for me.   I am using INSTALL_PATH set to C:\appl.  Your code does not change it.

[René Krell]

Dne 5. 10. 2016 20:20 napsal uživatel "Phil Hyde" <phil...@gmail.com>:

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> I tried your suggestion:
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>   <regex regexp="[/\\]+" replace="\\\\" global="true" />
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> And this does not seem to work for me.   I am using INSTALL_PATH set to C:\appl.  Your code does not change it.

Of course, this is expected. I forgot you want two backslashes. For this purpose, use:

[Phil Hyde]

This works too.  Thanks!

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 2:26:53 PM UTC-5, René Krell wrote:

Dne 5. 10. 2016 20:20 napsal uživatel "Phil Hyde" <phil...@gmail.com>:

>Of course, this is expected. I forgot you want two backslashes. For this purpose, use: