[GROOVY-1013] groovy command accepts very limited number of command line args on windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-3
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-4
• Component/s: command line processing
• Environment: win xp, jdk 142_08
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Antti Karanta
• Created: 18/Aug/05 01:03
• Updated: 29/Aug/05 05:46
• Resolved: 29/Aug/05 05:46

Description

groovy command line accepts only a very limited number of command line arguments on windows. This is simplest to demonstrate like this:

C:\Temp>groovy -e "println args.toList()" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

At the moment the number of arguments seems to be hardcoded into groovy.bat. The minimum fix would be to increase the number of accepted args to something like 20-30 (I don't know if Windows's limitations come into play). The best would of course to be able to accept an arbitrary number of args.