[GROOVY-1034] running groovy.bat does not return exit status on windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-3
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.2, 1.6.9, 1.8-beta-1
• Environment: win xp sp2, java 1.4.2_09
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Antti Karanta
• Created: 01/Sep/05 06:49
• Updated: 07/Apr/10 23:45
• Resolved: 05/Apr/10 07:33

Description

Running groovy from within another script does not give the real exit value of the groovy process. Try any of the following:

perl -e "system('groovy -e \"System.exit(1)\"');print $?>>8"
ruby -e "system('groovy.bat -e \"System.exit(1)\"');print $?>>8"
groovy -e "p='groovy.bat -e \"System.exit(1)\"'.execute();p.waitFor();println p.exitValue()"

To see that the above examples are correct in catching the exit code, try e.g.

ruby -e "system('ruby -e \"exit(2)\"');print $?>>8"
groovy -e "def p='ruby -e \"exit(2)\"'.execute();;p.waitFor();println p.exitValue()"

Adding

exit %ERROR_LEVEL%

to the end of groovy.bat solves the problem but is not usable as it causes command prompt to exit if running groovy directly (i.e. not via some other script).