[GROOVY-5020] invoking groovy with -D seems to mess up main's args in some cases

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Component/s: command line processing
• Environment: Ubuntu 11.04 amd64, 64-bit sun java; ; java version "1.6.0_27"; Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_27-b07); Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.2-b06, mixed mode)
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Jay Berkenbilt
• Created: 14/Sep/11 10:49
• Updated: 20/Feb/12 05:43
• Resolved: 06/Feb/12 04:48

Description

Put this code in A.groovy

class A
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
	args.each { println it }
    }
}

Run

groovy -Da=b A.groovy -no-file

Actual output:

-n
o-file

Expected output:

-no-file

Omitting the -Da=b causes the arguments to be processed correctly. It appears that groovy's startup script is calling java correctly. In other words, running this command:

/opt/jdk/bin/java -classpath /opt/groovy/lib/groovy-1.8.2.jar -Dscript.name=/opt/groovy/bin/groovy -Dprogram.name=groovy -Dgroovy.starter.conf=/opt/groovy/conf/groovy-starter.conf -Dgroovy.home=/opt/groovy -Dtools.jar=/opt/jdk/lib/tools.jar org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter --main groovy.ui.GroovyMain --conf /opt/groovy/conf/groovy-starter.conf --classpath . -Da=b A.groovy -no-file

results in the same output.

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-5191 Running script with '--enoding' param and some script parameters
• is related to: GROOVY-5282 upgrade Apache Commons CLI to version 1.3