[GROOVY-7378] Spaces in JAVA_OPTS env var prevent launching of groovy

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.6
• Environment: Linux
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Pascal Schumacher
• Reporter: Jeffrey Adamson
• Created: 03/Apr/15 10:11
• Updated: 22/Feb/16 20:48
• Resolved: 16/Jan/16 12:33

Description

Set environment variable JAVA_OPTS to have a system property including spaces/quotes/double-quotes.

$ export JAVA_OPTS="-Dfoo='bar\" baz\"'"
$ groovy -e 'println System.getProperty("foo"); println args' 'arg space' "space quote' " "\""

Expected output would be:
'bar" baz"'
[arg space, space quote' , "]

Actual output is:
Error: Could not find or load main class baz"'

I can not comment on proper way to fix startGroovy.bat (assuming it suffers similarly), but included is diff that fixes startGroovy unix script to handle JAVA_OPTS such that quoted arguments are preserved as expected.

I modeled the attached change which seems to resolve the issue for *nix on the tomcat `catalina.sh run` script block.

p.s. A concrete use case that bit me was trying to pass java.io.tmpdir to a groovy script to a path that included a space. There are outside reasons that modifying the script to read the desired value and set the system property is not a practical solution.

Issue Links

• relates to: GROOVY-4910 groovy.bat fails when the JAVA_OPTS contains space characters