[JENA-286] Windows Batch scripts don't handle paths with spaces correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Jena 2.7.2
• Fix Version/s: Jena 2.7.3
• Component/s: ARQ, Jena, RIOT, TDB

Environment

Windows

• Assignee: Rob Vesse
• Reporter: Rob Vesse
• Created: 25/Jul/12 23:35
• Updated: 21/Aug/12 18:42
• Resolved: 29/Jul/12 09:50

Description

In tracking down the error reported by a user on the mailing list with running the scripts on Windows I discovered they don't appropriately handle spaces.

While someone clearly wrote them with this in mind as written it doesn't work. For example consider sparql.bat which is written like so currently:

set JVM_ARGS=-Xmx1024M
set JENA_CP="%JENAROOT%\lib*;"
set LOGGING=-Dlog4j.configuration=file:%JENAROOT%/jena-log4j.properties

java %JVM_ARGS% %LOGGING% -cp %JENA_CP% arq.sparql %*
exit /B

In order to work correctly it must actually be written like this:

set JVM_ARGS=-Xmx1024M
set JENA_CP=%JENAROOT%\lib*;

java %JVM_ARGS% -Dlog4j.configuration="file:%JENAROOT%/jena-log4j.properties" -cp "%JENA_CP%" arq.sparql %*
exit /B

The cause of the error is that quotes used when setting a variable do not actually carry through when that variable is accessed

Issue will be closed when all batch scripts are appropriately updated