[KAFKA-9710] Windows kafka-server-start.bat script fails when Kafka is located in path with whitespace

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Component/s: tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: frost321
• Created: 12/Mar/20 08:00
• Updated: 23/Jun/23 09:14

Description

Steps to reproduce:

On Windows when you place Kafka to directory path with space, for example "C:\kafka path with whitespace" in it and run ".\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat", script will fail with error message "Error: Could not find or load main class path" (example in image). 

Possible solution:

Working solution is to remove double quotes around %CLASSPATH% variable in "kafka-run-class.bat" since all paths included in %CLASSPATH% variable already includes double quotes around them. So changing line 179 in file "kafka-run-class.bat" 
FROM:

set COMMAND=%JAVA% %KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS% %KAFKA_JVM_PERFORMANCE_OPTS% %KAFKA_JMX_OPTS% %KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS% -cp "%CLASSPATH%" %KAFKA_OPTS% %*

TO:

set COMMAND=%JAVA% %KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS% %KAFKA_JVM_PERFORMANCE_OPTS% %KAFKA_JMX_OPTS% %KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS% -cp %CLASSPATH% %KAFKA_OPTS% %*

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13057