gradle: Execute task "type:Exec" with many arguments with spaces - batch-file

Question

I have the gradle task that should create Websphere profile on Windows OS
task createProfile(type:Exec) {
def commandToExecute = new StringBuffer()
def profile = 'AppSrv02'
def wasHome = 'C:/IBM new/WebSphere/AppServer'
def str = new LinkedList <String> ();
str.add('cmd')
str.add('/c')
str.add(wasHome + '/bin/manageprofiles.bat')
str.add('-create')
str.add('-profileName')
str.add(profile)
//str.add('-templatePath')
//str.add(wasHome + '/profileTemplates/default')
println (str)
commandLine str.toArray()
}
And the problem appears if I uncomment commented lines, after it task fails and say me that: "C:/IBM" is not valid batch file. If I put profileTemplates not in the folder that contains spaces, everything works fine again. But templates should lies int wasHome( And sometimes wasHome has spaces(
I have, now ideas why adding templates key with value with spaces influence in such way that Gradle tries to start "C:/IBM" instead specified 'C:/IBM new/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/manageprofiles.bat'. It seems that, possibly, problem inside java.lang.ProcessBuilder.
I tries to quote paths, by adding "/"" but nothing works(((( what isn't surprise, because ProcessBuilder implies quoting by itself if it is needed.
So, I am asking if anybody had the similar problem and could recommend how to work around this issue? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If somebody needed it, we found a workaround for this problem. The task finally looks like:
task createProfile(type: Exec) {
executable = new File(wsadminLocation, manageProfilesFileName)
def templatePath = wasHome + File.separator + "profileTemplates" + File.separator + "default"
def argsList = ["-create", "-profileName", profile, "-templatePath", templatePath, "-nodeName", nodeName, "-cellName", wasCellName, "-enableAdminSecurity", isProfileSecured, "-adminUserName", rootProject.wasLogin, "-adminPassword", rootProject.wasPassword]
args = argsList
}
The basic idea is to pass the arguments to the Gradle not as long string, but as a list. So in this way there aren't any problems if an argument contains a space.

Answer 2

Change following lines
def wasHome = '"C:/IBM new/WebSphere/AppServer'
...
str.add(wasHome + '/bin/manageprofiles.bat"')
That way, the full path to the batch file is quoted.
EDITED - As stated by dbenhan, a little obfuscated. This "should" be something like
task createProfile(type:Exec) {
def commandToExecute = new StringBuffer()
def profile = 'AppSrv02'
def wasHome = 'C:/IBM new/WebSphere/AppServer'
def str = new LinkedList <String> ();
str.add('cmd')
str.add('/c')
str.add('"' + wasHome + '/bin/manageprofiles.bat"')
str.add('-create')
str.add('-profileName')
str.add(profile)
str.add('-templatePath')
str.add('"' + wasHome + '/profileTemplates/default"')
println (str)
commandLine str.toArray()
}
BUT, while gradle in particular and windows in general can handle paths with slash separators, i have no idea if manageprofiles.bat can, and you are passing a parameter with a path in it. Maybe, you will need to change your paths to 'c:\\IBM new\\....'

Answer 3

Try This
task xyz {
def result1 = exec {
workingDir "D:/abc/efg"
commandLine 'cmd', '/c', 'CDUTIL.bat', "qwe", "rty"
}
println result1.toString()
}