Ant, jvmarg, system properties and quotes

Question

We have a property which contains a series of arguments to be passed to the JVM in an Ant script.

Example (note the quotes in the second entry):

-Dsq         


        

Answer 1

I use <jvmarg> with single value

 <jvmarg value="-ea"/>
 <jvmarg value="-Dapp.URL=URL=${jvmargs}"/>

Then this called with following line...

 ant tests -Djvmargs=\'jdbc:oracle:thin:@//192.168.56.42:1521/xe\':User=user:Password=password -debug

The output with -debug has lines expected by you.

 [junit] '-ea'
 [junit] '-Dapp.URL=URL='jdbc:oracle:thin:@//192.168.56.42:1521/xe':User=user:Password=password'

The line is meant to process arguments separated with space. It could be doing additional parsing and processing to handle input with whitespace. I have not checked the code yet.