RE: Problem with quoted argument value

[Adam Murdoch]

Try using

<arg value="-cp"/>
<arg path="c:/mypath"/>

instead of

>               <arg value="-cp &quot;c:/mypath&quot;"/>


Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 March 2002 2:39 AM
> To: 'Ant Users List'
> Subject: Problem with quoted argument value
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a task in an Ant script that will deploy
> an EJB module.
> Part of this task makes a call to the ejbdeploy.bat
> script for generating ejb deployment code.
> This script can take a class path as an argument as
> follows:
>       -cp "classpath here separated by semicolons"
> Note that the double quotes must surround this
> argument.   (I am using the Websphere ejbdeploy
> script, not sure if others behave differently)
>
> My problem is this.  There is a known, reported, bug
> in Ant that prevents the &quot entity from working.
> If you use the &quot entity in a arg value, it gets
> stripped
> off and you end up with no quotes.
>
> A portion of my script is shown below:
>
>       <echo>Deploying EJB JAR file</echo>
>       <exec
> executable="${global.was.dir}/bin/ejbdeploy.bat">
>               <arg value="${ejb.jar.file}"/>
>               <arg value="${global.temp.dir}"/>
>               <arg value="${global.temp.dir}/${ejb.jar.name}"/>
>               <arg value="-cp &quot;c:/mypath&quot;"/>
>               <arg value="-quiet"/>
>       </exec>
>
>
> Unfortunately this does not work, because Ant strips
> off the double quotes that I specifically requested be
> present.
>
> Can anyone either suggest a solution as to how I can
> pass this argument to ejbdeploy?
> or
> tell me when a version of Ant might be released that
> fixes the quotation problem?
>
> Note the quotation bug is in bugzilla as bug #: 5906
>
> Thanks,
> Timothy Fisher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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