I found the fix.
I need to use
https://github.com/groovy/GMavenPlus/wiki/Examples#execute-scripts
properties which somehow do not have this problem.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 6:13 PM Fred Eisele <fredrick.eis...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I have a situation where I am using a code generator which reads text
> generated from the pom.xml file.
> The problem is that the code generator is written in groovy which does not
> like '\' in the file path.
> The current line of code is...
> ```maven
> def file = new File("${project.basedir}/src/main/javascript/gremlin-
> javascript/package.json")
>
> ```
> which gets converted and processed by the groovy based generator resulting
> in...
> ```text
> Script1.groovy: 3: unexpected char: '\' @ line 3, column 24.
> def file = new
> File("C:\Users\me\tp-x\gremlin-javascript/src/main/javascript/gremlin-javascript/package.json")
> ```
> This is part of an Apache open source
> project.https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/53503bfa28ba1de061204fb96835dee856576bbf/gremlin-javascript/pom.xml#L126I
> want to know how to best manipulate the project.basedir value so as not to
> have a path that groovy does not like.
>
>
