Re: [equinox-dev] JVM arguments passed through launcher command line?

[Ben Abernathy <ben.abernathy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah yes, that was the problem. Thanks for the help Stephan.

Ben

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Stephan Herrmann
<stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> that's why we need the docs :-/
> I remember a discussion to use --launcher.appendVmargs only
> as a toggle, you'd still need -vmargs in addition.
> Also, I'm not sure if all is supported on the command line or whether
> the toggle must occur in the .ini file
> (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=149994#c56 )
>
> Stephan
>
>
> On 05/08/2012 06:57 PM, Ben Abernathy wrote:
>>
>> Stephan,
>>
>> Thank you for the reply. I also found this doc related issue[1].
>>
>> Unfortunately, I am still not able to get the property added to the
>> VM. When I execute the launcher by:
>>
>> application.exe -console --launcher.appendVmargs -Daprop=avalue
>>
>> The original vmargs in the ini are there, but the additional property
>> is not being appended.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=352235
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Stephan Herrmann
>> <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/08/2012 06:25 PM, Ben Abernathy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is launcher.appendVmargs intended to address this by combining command
>>>> line and ini vmargs?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Exactly. See the bug for details.
>>> It seems the documentation for this feature fell through the cracks.
>>> I just filed https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378868
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Stephan
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Stephan Herrmann
>>>> <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I was going to suggest --launcher.appendVmargs to avoid surprises [1],
>>>>> but I can't find it in the docs. What happened?
>>>>>
>>>>> best,
>>>>> Stephan
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=149994
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/08/2012 06:04 PM, Pascal Rapicault wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See -vmargs on
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pascal
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2012-05-08, at 9:01 AM, Ben Abernathy wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask, but here it goes. We
>>>>>>> have an OSGi application built that uses the equinox launcher. I
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> like to be able to pass -D properties via the command line in order
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> aid automated integration testing of our application.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For example, I'm trying to accomplish this:
>>>>>>> application.exe -Dsomeprop=somevalue
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, this doesn't appear to work. Is this not possible or am I
>>>>>>> missing something else? I realize I can declare these properties in
>>>>>>> the launcher ini, but I'd prefer not to do that as I'd have to create
>>>>>>> a new ini for each integration test.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ben
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