/**
* Calling this function causes the selected application to launch.
*
* @return {@code true} in case launching the application was successful
*/
@SuppressWarnings("nls")
public boolean launch(
@Nonnull final Collection<File> classpath, @Nonnull final String startupClass) {
final String classPathString = buildClassPathString(classpath);
Iterable<Path> executablePaths;
if (OSDetection.isMacOSX()) {
executablePaths = new MacOsXJavaExecutableIterable();
} else {
executablePaths = new JavaExecutableIterable();
}
for (Path executable : executablePaths) {
if (isJavaExecutableWorking(executable)) {
final List<String> callList = new ArrayList<>();
callList.add(escapePath(executable.toString()));
callList.add("-classpath");
callList.add(classPathString);
if (snapshot) {
callList.add("-Dillarion.server=devserver");
}
callList.add(startupClass);
printCallList(callList);
if (launchCallList(callList)) {
return true;
} else {
LOGGER.error("Error while launching application: {}" + errorData);
}
}
}
return false;
}
/**
* This small utility function takes care for escaping a path. This operation is platform
* dependent so the result will differ on different platforms.
*
* @param orgPath the original plain path
* @return the escaped path
*/
private static String escapePath(@Nonnull final String orgPath) {
if (OSDetection.isWindows()) {
if (orgPath.contains(" ")) {
return '"' + orgPath + '"';
}
return orgPath;
}
return orgPath.replace(" ", "\\ ");
}