Fixed test failure in windows ie, `testEcho()` method

[Kshitiz-Mhto]

part of fixing #104

[fahad-israr]

Didn't get u here. Thought issue was around some text formatting? What was the actual isssue acc to you? How does using a process builder instead of process executor fix it?

[Kshitiz-Mhto]

i thought the same first, that issue is causing due to some text formatting in windows. But using ProcessExecutor to run external command in my windows machine i am getting such error msg:

<testcase name="testEcho" classname="dev.starfix.StarfixTest" time="0.563">
    <error message="Could not execute [echo, This is some random String that I want to Echo]. Error=2, The system cannot find the file specified" type="org.zeroturnaround.exec.ProcessInitException">org.zeroturnaround.exec.ProcessInitException: Could not execute [echo, This is some random String that I want to Echo]. Error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
    at dev.starfix.StarfixTest.testEcho(StarfixTest.java:42)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "echo": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
    at dev.starfix.StarfixTest.testEcho(StarfixTest.java:42)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
    at dev.starfix.StarfixTest.testEcho(StarfixTest.java:42)
</error>

the error is indicating it isnot able to find or execute the executable echo executable in windows.

so i went for the alternative choice using ProcessBuilder to run external command and it worked fine...

[fahad-israr]

can u plz try figuring out what's the issue with ProcessExecutor here? we should have a very valid reason when discarding ProcessExecutor and moving to ProcessBuilder imo .

[Kshitiz-Mhto]

can u plz try figuring out what's the issue with ProcessExecutor here? we should have a very valid reason when discarding ProcessExecutor and moving to ProcessBuilder imo .

no problem, i m going to figure this out.

[Kshitiz-Mhto]

@fahad-israr done 👍. I fixed it using ProcessExecutor. just one doubt, why we are using 3rd party library ProcessExecutor other than using built in library ProcessBuilder class for performing simpler task like for echo command? Is there specific reason to it?

[fahad-israr]

• The function public static String runCommand(Path directory, String... command) referred here is a central function used to execute all of the commands not just echo, example: gitClone(), ide_launcher .
• ZT ProcessExecutor is smooth and easy for handling/consuming stdout/sterr properly. Infact there are more modern libraries that can be more helpful to us and better than ZT Process Executor like JProc and Fluent Process.
• Look at the code example for similar tasks here : https://ongres.com/blog/java-processes-and-streams/

[maxandersen]

Zut process executor is afaik still the best around when it comes to manage the handling of input and output streams.

It takes care of the threads currently today required to be used to get output and empty/close the streams.

Which you need to do especially on windows where a process won't even execute if you don't continuously empty the stream.