import java.io.InputStreamReader;
/**
* Environment class simulates the System.getenv() method which is deprecated
* on java 1.4.2
*
* @author v-josp
*
*/
public class TestRoot
{
//result of all enviornment variables
private static BufferedReader commandResult;
static
{
String cmd = null;
String os = null;
//getting the OS name
os = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
// according to OS set the command to execute
if(os.startsWith("windows"))
{
cmd = "cmd /c SET";
}
else
{
cmd="env";
}
try
{
//execute the command and get the result in the form of InputStream
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
//parse the InputStream data
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream());
commandResult= new BufferedReader(isr);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("OSEnvironment.class error: " + cmd + ":" + e);
}
}
/**
* This method is used to get the path of the given enviornment variable. This
* method tries to simulates the System.getenv() which is deprecated on java 1.4.2
*
* @param String - name of the environment variable
* @param String - default value
* @return
*/
public static String getenv(String envName,String defaultValue)
{
String line = null;
try
{
while ((line = commandResult.readLine()) != null)
{
if(line.indexOf(envName)>-1)
{
return line.substring(line.indexOf(envName)+envName.length()+1);
}
}
return defaultValue;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return defaultValue;
}
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println(TestRoot.getenv("CLASSPATH",""));
}
}
Output
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F:\software\javaws-1_2-dev\jnlp.jar;
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File currDir = new File (".");
System.out.println("Dir: " + currDir.getCanonicalPath());
}
catch (IOException ex){
//
}
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