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detecting Java version from Bash

Submitted by eed3si9n on Fri, 02/16/2018 - 02:05
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Yesterday I wrote about cross JVM testing using Travis CI.

testing Scala apps on macOS using Travis CI

Here's how we can test Scala apps on macOS using Travis CI. This is adapted from Lars and Muuki's method: Testing Scala programs with Travis CI on OS X

dist: trusty
 
language: scala
 
matrix:
  include:
    ## build using JDK 8, test using JDK 8
    - script:
        - sbt universal:packageBin
        - cd citest && ./test.sh
      jdk: oraclejdk8
 
    ## build using JDK 8, test using JDK 8, on macOS
    - script:
        - sbt universal:packageBin
        - cd citest && ./test.sh
      ## https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/2316
      language: java
      os: osx
      osx_image: xcode9.2
 
    ## build using JDK 8, test using JDK 9
    - script:
        - sbt universal:packageBin
        - jdk_switcher use oraclejdk9
        - cd citest && ./test.sh
      jdk: oraclejdk8
 
    ## build using JDK 8, test using JDK 10
    - script:
        - sbt universal:packageBin
        - citest/install-jdk10.sh
        - cd citest && ./test.sh
      jdk: oraclejdk8
 
scala:
  - 2.10.7
 
before_install:
  # https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/8408
  - unset _JAVA_OPTIONS
  - if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "osx" ]]; then
      brew update;
      brew install sbt;
    fi
 
cache:
  directories:
    - $HOME/.ivy2/cache
    - $HOME/.sbt/boot
 
before_cache:
  - find $HOME/.ivy2 -name "ivydata-*.properties" -delete
  - find $HOME/.sbt  -name "*.lock"               -delete

Normally you'd write jdk: oraclejdk8 at the top level, but since the macOS image does not have the jdk_switcher script travis/travis#2317, we need to add to all entries in the matrix except for the osx one.

What motivated me to work this out is running into a sed difference between macOS and Linux. macOS uses an old BSD version of sed that does not support regular expressions like ?.

detecting java version

To workaround this, I wrote a bash function that returns the JDK version.

#!/bin/bash
 
# returns the JDK version.
# 8 for 1.8.0_nn, 9 for 9-ea etc, and "no_java" for undetected
jdk_version() {
  local result
  local java_cmd
  if [[ -n $(type -p java) ]]
  then
    java_cmd=java
  elif [[ (-n "$JAVA_HOME") && (-x "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java") ]]
  then
    java_cmd="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
  fi
  local IFS=$'\n'
  # remove \r for Cygwin
  local lines=$("$java_cmd" -Xms32M -Xmx32M -version 2>&1 | tr '\r' '\n')
  if [[ -z $java_cmd ]]
  then
    result=no_java
  else
    for line in $lines; do
      if [[ (-z $result) && ($line = *"version \""*) ]]
      then
        local ver=$(echo $line | sed -e 's/.*version "\(.*\)"\(.*\)/\1/; 1q')
        # on macOS, sed doesn't support '?'
        if [[ $ver = "1."* ]]
        then
          result=$(echo $ver | sed -e 's/1\.\([0-9]*\)\(.*\)/\1/; 1q')
        else
          result=$(echo $ver | sed -e 's/\([0-9]*\)\(.*\)/\1/; 1q')
        fi
      fi
    done
  fi
  echo "$result"
}
 
v="$(jdk_version)"
echo $v

This returns single integer 8 for Java version 1.8.0_nn, and 9 for Java 9. Recent versions of Java contains weird string in its version like "9-Debian" and "10" 2018-03-20, and this tries to handle them as much as possible.