Variable replacement is not Windows compliant

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Original issue created by Clement Mathieu on 28, Jan 2008 at 11:47 AM – PROACTIVE-222

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Starting the hello example on a Windows machine leads to the following error.
Everything is fine on linux

Fabien can you check why this error occurs ?

Do you want to use a (1)local or (2)remote descriptor file ? Simplest is local :
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“D:\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin\java.exe” -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.polic
y=“C:\Documents and Settings\cmathieu\workspace\trunk\scripts\windows….\scri
pts\proactive.java.policy” -Dlog4j.configuration=file:“C:\Documents and Settings
\cmathieu\workspace\trunk\scripts\windows….\scripts\proactive-log4j” -Dgcmdf
ile=helloDeploymentLocal.xml org.objectweb.proactive.examples.hello.Hello “C:\Do
cuments and Settings\cmathieu\workspace\trunk\scripts\windows….\descriptors\
helloApplication.xml”
Error on line 27 of :
FORX0004: Invalid replacement string in replace(): \ character must be followed by \ or $
Invalid replacement string in replace(): \ character must be followed by \ or $

problem when evaluating variables with document C:\Documents and Settings\cmathieu\workspace\trunk\descriptors\helloApplication.xml – Invalid replacement string in replace(): \ character must be followed by \ or $
GCM Application Descriptor cannot be created
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: problem when evaluating variables with document C:\Documents and Settings\cmathieu\workspace\trunk\descriptors\helloApplication.xml
at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.GCMApplication.GCMApplicationParserImpl.(GCMApplicationParserImpl.java:133)
at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.GCMApplication.GCMApplicationParserImpl.(GCMApplicationParserImpl.java:101)
at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.GCMApplication.GCMApplicationDescriptorImpl.(GCMApplicationDescriptorImpl.java:129)
at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.API.getGCMApplicationDescriptor(API.java:49)
at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.API.getGCMApplicationDescriptor(API.java:44)
at org.objectweb.proactive.examples.hello.Hello.main(Hello.java:84)
Caused by: net.sf.saxon.trans.DynamicError: Invalid replacement string in replace(): \ character must be followed by \ or $
at net.sf.saxon.expr.Expression.dynamicError(Expression.java:780)
at net.sf.saxon.functions.Replace.evaluateItem(Replace.java:81)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionTool.evaluate(ExpressionTool.java:361)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.evaluateArguments(UserFunctionCall.java:363)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.callFunction(UserFunctionCall.java:310)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.iterate(UserFunctionCall.java:299)

```
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleContentConstructor.evaluateItem(SimpleContentConstructor.java:225)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ValueOf.evaluateItem(ValueOf.java:216)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleNodeConstructor.iterate(SimpleNodeConstructor.java:195)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Choose.iterate(Choose.java:415)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionTool.evaluate(ExpressionTool.java:370)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.UserFunction.call(UserFunction.java:253)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.callFunction(UserFunctionCall.java:321)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.iterate(UserFunctionCall.java:299)

at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleContentConstructor.evaluateItem(SimpleContentConstructor.java:225) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ValueOf.evaluateItem(ValueOf.java:216) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleNodeConstructor.iterate(SimpleNodeConstructor.java:195) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Choose.iterate(Choose.java:415) at net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionTool.evaluate(ExpressionTool.java:370) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.UserFunction.call(UserFunction.java:253) at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.callFunction(UserFunctionCall.java:321) at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.iterate(UserFunctionCall.java:299) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleContentConstructor.evaluateItem(SimpleContentConstructor.java:225) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleNodeConstructor.expandChildren(SimpleNodeConstructor.java:150) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ComputedAttribute.processLeavingTail(ComputedAttribute.java:302) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Template.applyLeavingTail(Template.java:98) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.applyTemplates(ApplyTemplates.java:317) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.apply(ApplyTemplates.java:187) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.process(ApplyTemplates.java:147) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ElementCreator.processLeavingTail(ElementCreator.java:240) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Copy.processLeavingTail(Copy.java:152) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Template.applyLeavingTail(Template.java:98) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.applyTemplates(ApplyTemplates.java:317) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates$ApplyTemplatesPackage.processLeavingTail(ApplyTemplates.java:486) at net.sf.saxon.Controller.transformDocument(Controller.java:1710) at net.sf.saxon.Controller.transform(Controller.java:1513) at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.environment.EnvironmentTransformer.transform(EnvironmentTransformer.java:51) at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.environment.Environment.replaceVariables(Environment.java:42) at org.objectweb.proactive.extra.gcmdeployment.GCMApplication.GCMApplicationParserImpl.(GCMApplicationParserImpl.java:121) … 5 more

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; SystemID: ; Line#: 27; Column#: -1
; SystemID: ; Line#: 27; Column#: -1
net.sf.saxon.trans.DynamicError: Invalid replacement string in replace(): \ character must be followed by \ or $
at net.sf.saxon.expr.Expression.dynamicError(Expression.java:780)
at net.sf.saxon.functions.Replace.evaluateItem(Replace.java:81)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionTool.evaluate(ExpressionTool.java:361)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.evaluateArguments(UserFunctionCall.java:363)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.callFunction(UserFunctionCall.java:310)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.iterate(UserFunctionCall.java:299)

```
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleContentConstructor.evaluateItem(SimpleContentConstructor.java:225)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ValueOf.evaluateItem(ValueOf.java:216)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleNodeConstructor.iterate(SimpleNodeConstructor.java:195)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Choose.iterate(Choose.java:415)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.ExpressionTool.evaluate(ExpressionTool.java:370)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.UserFunction.call(UserFunction.java:253)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.callFunction(UserFunctionCall.java:321)
at net.sf.saxon.expr.UserFunctionCall.iterate(UserFunctionCall.java:299)

at net.sf.saxon.instruct.SimpleContentConstructor.evaluateItem(SimpleContentConstructor.java:225) at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ValueOf.evaluateItem(ValueOf.java:216)

```

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To reproduce it you just have to start scripts/windows/hello.bat

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Original comment posted by Cédric Dalmasso on 26, Mar 2008 at 16:11 PM

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no relation with GCM components :)