I want to run a java class with args supplied as a file.
On shell, i can do
java SomeClass < 1.txt
Is there any equivalent for this on intellij and/or gradle.
I tried on IntelliJ IDEA -> edit configurations. But, the argument is not getting passed.
IntelliJ IDEA doesn't support it at the moment:
- IDEA-88717 No way to configure STDIN reading from a file at Run/Debug configurations
You can adjust the code so that it accepts the file name as a parameter and opens it for reading. Or you can create a wrapper class that will redefine System.in
, then start your original Main
class:
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public class MainWrapper {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(new File("1.txt"));
System.setIn(is);
Main.main(args);
}
}
Make sure to either specify the full path to the file or to change the working directory in IntelliJ IDEA Run/Debug configuration to the location of 1.txt
.
Now you can run MainWrapper
class instead of the Main
class and it will work the same as running
java Main < 1.txt
If you need to test with different file names, replace new File("1.txt")
with args[0]
and pass the file name in the MainWrapper
Run/Debug configuration Program arguments field.
You can actually do that now, starting from version 2018.3:
- Select "Run/Debug configurations"
- Set path to input file at "Redirect input from" field
The < 1.txt
syntax mean that the command processor ensures that standard input (System.in
in Java) provides the contents of the 1.txt file. The typical Java launcher do not support this.
You can emulate this by manually rewire System.in
to read from the file using your own Java snippet to do this.