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/* * Copyright (c) 2013-2014, Kasra Faghihi, All rights reserved. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 3.0 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library. */ package com.offbynull.portmapper.common; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Timer; import java.util.TimerTask; import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean; import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils; import org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate; /** * Utility class to help with {@link Process}s. * @author Kasra Faghihi */ public final class ProcessUtils { private ProcessUtils() { // } /** * Run a process and dump the stdout stream to a string. * @param timeout maximum amount of time the process can take to run * @param command command * @param args arguments * @return stdout from the process dumped to a string * @throws IOException if the process encounters an error * @throws NullPointerException if any arguments are {@code null} or contains {@code null} * @throws IllegalArgumentException any numeric argument is negative */ public static String runProcessAndDumpOutput(long timeout, String command, String... args) throws IOException { Validate.notNull(command); Validate.noNullElements(args); Validate.inclusiveBetween(0L, Long.MAX_VALUE, timeout); String[] pbCmd = new String[args.length + 1]; pbCmd[0] = command; System.arraycopy(args, 0, pbCmd, 1, args.length); ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(pbCmd); final AtomicBoolean failedFlag = new AtomicBoolean(); Timer timer = new Timer("Process timeout timer", true); Process proc = null; try { proc = builder.start(); final Process finalProc = proc; timer.schedule(new TimerTask() { @Override public void run() { failedFlag.set(true); finalProc.destroy(); } }, timeout); String ret = IOUtils.toString(proc.getInputStream()); if (failedFlag.get()) { throw new IOException("Process failed"); } return ret; } finally { if (proc != null) { proc.destroy(); } timer.cancel(); timer.purge(); } } }