RFE to re-purpose option --version:<version>

[Paul Benedict]

 No, I haven't considered that. Thank you, Mandy. Good tip. And I see that
file also contains JAVA_FULL_VERSION, whose value is identical to the
-fullversion option output.

Cheers,
Paul

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > However, I would like to propose bringing back the option with a
> different
> > purpose. I would like to use --version:<version> as a validation check. I
> > want Java to execute ONLY if the version specified matches the actual
> > platform version. This would be a wonderful help to scripts that require
> a
> > particular version of the Java platform, and should fail if the
> environment
> > has been accidentally setup with the wrong Java platform version.
> >
> > Examples:
> > java --version:9
> > java --version:9.1
> >
> > AFAICT, the only way to do this now is to execute Java twice. Once to
> pipe
> > --version to some find/grep command and check return code, and then
> execute
> > java again if the check pass. Loading the runtime twice is not optimal,
> > wouldn't you agree? Yet if you agree to this proposal, it would be a big
> > win for script writers, I believe.
>
> Have you considered checking the JAVA_VERSION property in
> $JAVA_HOME/release file?  jlink creates the `release` file containing
> certain properties about the runtime image.
>
> Mandy