How to get newlines in classpath for JMSProvider using wsadmin

Question

I want to create a JMSProvider object with a custom classpath. Here's how I'm doing it in jython:

... classpath = "a.jar:b.jar:c.jar".replace(":", "\n") properties = [ ['name', name], ['description', description], ['classpath', classpath], ['externalInitialContextFactory', externalInitialContextFactory], ['externalProviderURL', externalProviderURL], ['nativepath',[]], ['supportsASF','true'] ] AdminConfig.create('JMSProvider', node, properties) AdminConfig.save()

The JMSProvider is created, but the classpath variable has the newlines escaped:

a.jar\nb.jar\nc.jar

How can I tell wsadmin to not escape the newlines?

Answer 1

Whilst the WAS admin console (the web page) requires you to enter the classpath with newlines, the wsadmin tool requires that it be separated by the host O/S file separator. So there is no need to modify the input string at all.

classpath = "a.jar;b.jar;c.jar"

Will work just fine.

Answer 2

"\n" is a real newline.

Compare repr(classpath) immediately after classpath.replace() with the repr(classpath) that JMSProvider sees they should be the same.