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PONant, SqlCmd -v switch and spaces in nant property fails build with invalid argument
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    copied!<p>I have a nant script that ... 1. takes the content of disc-file 2. assigns that content to a nant property 3. and then calls sqlcmd with a -v passing in that property containg the content of the disc file 4. inside the sql script the contents of the file should be used by a stored proc. </p> <p>The problem is that when the content of the file contains a space the nant build stops with a "Invalid argument" issue</p> <p>Anone know a way around this ?</p> <p>The top part of the nant script is ...</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;!-- the main name of this project --&gt; &lt;project name="Hops" default="all"&gt; &lt;!-- BuildHistory --&gt; &lt;property name="buildHistoryContents" value="" /&gt; &lt;xmlpeek xpath="/" file="BuildNotes.xml" property="buildHistoryContents"&gt;&lt;/xmlpeek&gt; &lt;!-- &lt;echo message="${buildHistoryContents}" /&gt; --&gt; &lt;!-- ***************** --&gt; &lt;target name="ExecSql"&gt; &lt;echo message="running sql script : ${SqlBuildScriptsDir}${sqlBuildFileName}" /&gt; &lt;exec program="${SqlCmd}" commandline="-S ${SqlServerInstanceName} -E -d HBus -i ${SqlBuildScriptsDir}${sqlBuildFileName} -v vSchemaVersion=${buildHistoryContents} " /&gt; &lt;/target&gt; </code></pre> <p>The sql script contains the line ...</p> <pre><code>exec lsp_SchemaVersionUpsert '1.4', N'$(vSchemaVersion)' </code></pre> <p>A disc file content that works is ...</p> <pre><code>&lt;BuildNotes&gt; &lt;Note&gt; &lt;buildVer&gt;HasNotSpace&lt;/buildVer&gt; &lt;/Note&gt; &lt;/BuildNotes&gt; </code></pre> <p>A disc file content that does not works is ...</p> <pre><code>&lt;BuildNotes&gt; &lt;Note&gt; &lt;buildVer&gt;Has Space&lt;/buildVer&gt; &lt;/Note&gt; &lt;/BuildNotes&gt; </code></pre> <p>The use of all this is pass xml build comments to a table logging version build history for the db schema.</p> <p>Does anyone know an alternate method or know a way through this ?</p> <p>The next part, added after Phillip Keeley correcty solved first part (the <em>SPACE Problem</em>) I simplified the original task to simplify the question.</p> <p>There is also a <em>Quoted Attribute Problem</em> ; xml quoted attributes cause the nant build to fail with "Invalid Argument".</p> <p>eg this will cause nant to choke but removing the dt attribute will enable the nant build to succeed ...</p> <pre><code>&lt;BuildNotes&gt; &lt;Note&gt; &lt;buildVer&gt;1.4&lt;/buildVer&gt; &lt;dateStarted&gt;09/24/2009 11:25:42&lt;/dateStarted&gt; &lt;Item dt="20091008" &gt;SpacesAndNoQuotedAttribute&lt;/Item&gt; &lt;/Note&gt; &lt;/BuildNotes&gt; </code></pre> <p>Any ideas ... ?</p>
 

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