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Capturing standard output from JavaTcl Interp

I am running third party TCL functions with Java using the JavaTCL library. I want to capture what is being sent to standard out for commands such as:

import tcl.lang.Interp;
import tcl.lang.TclException;

public class Temp {

public Interp tclInterp;

public static void main() {
tclInterp = new Interp;
tclInterp.eval("LoadConfig xxx.cfg");
}
}

I've tried redirecting the standard out to something like a ByteArrayOutputStream, however, that only captures what is specifically send to System.out from the program, it does not capture what is being sent to standard out from the command "tclInterp.eval("LoadConfig xxx.cfg");".

For example, if I do something like:

ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
System.setOut(new PrintStream(out));
tclInterp.eval("LoadConfig xxx.cfg");
System.out.println("temp");
String collected = new String(out.toByteArray());

the string "collected" will only contain "temp".

Anyone have any ideas?

mccarl

Can you post some example output of that Tcl command that you are trying to capture? Also, I don't have a lot of experience with Tcl, what does LoadConfig do?

I ask because what you have done *should* capture what you want. The above info may help me to work out how JavaTcl is outputting data so that I can help you to capture it.

jksung

ASKER

LoadConfig is just part of a third party TCL API provided to us, it could be any TCL function.
Some sample output to standard out would be:

Attempting to load configuration xxx on host Server1.
Loading IP Configuration...
Configuration has been exported.

If I run code such as:
PrintStream orgStream = System.out;
            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            System.setOut(new PrintStream(out));

            tclInterp.eval(VarUtils.executeHCMDCommandString + cmd);

            System.out.println("temp");
            String collected = new String(out.toByteArray());
            System.setOut(orgStream);
            System.out.println("temp2");

Output would be:
Attempting to load configuration xxx on host Server1.
Loading IP Configuration...
Configuration has been exported.
temp2

And the contents of the string "collected" would only be:
temp

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jksung

ASKER

Thanks, the problem was I have to redirect the stream before instantiating the Interp object. Thanks so much for your help!

mccarl

Not a problem, I'm glad that I was able to assist, especially since it was a pretty obscure issue!