SONAR-5408 -Using SONAR_HOME and/or setting it

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/Env.java b/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/Env.java
index 51a6592ad69..dbb947341ec 100644
--- a/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/Env.java
+++ b/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/Env.java
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ class Env {
   private final File confFile;
   private final File homeDir;
 
-  public Env(File homeDir) throws URISyntaxException {
-    this.homeDir = homeDir;
+  public Env(String homeDir) throws URISyntaxException {
+    this.homeDir = new File(homeDir);
     this.confFile = new File(CONF_DIRECTORY+"/sonar.properties");
   }
 
diff --git a/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/StartServer.java b/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/StartServer.java
index b45fec0e273..fa50ff60033 100644
--- a/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/StartServer.java
+++ b/sonar-start/src/main/java/org/sonar/start/StartServer.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package org.sonar.start;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.sonar.process.MonitorService;
@@ -40,6 +41,8 @@ public final class StartServer {
 
   private final static Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(StartServer.class);
 
+  private final static String SONAR_HOME = "SONAR_HOME";
+
   private final Env env;
   private final ExecutorService executor;
   private final MonitorService monitor;
@@ -138,7 +141,15 @@ public final class StartServer {
   }
 
   public static void main(String... args) throws InterruptedException, IOException, URISyntaxException {
-    File home = new File(".");
+
+    String home = System.getenv(SONAR_HOME);
+
+    //Check if we have a SONAR_HOME
+    if (StringUtils.isEmpty(home)) {
+      home = new File(".").getAbsolutePath();
+      System.getenv().put("SONAR_HOME", home);
+    }
+
     new StartServer(new Env(home), args).start();
   }
 }
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