InstallAnywhere Tutorial and Reference Guide

Executing External Scripts and Executables via Custom Code Action

Here is a simple custom code action that allows you to extract the exit code and output produced when executing a command or target file during install time.

 package com.zerog.ia.customcode.actions; import com.zerog.ia.api.pub.*; import java.net.*; import java.io.*; public class EnhancedExecuteTargetFile extends CustomCodeAction { public void install(InstallerProxy ip) throws InstallException { try { String fileToExecute = ip.substitute("$FILE_TO_EXECUTE$"); String executeString = ""; if(fileToExecute.endsWith(".sh") || fileToExecute.endsWith(".bin")) { System.err.println("Shell script found - using /bin/sh"); executeString = "/bin/sh "+fileToExecute; } else { executeString = ...