Manage AzureAD through Java-CodePudding

I'm making a java project, and part of it's functionality is managing some parts of an Azure Active Directory. This is an issue, in that some features of powershell 5 don't function correctly for what I'm doing, and pwsh.exe doesn't seem to read correctly. I've copied the exact same command I put in the java file, ran it raw in powershell, worked. Ran through Java, failed.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String arg = "Install-Module -Name AzureAD; Import-Module AzureAD -UseWindowsPowerShell; Connect-AzureAD -Credential (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential (\"{INSERTUSERNAMEHERE}\", (ConvertTo-SecureString \"{INSERTPASSWORDHERE}\" -AsPlainText -Force)))";
        //System.out.println(arg);
        try {
            PowerShell.run(arg);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
//******************************************************
public class PowerShell {
    public static String run(String param) throws IOException {
        String command = "pwsh.exe -command "   param;
        Process powerShellProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
        powerShellProcess.getOutputStream().close();
        String line;
        System.out.println("Standard Output:");
        BufferedReader stdout = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(powerShellProcess.getInputStream()));
        while ((line =stdout.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        stdout.close();
        System.out.println("Standard Error:");
        BufferedReader stderr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(powerShellProcess.getErrorStream()));
        while ((line = stderr.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        stderr.close();
        System.out.println("Done");
        try {
            System.out.println("Press any key to exit");
            System.in.read();
        }
        catch(IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return command;
    }
    
}

When ran in powershell 7, the log in succeeds to the AzureCloud.

Account                Environment TenantId                             TenantDomain                AccountTyp
                                                                                                               e
-------                ----------- --------                             ------------                ----------
{USERNAME}             AzureCloud  ########-####-####-####-############ {DOMAIN}.com

When ran in Java, it returns this.

Standard Output:
Standard Error:
ParserError:
Line |
   1 |  . t.Automation.PSCredential ({USERNAME}, (Conver .
     |                                         ~
     | Missing argument in parameter list.

Done
Press any key to exit

it doesn't make sense that it only works in actual powershell and not when I tell it to run commands through pwsh.exe

CodePudding user response：

This appears to be happening because some of the backslashes used to escape quotes in the string are being removed before the final command-line arguments are being passed.

You should be able to fix this by changing this line:

String arg = "Install-Module -Name AzureAD; Import-Module AzureAD -UseWindowsPowerShell; Connect-AzureAD -Credential (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential (\"{INSERTUSERNAMEHERE}\", (ConvertTo-SecureString \"{INSERTPASSWORDHERE}\" -AsPlainText -Force)))";

to the below (assuming you're using an up to date version of the JDK that supports Text Blocks)

String arg = """
    Install-Module -Name AzureAD; Import-Module AzureAD-UseWindowsPowerShell; Connect-AzureAD -Credential (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential (\\"{INSERTUSERNAMEHERE}\\", (ConvertTo-SecureString \\"{INSERTPASSWORDHERE}\\" -AsPlainText -Force)))
""";

If the version of Java you're using doesn't support text blocks, then you can change that line to this (although it doesn't look as good in my opinion):

String arg = "Install-Module -Name AzureAD; Import-Module AzureAD -UseWindowsPowerShell; Connect-AzureAD -Credential (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential (\\\"{INSERTUSERNAMEHERE}\\\", (ConvertTo-SecureString \\\"{INSERTPASSWORDHERE}\\\" -AsPlainText -Force)))";