Launching and stopping appium server programmtically

It perfectly closes child processes. As you can see, there is a process tree and when cmd.exe (with PID 6320) get closed - all child processes get closed as well

As I understood from the image you shared, you are starting a new JVM inside the original one. That's why when you call the destroy function, the Java process and all of its child processes are destroyed. In my case, I was starting the Appium server from the original JVM which means that all of its spawned processes won't be destroyed until the original Java JVM terminates.

P.S: I am running more than one server instance simultaneously and I can't wait to clear up memory at the end when the JVM terminates.

Parent java process from the screenshot above - is IDE:-)
Just test run via "mvn test" command-line and got the same result: all processes closed perfectly!

Looks like it's working with the destry method and there is no need to taskill the process .... I am not sure why it wasn't working with me when I tried it?
Anyway, I will give it another try. Thanks

Try using

command.addArgument("argument", false);

@Hassan_Radi : Still getting the same error.
I am using Appium version : 1.3.1 (Ophiuchus)

below is my entire code-
public static void main(String[] args) throws ExecuteException, IOException {
CommandLine command = new CommandLine("/bin/sh");
command.addArgument("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node");
command.addArgument("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js");
command.addArgument("--address");
command.addArgument("127.0.0.1");
command.addArgument("--port");
command.addArgument("4723");
command.addArgument("--no-reset");
command.addArgument("--log");
command.addArgument("argument", false);
DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
executor.setExitValue(1);
executor.execute(command, resultHandler);
}

I saw this line in your post,
"command.addArgument("/c");"
what does it do exactly ?

By that, I didn't mean adding it explicity ... I meant to convert each line that uses addArgument function and make it take an argument and a false value .

for example:

command.addArgument("--address");

should be

command.addArgument("--address", false);

@Hassan_Radi: LOL !!

But still getting the same error, do you think its because of any device incompatibility ?
Because all I get in searching internet about this is 32-bit vs 64-bit issues only.

OS X : Version 10.8.5
Appium version : 1.3.1 (Ophiuchus)

It might be due to compatibility issues as it's working fine with me...

I am running below code pn my mac no error but appium is not started as well.
Where as if i involve from terminal this command : /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4723 --no-reset --local-timezone

code::

CommandLine command = new CommandLine("/bin/sh -c");
command.addArgument("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node",false);
command.addArgument("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js",false);
command.addArgument("--address",false);
command.addArgument("127.0.0.1");
command.addArgument("--port",false);
command.addArgument("4723");
command.addArgument("--no-reset",false);
command.addArgument("--log");
DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
executor.setExitValue(1);
try {
executor.execute(command, resultHandler);
} catch (ExecuteException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

I guess I missed "-c" while invoking CommandLine. Its not showing the error, but like @Sachin_Chauhan on running the code nothing is happening.

I am using code at 10.10.1 with java 1.7

on windows with windows format command its working. But on mac its doing nothing not even error. Now I am stuck. I appreciate if someone guide me, what I am doing wrong?

As soon as I removed -c, this exception started coming
/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node: /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node: cannot execute binary file

I left the hope with command line. Now I am using process builder and its working ok.

List list = new ArrayList();
list.add("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node");
list.add("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js");
list.add("--address");
list.add("127.0.0.1");
list.add("--port");
list.add("4723");
list.add("--no-reset");
// create the process builder
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(list);
try {
pb.start();
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}

I just tried with CommandLine and it worked after I changed:

CommandLine command = new CommandLine("/bin/sh -c");
command.addArgument("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node",false);

to be:

CommandLine command = new CommandLine("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node");

I am not sure what has changed since the last time, but it's working now without invoking the shell app.

Give it a try and let me know how it works.

@BeforeMethod
public void setUp() throws Exception {
	
	Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/bin/bash export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64/sdk/");
	
	CommandLine command = new CommandLine("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node");
	command.addArgument("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js", false);
	command.addArgument("--address", false);
	command.addArgument("127.0.0.1");
	command.addArgument("--port", false);
	command.addArgument("4723");
	command.addArgument("--no-reset", false);
	DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
	DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
	executor.setExitValue(1);
	executor.execute(command, resultHandler);
	
	DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
	capabilities.setCapability("appium-version", "1.0");
	capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "iOS");
	capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "7.1");
	capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "iPhone 6 Plus");
	capabilities.setCapability("app", "/Users/Prithivi/Documents/Sample.app");
	
	driver = new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
	driver.findElement(By.name("Continue")).click();

This works for me very well...

Note: I used java-client-1.3.0.jar, in latest version AppiumDriver was changed into interface.