How do I run the IDM Utilities application completely through the command line?

Kyle2595

When trying to run the IDM fileImport utility from the command line, I keep running into the "java.lang.NullPointerException: '-baseUrl' must be specified" error. No matter how I try to specify the baseUrl, it still doesn't like it. The included documentation isn't helpful and I'm not sure of the correct syntax to get the command to run.
I am able to launch the utilities through it's GUI, but I need to be able to do everything 100% through the command line.

Here's the command I'm trying to run:

java -jar -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m --module-path "C:\Program Files\Java\javafx-sdk\lib" --add-modules=javafx.controls,javafx.fxml,javafx.web "C:\Program Files\Java\utilities\Utilities.jar" fileImport -path="C:\Users\username\Desktop\Test_PDFs" -documentType="AP_Invoice" -baseUrl="https://idm.inforcloudsuite.com/ca/client/"

David Peters

Here's one I did with python a couple of years ago:

command = "java -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m --module-path " + JAVA_FX_PATH + " --add-modules=" + JAVA_FX_MODULES + " -jar " + UTILITY_FILE + " bulkImport -authMode OAUTH2 -ionApiConnection " + TARGET_IONAPI_FILE + " -rootDirectory " + IMPORT_PATH + " -documentType " + DOCUMENT_TYPE + " -persistProperties"

- the caps elements are parameters set earlier in the script, so the actual command would look something like:

java -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m --module-path "C:\Program Files\Java\javafx-sdk\lib" --add-modules=javafx.controls,javafx.fxml,javafx.web -jar C:\Program Files\Java\utilities\Utilities.jar bulkImport -authMode OAUTH2 -ionApiConnection "C:\credentials\myprivatecreds.ionapi" -rootDirectory "C:\temp\importdocs" -documentType "MDS_GenericDocuments" -persistProperties

a note - I notice my "-jar" is after heap allocation, module path , and add modules.