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TESTBOX-453: Fix BoxLang CLI runner misreading its own path as a bundle argument #201

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TESTBOX-453: Fix BoxLang CLI runner misreading its own path as a bundle argument #201

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Avoid absolute entry-point path in the BoxLang CLI launcher
claude Aug 29, 2026
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Fix actual root cause: strip runner's own path from CLI positionals
claude Aug 29, 2026
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16 changes: 15 additions & 1 deletion system/runners/BoxLangRunner.bx
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Expand Up @@ -81,7 +81,21 @@ class{
// CLI Incoming variables
var rootPath = server.cli.executionPath
var options = server.cli.parsed.options
var positional = server.cli.parsed.positionals
// `server.cli.parsed.positionals` can include this runner's own script path as its
// first entry (the engine's argv[0]-equivalent), regardless of whether it was invoked
// with a relative or absolute path. Strip it so only genuine user-supplied positional
// arguments (e.g. `run my.bundle`) remain - otherwise every invocation with no bundle
// argument would misread its own path as the bundle to test.
var currentScriptPath = getCurrentTemplatePath()
var invocationDir = Paths.get( rootPath )
var positional = server.cli.parsed.positionals.filter( ( p ) => {
try {
return invocationDir.resolve( p ).toRealPath().toString() != currentScriptPath
} catch( any e ) {
// If the candidate path doesn't exist on disk, it can't be this script - keep it.
return true
}
} )
var defaultReportPath = rootPath & "/tests/results"
var dryRunValue = options[ "dry-run" ] ?: false
var isDryRun = dryRunValue != false && dryRunValue != "false"
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