Setting grails proxy username with special \ character causes error - grails

Question

Our firm uses a corporate proxy with a username in the following form domainName\username . When I try to add the proxy from command line using add-proxy command.
The exception I get is:
Error WARNING: Error configuring proxy settings: startup failed:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\.grails\ProxySettings.groovy: 1: unexpected cha
r: '\' # line 1, column 94.
8080", "http.proxyUser":"company\username"
What is the workaround for this? I tried manually editing the ProxySettings.groovy file, but same error is thrown on startup.
[UPDATE] I tried with Grails 2.0.0 RC3 but still unable to connect.

Answer 1

It looks like you have ran into a grails bug, when domain is used in the proxy configuration: http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-7387. The work-around is to configure the proxy within the BuildConfig.groovy (kind of manually). Add the following to the existing company\username:
grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "host");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "port");
Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication("company\\username","password".toCharArray());
}
});
[rest of code]
}
This way there shouldn't be problems with the backslash.