Merge pull request #224 from danielgronberg/danielgronbergmaster

RTC-2648: Added arguments for allowing multi instance and custom data dir

README.md

@@ -64,4 +64,6 @@ In order to achieve those goals Symphony is participating and working in close c
 - Remote logging is enabled for local and production cases and are sent to the backend server via the remote objects
 
 ## Misc notes
-If desiring to run against server without proper cert use cmd line option: --ignore-certificate-errors
+- If desiring to run against server without proper cert use cmd line option: --ignore-certificate-errors
+- To start additional instance with custom data directory (if you want seperate user) use cmd line options: --multiInstance --userDataPath=<path to data dir>
+  - if directory doesn't exist, it will be created 

js/main.js

@@ -66,8 +66,10 @@ const shouldQuit = app.makeSingleInstance((argv) => {
     processProtocolAction(argv);
 });
 
-// quit if another instance is already running, ignore for dev env
-if (!isDevEnv && shouldQuit) {
+let allowMultiInstance = getCmdLineArg(process.argv, '--multiInstance', true) || isDevEnv;
+
+// quit if another instance is already running, ignore for dev env or if app was started with multiInstance flag
+if (!allowMultiInstance && shouldQuit) {
     app.quit();
 }
 
@@ -155,6 +157,12 @@ function setupThenOpenMainWindow() {
     // allows installer to launch app and set appropriate global / user config params.
     let hasInstallFlag = getCmdLineArg(process.argv, '--install', true);
     let perUserInstall = getCmdLineArg(process.argv, '--peruser', true);
+    let customDataArg = getCmdLineArg(process.argv, '--userDataPath=', false);
+    
+    if (customDataArg && customDataArg.split('=').length > 1) {
+        let customDataFolder = customDataArg.split('=')[1]; 
+        app.setPath('userData', customDataFolder);
+    }
     if (!isMac && hasInstallFlag) {
         getConfigField('launchOnStartup')
             .then(setStartup)