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Tibor Digana updated SUREFIRE-1250: ----------------------------------- Fix Version/s: 2.19.2 > Regex testcase filtering: exception when hashmark is regex-quoted > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SUREFIRE-1250 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1250 > Project: Maven Surefire > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Maven Surefire Plugin > Affects Versions: 2.19.1 > Reporter: Zoltan Haindrich > Assignee: Tibor Digana > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.19.2 > > Attachments: SUREFIRE-1250.patch > > > i've been using regex to select which tests to run...and i've got some wierd > exceptions when executing > {code} > mvn test "-Dtest=%regex[.*\Q#\E.*]" > {code} > executing the above command results in: > {code} > java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: > Illegal/unsupported escape sequence near index 1 > \E.* > ^ > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:364) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeWithRerun(JUnit4Provider.java:274) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:238) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:161) > {code} > i noticed earlier that maven might do some black-magic with these regexps in > the background ( i know that it should know the class name earlier; to avoid > starting testcases which will get entirely excluded...and thats cool ) > ...so..i assume maven does split the regex by the {{#}}; and that's okay - if > that can't be avoided; place some pointers in the documentation about it > and/or a more descriptive exception could be useful -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)