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Gabriele Columbro commented on SUREFIRE-545:
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Any comments?
Bad bad bad ? :)
> Enable custom JAR and resource loading in Surefire classpath
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> Key: SUREFIRE-545
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-545
> Project: Maven Surefire
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: classloading
> Affects Versions: 2.4.3
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Gabriele Columbro
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: SurefireResourceLoading.diff
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> There are situations in which you would want to add to surefire classpath an
> arbitrary resourceSet to have your tests running properly.
> To clarify, there are cases in which maven transitive dependency management
> cannot be enough for having your classpath populated properly, cases in which
> not even the <additionalClasspathElement> of surefire can be enough, unless
> you pollute your pom with a huge numer of <additionalClasspathElement> lines
> (tough to write and maintain).
> Maybe an example can clarify the situation:
> if you're working with a legacy Webapp, say a WAR built with Ant, that has
> no POM, but you want to use Maven features to improve testing and to provide
> a standard approach to lifecycle management. You'd like be able to test in
> isolation (outside of a container) against the webapp classpath, but while
> WEB-INF/classes can be loaded with <additionalClasspathElement>, you'd name
> each and every JAR in the WEB-INF/lib to have the classpath properly populate.
> This is infact my case when trying to support Alfresco ECM [1] testing with
> my maven archetypes [2].
> So, after playing around with Java6 classpath wildcard loading [3] (which
> seems not to be honored by surefire), I wrote this little patch which adds to
> surefire a new configuration parameter:
> <resources>
> <resource>
> ....
> </resource>
> </resources>
> which allows to load arbitrary resources in the surefire classpath, using the
> usual directory/include/exclude format supported by the Maven
> DirectoryScanner. This solves my problems as now I can happily load the
> Alfresco's WEB-INF/lib/*.jar resourceSet.
> It does not check for duplicates so it's left to the developer to check it
> the maven transitive classpath clashes with the added resources (as this
> should be discouraged, I think it should stay like this).
> I understand this should be discouraged, but I could not find a way to work
> this around (until Alfresco release his POM [4]) in the current surefire
> setup.
> WDYT? Shall I write a test case or you think is never going to make it to the
> trunk? ;)
> [1] http://www.alfresco.com/
> [2] http://repository.sourcesense.com/maven2-sites/maven-alfresco-archetypes
> [3] http://www.javabeat.net/qna/90-adding-jars-to-the-classpath/
> [4] https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1090
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