I haven’t tried it, but what about a pattern like ‘dot[.]branch’? The ‘.’ is then part of a character set match. If it works (and as a regex it should) this allows for the use of regex patterns as part of ‘dot’ and ‘branch’.
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 1:15 am, Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Looking at the Ivy code, it appears that it's using a exactOrRegex matcher > (by default) for matching the org/module/branch values and it's considering > the . within the branch value as a regex and that causes weirdness. I just > ran a test to see if using something like "dot\.branch" (notice the escape > character) would help. It doesn't. > > The only way I can think of getting past this issue is by setting the > "matcher" attribute on that task to be "exact". Remember though that, that > value will apply to all attributes (org, module and branch), so you will be > expected to provide exact value for those attributes: > > <ivy:rereport organisation="apache" module="log4j" branch="dot.branch" > matcher="exact"/> > > > -Jaikiran > > On Saturday 03 December 2016 01:59 AM, Gabriel Soto wrote: >> I ran some tests with debug enabled and I notice some differences in the >> logs. >> >> As an example, calling: >> *<ivy:repreport organisation="Apache" module="log4j" >> branch="plain_branch"/>* >> >> logs: >> ... >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 resources >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 urls >> [ivy:repreport] 0 matched >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j\ivy-plain_branch-[revision].xml >> [ivy:repreport] maggie do not support transaction. ivy pattern does not use >> revision as a directory >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 resources >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 urls >> [ivy:repreport] 0 matched >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j\[artifact]-plain_branch >> -[revision].jar >> ... >> >> But calling: >> *<ivy:repreport organisation="Apache" module="log4j" branch="dot.branch"/>* >> >> logs: >> ... >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 resources >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 urls >> [ivy:repreport] 0 matched >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j\ivy-[branch]-[revision].xml >> [ivy:repreport] maggie do not support transaction. ivy pattern does not use >> revision as a directory >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] using maggie to list all in >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 resources >> [ivy:repreport] found 18 urls >> [ivy:repreport] 0 matched >> \\192.168.0.1\root\ivyrep\dist\Apache\log4j\[artifact]-[branch] >> -[revision].jar >> ... >> >> Neither branch exists but notice how in the second case the branch name >> isn't replaced on the pattern. >> That seems to be related to my problem, since I'm getting matches on plain >> branch names and no matches on the ones that contain one or more dot >> characters. >> >> Any ideas? I'll gladly run any additional tests. >> >> Thank you, >> Gabriel >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Marc De Boeck <mdeb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Since branches often refer to versions or releases, it is not unusual that >>> they contain dots in their names. >>> We also have dots in the name of our branches and don't have any problems >>> with it. >>> Maybe you can execute your repreport with debugging enabled ? >>> >>> Regards >>> Marc >>> >>> >>> 2016-12-02 16:54 GMT+01:00 Gabriel Soto <gabs...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I'm calling a basic repreport for a module on my local repo: >>>> >>>> <ivy:repreport >>>> todir="${out.dir}" >>>> xml="true" >>>> organisation="${ivy.organisation}" >>>> module="${ivy.module}" >>>> branch="${ivy.branch}"/> >>>> >>>> Most of the time, the task behaves as expected but every time the branch >>>> contains a '.' it outputs an empty report (the same behavior as if the >>>> branch didn't exist). >>>> >>>> Does this limitation make sense? >>>> May I be hitting a bug? >>>> Is it a bad idea to use dots in branch names? >>>> >>>> I'm using Ivy 2.4.0. >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> Gabriel >>>> > — Peter West p...@pbw.id.au “Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give your rest.”