Paul Milliken created MSHARED-417: ------------------------------------- Summary: Infinite loop when loading self-referencing properties Key: MSHARED-417 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-417 Project: Maven Shared Components Issue Type: Bug Components: maven-filtering Affects Versions: maven-filtering-1.3 Environment: Maven 3.2.5. Maven-filtering-1.3. Reporter: Paul Milliken
I've recently encountered a situation in which maven-resources-plugin would hang indefinitely when using resource filtering. I've managed to track it down to the loadPropertyFile and getPropertyValue methods in PropertyUtils. getPropertyValue appears to have some protection against a property referring to itself. So, the following properties file loads fine: {code} test=${test} test2=${test2} {code} With the value of the "test" property ending up as "${test}". However, if you load the following properties file: {code} test=${test2} test2=${test2} {code} then getPropertyValue seems to get stuck in a loop attempting to resolve the property. In our case, this was encountered as a result of a misconfiguration (our filters.properties is being generated based on a number of sources, and something was configured incorrectly). Causing the Maven process to hang indefinitely (while using 100% of a CPU core) isn't ideal behaviour. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)