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Thorsten Glaser commented on MRESOURCES-237:
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“So there should be no need having symlinks inside a jar file”
Exactly. Which is why I require the 2.x behaviour of *following* symlinks
instead of *preserving* them during copy.
However, *other* people wish to have symlinks kept. That’s why I argue in
favour of an option.
“The question is why a shell script is packaged into a WAR file?” I never said
that. (There’s other stuff packaged into a WAR, which makes perfect sense in
our environment though. I can’t disclose details.)
> Resource plugin's handling of symbolic links changed in 3.0.x, broke existing
> behavior
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>
> Key: MRESOURCES-237
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOURCES-237
> Project: Maven Resources Plugin
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
> Environment: Apache Maven 3.3.9
> (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T11:41:47-05:00)
> Java version: 1.8.0_121, vendor: Oracle Corporation
> Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.121-1.b14.fc25.x86_64/jre
> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
> OS name: "linux", version: "4.9.11-200.fc25.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family:
> "unix"
> Reporter: Brian D. Johnson
> Priority: Minor
>
> It looks like the handling of symbolic links in the
> {{maven-resources-plugin}} has changed in version 3.0.x. I'm submitting a
> JIRA because it breaks the previous behavior and I have not been able to find
> this documented anywhere as an intended change.
> *Use case:* Multi-module maven project. We have a custom log4j2
> configuration file we use during testing. Instead of maintaining this file
> in multiple {{src/test/resources}} directories, we instead maintain a single
> copy of the file at the project's root level and create symbolic links from
> each module's {{src/test/resources}} directory to the file using relative
> paths.
> *2.7 Behavior:* the symlink was evaluated and the target file was copied to
> {{target/test-classes/}}.
> *3.0.x Behavior:* the symlink is copied to {{target/test-classes/}} verbatim.
> The symlink's relative path results in the symlink pointing to the wrong
> file location. The log4j2 configuration is not found.
> *Requested Change:* Either revert to the original 2.7 behavior, or document
> the change and provide a configuration parameter to allow the legacy behavior.
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