Delany created MSHARED-995:
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Summary: documentation
Key: MSHARED-995
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-995
Project: Maven Shared Components
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: maven-filtering
Reporter: Delany
There's basically no documentation on the pattern matching used to filter
resources. The filter component documentation reads like dev documentation, and
I'm left to trail-and-error to figure it out. Adding to the confusion is that
Maven plugins can implement their own pattern matching/strain of regex. I think
the assembly plugin does its own thing. Its frustrating enough when regex
doesn't match so can I at least be clear on the algorithm.
For example, I want to set a more specific filter to copy resources. The
filename may have anywhere between 1 and 5 characters followed by an extension.
I tried five question marks, but that only matches 5 characters not 4.
{code:java}
<include>?????.changelog</include>
{code}
There's no support for something like
{code:java}
<include>?{1,5}.changelog</include>
{code}
I see double asterisk in some patterns, suggesting globbing. Can this be
stated? Perhaps at one point it was obvious - it may seem too simple to bother
with. But the Internet is full of alternatives today and a simple write-up will
save a lot of guess-work for newbies and those of us with bad memory.
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