I have created issue SHINDIG-1223 about this problem and attached a patch with an improved version of my fix.
Bruce Godden -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Godden [mailto:bruce.god...@oerc.ox.ac.uk] Sent: 06 November 2009 16:08 To: Shindig Developer List Subject: Build failures on Windows Hi, I'm new to this list. I have been trying to build Java Shindig on a Windows machine (yes, sorry about that!) but I hit a build problem. The build fails reporting errors in tests: registerFromFileFeatureXmlFileScheme(org.apache.shindig.gadgets.features.FeatureRegistryTest) registerFromFileFeatureXmlNoScheme(org.apache.shindig.gadgets.features.FeatureRegistryTest) registerFromFileInNestedDirectoryFeatureXmlFile(org.apache.shindig.gadgets.features.FeatureRegistryTest) I have tracked these down to the way that Shindig handles file paths. The tests create some test files or directories then pass the actual paths of these into UriBuilder(). This results in malformed URIs being reported as the path is expected to start with a slash. Also, the way that test XML feature files are constructed using replaceAll() means that the Windows backslash path separators are discard from the URIs inserted into the test files. Sadly this problem is not only in the test code. The FeatureRegistry class does the same sort of thing when searching a directory tree for feature files. I have a slightly unpleasant fix for the problem. I created a function: private static String standardisePath(String path) { path = path.replaceAll("\\\\", "/"); if (path.charAt(0) != '/') { path = "/" + path; } return path; } And passed real file paths through this before creating URIs. (That is at 3 places in FeatureRegistryTest and 1 in FeatureRegistry.) This has fixed my build problem. Should I raise a JIRA issue for this? Bruce Godden VRE Developer Oxford e-Research Centre
