Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin

Chris, I haven't used the assembly plugin before so forgive me if this is a a dumb question but is there any reason why you can't use standard resource filtering?

http://maven.apache.org/maven-model/maven.html#class_resource

That's what I asked myself and then I tried it out ... didn't work out without hacking that plugin. Please see MRESOURCES-8.

Some people think it shouldn't be part of the maven-resource-filtering, some people think. I think it should be doable with either plugin

By the way, I'm not talking about Java resources here, but rather other files (e.g. README.TXT, release notes, etc.) which can go into a distribution archive. The copying and filtering in this case is part of the phase "package" and the "resources" can come from various source directories.

Chris

not sure why this is not working, could you send in a sample descriptor file?

Surely I can, but I have nothing in my descriptor regarding filtering. I don't see any docs describing anything about filtering, and the descriptor doesn't really tell me anything either. Can you indicate to me what to do in the descriptor regarding filtering?

agreed, this is an issue when creating distributions for various environments. We're currently working around it by having multiple file sets with the tweaks already in them and a profile per environment to specify which set to grab. Since only 2-4 lines in the files change, this is obviously inefficient, especially when the files need a sweeping change.

just tested the resource filtering and it is working fine with me. can you attach your use case?

ok.. finally reproduce it, files placed in src/main/resources does get filtered in the bundled jar but outside of it doesnt

added new tag ("<filtered>") in assembly descriptor for FileItem which will filter
the file and add the filtered file to the assembly.

<files>
<file>
<source>README.TXT</source>
<filtered>true</filtered>
</file>
</files>

Fabulous. Thanks for the clarification.

The assembly descriptor documentation (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly.html) says that it's possible to filter fileSets:

<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<directory/>
<lineEnding/>
<filtered/>
<useStrictFiltering/>
<useDefaultExcludes/>
<outputDirectory/>
<includes/>
<excludes/>
<fileMode/>
<directoryMode/>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
<files>
<file>
<source/>
<outputDirectory/>
<destName/>
<fileMode/>
<lineEnding/>
<filtered/>
</file>
</files>

but it doesn't work with version 2.2-beta1. Could you fix it? I would prefer that you fix the code more than the doc

See Christophe Domas comment

Arnaud - did it work in 2.1? We should create a new issue rather than reopening something in an already released version.

re-closing for the original fix. See MASSEMBLY-154 for the addition to filterSet (patch included).