Maven 2 & 3

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.9
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0, 3.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories, Inheritance and Interpolation
• Labels:

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If people currently need a URL to their project base directory or any file within, they need to write {{file://$\{basedir}}/}}. The problem about this approach is that it doesn't deliver a RFC-compliant URL since characters are not properly percent-encoded. Also, the exact number of slashes between file: and {{${basedir}}} depends on the OS (e.g. file:///C:/user/ and file:///home/user, Unix paths have a leading slash by themselves, Windows not). This makes it currently impossible to configure plugins that expect a URL as input and do strict URL parsing.

For this reason, I suggest to support an additional property {{${baseurl}}} with the value

baseurl = new File( basedir ).toURI().toString()

for POM interpolation.

Some day, when Maven/Wagon itself handle percent-encoded file: URLs correctly (WAGON-111), this property could also be used to define local deployment repos like we commonly use for testing.

• Assignee:

  Brett Porter

  Reporter:

  Benjamin Bentmann

• Created:

  21/Sep/08 10:55 AM

  Updated:

  23/Mar/09 9:59 AM

  Resolved:

  04/Feb/09 4:52 AM