[jira] [Comment Edited] (MRESOURCES-237) Resource plugin's handling of symbolic links changed in 3.0.x, broke existing behavior

["Karl Heinz Marbaise (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Karl Heinz Marbaise edited comment on MRESOURCES-237 at 3/29/18 4:52 PM:
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The simple solution for this is to make a separate module within your project which contains that configuration ( {{/src/test/resources}}; make a test-jar of it ) and make it a dependency (scope:test) to the other modules which is OS independent..works everywhere...
But of course you can make a PR and we take a look at it....


was (Author: khmarbaise):
The simple solution for this is to make a separate module within your project which contains that configuration ( {{/src/test/resources}}; make a test-jar of it ) and make it a dependency (scope:test) to the other modules which is OS independent..works everywhere...

> 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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