[jira] Commented: (MDEP-260) \ causes an exception

["Sergei Ivanov (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-260?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=218809#action_218809 ] 

Sergei Ivanov commented on MDEP-260:
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Damn, even Jira cannot escape strings properly. There was a double backslash in the second example.
Anyway, the problem is due to regular expression replacement string not being properly escaped, and backslash has a special meaning there (see javadoc on java.lang.String#replaceAll() ).

Please consider the attached patch (against 2.1 release) that resolves the problem.

> <fileSeparator>\</fileSeparator> causes an exception
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MDEP-260
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-260
>             Project: Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: build-classpath
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>            Reporter: Sergei Ivanov
>            Assignee: Brian Fox
>         Attachments: file_separator.patch
>
>
> If I specify the following property in the plugin configuration:
> <fileSeparator>\</fileSeparator>
> then the plugin crashes with an exception because a regex parser fails internally.
> It appears that the property needs to be escaped like this:
> <fileSeparator>\\</fileSeparator>
> The plugin should take care of escaping the property itself.

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