[jira] Commented: (MNG-3374) Create a common component for files filtering

["Barend Garvelink (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Barend Garvelink commented on MNG-3374:
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I think this is an important improvement. Maven's filtering support is rather limited at the moment (compared to ant) and a centralized component would make it a lot easier to gain some ground. Some of the features I'd (eventually) like to say:

 * Don't constrain placeholders to {{${..}}} syntax, it's a good default but you need to allow any literal to solve some edge cases, for instance, to filter a property where the unfiltered value has to be meaningful, e.g. in an deployment descriptor that's also interpreted by an IDE.
 * To allow XPath-like expressions in the replacement value, e.g. it'd be mighty useful to allow something like {{xpath:/project/dependencies/dependency[artifactId='commons-logging']/version}} as a replacement value.

> Create a common component for files filtering
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-3374
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3374
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Maven Resources Filtering
>    Affects Versions: Reviewed Pending Version Assignment
>            Reporter: Olivier Lamy
>            Assignee: Olivier Lamy
>
> Currently we have some duplicated code in some plugins for filtering.
> This means some plugins use a different logic.
> This component will a common filtering logic for all plugins.

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