[jira] (MASSEMBLY-681) plugin ignores empty finalName and uses default value

["Paul Millar (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Paul Millar created MASSEMBLY-681:
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             Summary: plugin ignores empty finalName and uses default value
                 Key: MASSEMBLY-681
                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-681
             Project: Maven Assembly Plugin
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.4
            Reporter: Paul Millar
            Priority: Minor


When used in the 'dir' format, I would argue that an empty finalName is reasonable.

For example, I would expect the following configuration, with the 'dir' format, to output the assembled files in ${foo.baseDirectory}

    <configuration>
        <descriptors>
          <descriptor>src/main/assembly/foo.xml</descriptor>
        </descriptors>
        <outputDirectory>${foo.baseDirectory}</outputDirectory>
        <finalName/>
    </configuration>

The actual behaviour is to silently ignore the configured empty finalName and use the default finalName value, which is append this to the outputDirectory.

Arguably there are two bugs here:

    finalName is silently ignored (if this is invalid, it should report an error)

    the empty finalName is not honoured.

Specify '.' as the finalName (<finalName>.</finalName>) seems to work as a work-around, at least for unix-like systems.

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