[jira] Updated: (CONFIGURATION-252) Detection of absolute fileNames when configuration sources are defined in a JAR file

["Heiko Seebach (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-252?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Heiko Seebach updated CONFIGURATION-252:
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    Attachment: support-for-jar-protocol.patch.txt

Simply apply this patch on org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationUtils

> Detection of absolute fileNames when configuration sources are defined in a JAR file
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>
>                 Key: CONFIGURATION-252
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-252
>             Project: Commons Configuration
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.3
>         Environment: Linux
>            Reporter: Heiko Seebach
>         Attachments: support-for-jar-protocol.patch.txt
>
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> When using several configuration sources, the sources are defined in a an xml attribute like 
> fileName="usergui.properties"
> The method org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationUtils.getFile(String basePath, String fileName) converts the basePath and fileName into a File.
> The JavaDoc says: "The parameter strings can be relative files, absolute files and URLs as well."
> The file containing the definition of the configuration sources will become the basePath of this method.
> After a log of debugging I found, that if the basePath start with "jar:" the method assumes that the fileName is relative, evene if it's absolute. This happens, because there's a ProtocolHandler for Jar files and "jar:" is a valid protocol. So the statement "new URL(new URL(basePath), fileName)" doesn't throw a MalformedUrlException.
> Since the URL is valid, it's never checked, if the fileName may be absolute. 
> Attention: this is only the case on Unix/Linux, since this is a valid URL
> jar:file:/C:/myjar.jar!/my-config.xml/someprops.properties
> while under Windows, a MalformedUrlException will be thrown, when the fileName is absolute: 
> jar:file:/C:/myjar.jar!/my-config.xml/c:/someprops.properties
> I attached a patch that checks, whether the URL protocol is "jar" and the fileName is absolute. If so, the absolute file will be used.

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