[AXIS2-5206] axis2-aar-maven-plugin fails to build aar while using m2e in workspace resolution mode

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.6, 1.6.1
• Component/s: Tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris Gamache
• Created: 01/Dec/11 22:32
• Updated: 28/Feb/16 13:14

Description

First time posting an issue request. Apologies if I'm doing it wrong...

When building in Eclipse using m2e in workspace resolution mode, the axis2-aar-maven-plugin is not prepared for a "dependency" which isn't an assembly but is instead a folder containing the compiled classes from within the local workspace. I propose that if the incoming dependency happens to be a directory that it get packaged up and copied to the destination instead of blowing up with an exception.

(there is no place to attach a patch, so I'll include a code snippet illustrating my idea)

Modifying this function in AbstractAarMojo.java will give the intended result:

private void copyFileIfModified(File source, File destination)
throws IOException {
// TO DO: Remove this method and use the method in WarFileUtils when Maven 2 changes
// to plexus-utils 1.2.
if (destination.lastModified() < source.lastModified()) {
if (source.isDirectory()) {
JarArchiver jarArchiver = new JarArchiver();
try

{ jarArchiver.setDestFile( destination ); jarArchiver.addDirectory( source.getCanonicalFile() ); jarArchiver.createArchive(); }

catch (ArchiverException e)

{ // wrap ArchiverException in IOException throw new IOException(e); }

} else

{ FileUtils.copyFile(source.getCanonicalFile(), destination); // preserve timestamp destination.setLastModified(source.lastModified()); }

}
}