[GROOVY-2313] add ant like file matching logic for the groovy-starter.conf file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-rc-3
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Jochen Theodorou
• Created: 16/Nov/07 07:50
• Updated: 16/Nov/07 07:57
• Resolved: 16/Nov/07 07:57

Description

currently if a "*" is used as for example in

load ${groovy.home}/lib/*.jar

the starter code will look for a .jar file in any subdirectory of ${groovy.home}/lib. This causes match IO activity and will cause higher startup times. If I want to extend my search to subdirectories in Ant, then I use the "**" expression. Projected to our configuration file this means it would look like this

load ${groovy.home}/lib/**/*.jar

With this the user has better control over if he wants to match a subdirectory as well or not.