[IVY-888] Ivy Publish Task Fails When XML Comments Exist Next to Dependency Declarations

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-RC1
• Component/s: Ant

Environment

Java 5.0, Eclipse 3.3.2, Ant 1.7.0

• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Julian Klein
• Created: 29/Aug/08 21:37
• Updated: 02/Sep/08 07:59
• Resolved: 01/Sep/08 21:54

Description

When I have a dependency declared on the same line as a XML comment I receive the following error when attempting to call ivy:publish:

"RuntimeException: bad ivy file in cache"

Upon reviewing the generated "resolved descriptor" the line that causes this error looks like the following (see spring-aop line):

<!-- Middleware - Spring Application Framework -->
<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-core" rev="2.0.+" conf="runtime->default"/><!-- Core Module -->
<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-jms" rev="2.0.+" conf="runtime->default;compile->*"/><!-- JMS Module -->
<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-aop" rev="2.0.+" conf="runtime->default"<!-- AOP Module -->>

the source ivy.xml file that generated this erroneous output contains a line as follows:

<!-- Middleware - Spring Application Framework -->
<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-core" rev="2.0.+" conf="runtime->default"/><!-- Core Module -->
<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-jms" rev="2.0.+" conf="runtime->default;compile->*"/><!-- JMS Module -->
<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-aop" rev="2.0.+" conf="runtime->default"><!-- AOP Module -->

Now I am not sure if it is because of the XML comments or the greater than brackets inside the conf attributes. Moving the comments to different lines resolves the issue. Ivy tells me to clean my cache in order to resolve the issue, but this doesn't resolve the problem. Without the ivy publish task being used, everything else works fine (resolve/retrieve).