[IVY-909] Error messages on use of relative paths can be cyrptic

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-RC1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-RC2
• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Andy Seaborne
• Created: 17/Sep/08 09:55
• Updated: 21/Oct/08 22:02
• Resolved: 23/Sep/08 19:57

Description

Use of a relatrive path (file system resolver, keyfile for sftp) results in a message like:

BUILD FAILED
c:\home\afs\Projects\TDB\build-lib.xml:357: impossible to configure ivy:settings with given file: c:\home\afs\Projects\TDB\ivysettings.xml : java.text.ParseException: failed to load settings from file:/c:/home/afs/Projects/TDB/ivysettings.xml: impossible to convert /home/afs/.ssh/ivy-pub-jena-key to class java.io.File for setting keyFile on class org.apache.ivy.plugins.resolver.SFTPResolver

A more direct statement that "keyFile=" is realtive would be helpful

(in the example, this is MS Windows - an absolute file name must have a drive letter).