[MASSEMBLY-71] Allow an archive base directory that accepts variables

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0, 2.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Assignee: Allan Q. Ramirez
• Reporter: Gary Murphy
• Created: 18/Feb/06 09:06
• Updated: 01/Mar/06 00:54
• Resolved: 01/Mar/06 00:54

Description

Much like the request in MASSEMBLY-40, I wanted to be able to use profile variables in the specification of the location of items to include in the assembly. I also wanted to be able to specify the base directory when constructing the assembly. That is, I was getting:

Archive: commons-bin.zip
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name
-------- ------ ------- ----- ---- ---- ------ ----
0 Stored 0 0% 02-17-06 07:19 00000000 c:/
0 Stored 0 0% 09-24-05 15:47 00000000 c:/home/
0 Stored 0 0% 02-17-06 16:40 00000000 c:/home/glm/
0 Stored 0 0% 11-18-05 09:23 00000000 c:/home/glm/develop/
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.
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21798 Defl:N 19746 9% 02-18-06 08:22 a9ca0394 c:/home/glm/develop/jar/commons-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
-------- ------- — -------
21798 19746 9% 12 files

in the archive, but I wanted:

Archive: commons-bin.zip
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name
-------- ------ ------- ----- ---- ---- ------ ----
0 Stored 0 0% 02-18-06 08:51 00000000 jar/
21798 Defl:N 19745 9% 02-18-06 08:51 1232e35d jar/commons-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
-------- ------- — -------
21798 19745 9% 2 files

I took an approach that achieves both of these goals. I added a archiveBaseDirectory property to the AssemblyMojo that allows the base of the archive to be specified as a parameter as the example shows:

<project>
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.
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<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<configuration>
<descriptor>${basedir}/assembly.xml</descriptor>
<finalName>${artifactId}</finalName>
<archiveBaseDirectory>${buildPath}/${artifactId}</archiveBaseDirectory>
<outputDirectory>${assemblyPath}/assembly/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
<workDirectory>${assemblyPath}/tmp/assembly/${artifactId}</workDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>

.
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</project>

where ${buildpath} comes from my profile:

<profiles>
<profile>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<id>aentendre</id>
<properties>
<buildPath>/home/glm/develop</buildPath>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>

I will attach the patch after I get the JIRA number.