[MASSEMBLY-803] Add file name mapping option when extracting dependencies

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: dependencySet, moduleSet
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Plamen Totev
• Created: 06/Apr/16 19:35
• Updated: 28/Nov/23 23:32

Description

Hi,

Currently when using dependencySets with unpack set to true, there is no way to set the output file names mapping. As plexus-io supports file names mapping, I think it will be relatively easy to add such option.

Consider the following scenario. You want to distribute tomcat as part of your product. You could add something like that;

  <dependencySets>
    <dependencySet>
      <includes>
        <include>org.apache.tomcat:tomcat:8.0.33:zip</include>
      </includes>
      <unpack>true</unpack>
    </dependencySet>
  </dependencySets>

So far so good. But the zip archive contains apache-tomcat-8.0.33 as root folder.What if I want to distribute it under tomcat? There is no way(AFAIK) to just extract sub folder of the archive. Of course there is <excludes> tag but the matched files will be still under apache-tomcat-8.0.33/...

The use of FileMapper for example may strip the root folder (the RegExpFileMapper seems like a perfect candidate).

What do you think about such feature?

p.s. Not quite sure where is the proper place to discuss such improvements requests - here or in the mailing list. So excuse me if this is not the proper place.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MASSEMBLY-863 Add ability to set outputDirectory in unpackOptions