[MENFORCER-83] Banned dependencies should support regular expressions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.3
• Component/s: Standard Rules
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Eric Lewis
• Created: 19/Aug/09 03:26
• Updated: 02/Dec/13 03:46
• Resolved: 04/Jun/13 16:47

Description

The includes and excludes of the bannedDependencies rule support wildcards, but only for an entire section.

They should be enhanced to support regular expressions.

For instance instead of having

<includes>
  <include>my.company:abc-api</include>
  <include>my.company:def-api</include>
  <include>my.company:ghi-api</include>
  <include>my.company:jkl-api</include>
</includes>

one would specify

<includes>
  <include>my.company:.*-api</include>
</includes>

To be compatible, the wildcard '*' would be treated as regular expression '.*'

Issue Links

• is related to: MENFORCER-167 Documented '*' feature of banned dependencies doesn't work